Technology

Cooking and Tech Tips on a Friday

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Happy Friday! I hope you are doing well, dear readers. I had a lovely post planned on a discussion on the effects of “More Product, Less Process” on finding aids, but then it turned gloomy and cold outside and my brain got a little cloudy too (actually it’s my sinuses, but that seems to affect brain function, too). Anyway, I’ll save that post for another day. Today I want to share some fun articles that you can pass along to your friends, family, and patrons on food and more awesome Google labs because it’s Friday, and a Friday should be fun.

Sometimes I just seem to accumulate random posts in my favorites section and then after a couple of weeks they come together in a coherent, thematic whole. Don’t ask me how this happens; it just does. Anyway, this time it was centered around food posts. I love this article on How Cooking Gave Me Purpose. (A summary version can be found on Lifehacker.) It’s a great look at cooking and how much fun it can be, especially when you get to cook with others.

However, if you are cooking for others, you’ll want to check out Foodily. It will help you find recipes that will satisfy picky eaters, who won’t eat certain foods, and help find recipes for people who can’t eat certain foods because of allergies. Also, most recipe websites have fairly well-developed search engines that will help you find recipes to satisfy even the pickiest eater. If you’re on a mobile, one of my favorite apps is from Epicurious. It has a super-fun user interface and some very yummy recipes (it’s a Lifehacker Download f the Day, too).

Finally, in the realm of food, check out This is Lifehacker: Episode 9, which is all about food.

In tech news, check out these two articles on more great Google Labs to try out for: Google Chrome and Google Maps.

That’s all from me for today. I hope you have a lovely rest of your day, a fantastic weekend (hopefully you’ll get some sunshine), time to read some fun stuff, and I’ll be back next week with more archives, libraries, and tech news. Allons-y!

End of the Term Tech Hits

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Happy Wednesday! I hope your day is going well. We are in the penultimate week of classes at my university and, as per usual, the stress levels are rising along with everyone’s workload. So today I just have a few quick technology links to hopefully make your life a little easier.

First, something to share with anyone trying to make pretty diagrams to put in their final exam paper: diagram.ly. It’s a great little, intuitive, free diagramming website. Much easier to use than trying to wrestle with Word or something similar.

Also, in the realm of extremely helpful and useful are these two lists from Lifehacker of Google lab features to enable in: Gmail and Google Calendar. Google may be taking over the world, but we can take comfort in the fact that their lab features are fantastic. (Yes, that was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t check out the features and even use some of them.)

Finally, if you are like most people and summer makes you want to get out of the office and out in the world traveling, check out the 5 best cheap travel booking sites. Then, pack your suitcases and have a fantastic break.

And something fun to end: check out this trailer for the first season of Sherlock. I’ve finally been able to watch it and it is fantastic. Definitely check it out if you need a break and like clever, beautifully written and filmed mysteries.

Have a great rest of your day and do something fun. I’m hoping to be back on Friday with some thoughts from my recent research trip on the nature of communities and archives. Allons-y!

Librarians, students, and the Future

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Happy Wednesday, dear readers! I hope you are having a lovely day. I can hardly believe we are to the middle of another week and I’m off on another research trip to the archives. So today, I just want to talk a bit about some of the stuff buzzing around the bibliosphere right now and leave you with some tasty recipes for your tea breaks.

So if you have been hanging around the blogosphere at all this week, you’ve probably already read Seth Godin’s, Future of the Library article. And hopefully you’ve also read the very well-written and balanced response by Agnostic, Maybe. I just have a few comments to make about Godin’s article that will hopefully not duplicate everything that’s already been written and why I think it is just as important for academic librarians to pay attention to what Godin wrote as it is for public librarians.

Yes, of course, Godin got some stuff about librarians and libraries wrong (in my opinion). Libraries are still needed, freely accessible resources are definitely needed, and the digital divide is still a real problem. But on the whole, Godin got it correct and some of his misconceptions about libraries can be chalked up to the failure of librarians and the library profession in general in marketing our services and resources.

Now some librarians do an excellent job in outreach and marketing efforts, but on the whole, we obviously don’t do enough. If we did, Godin (along with the majority of people) would realize that libraries subscribe to many online resources and databases that have the ability to blow Wikipedia out of the water and are able to make researching more efficient and effective. It’s not that we don’t have the resources, it’s that we don’t make people aware of them. I see this in my own library and in classes I teach where the instructor will tell me after that s/he had no idea we offered so much or could help in so many ways.

This ties into my last post about caring. We have to demonstrate that we care about our users and market our services, resources, and general awesomeness as librarians in ways that our users, be they a public library user or an undergrad in an academic library, find relevant. We are the awesome teachers, info curators, guides, and sages that Godin says we are and can be, but we need others to “get it.”

So instead of saying how Godin got it wrong, let’s use his post as a call to (more) action. He got some parts wrong, but so do most writers and people. His main message, that we need to use our talents to connect people with information to create value is right on the mark. I think that having people honestly write what they think about the future of the library and librarians is fantastic, especially by people outside of the profession. This makes us take a hard look at what we’re doing right and what we can improve on if we read such articles with an open mind and with an open heart looking towards improving ourselves and services instead of being defensive when obviously our message as librarians is not as clear, or as powerful, as some of us believe it to be. We need to become, in Godin’s words, a purple cow–something remarkable. I’m working everyday to make my work and interactions with people remarkable, are you?

Okay, that’s my two cents.

I just wanted to share one link from Lifehacker today on how clean up your digital life and manage information overload. Great article as always. Share it with your library users. They’ll thank you.

And finally, for some tasty fun, check out Joy the Baker’s post on love and sugar recipes. These are fabulous and, if all else fails in your marketing campaign for the awesomeness of librarians, bake ’em cookies. Everyone is a fan of cookies.

Have a great rest of your day, help someone out, read something lovely, and I’ll be back on Friday with some tech stuff to share with your friends (family, library users, students, etc.). Allons-y!

Study Break Time

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Happy Wednesday! So if you work in the land of academia and you’re on the semester system, you’ve probably just endured (or are about to endure) the end of the semester craziness. If you’re on the quarter system (like my institution), you’re still in the middle of the term and students are instead going a bit crazy over studying for midterms and the like. Either way, I thought we could all use a quick study break today. So share these links with those students (colleagues, friends, and family members) who you think could benefit from them.

First, check out Lifehacker’s wonderful article on the top 10 fixes for annoying web problems. We can always count on Lifehacker to share some useful advice.

Also from Lifehacker is this very useful article with tips on ending sleep problems. I don’t know about you, but I definitely know a few students (and librarians and archivists) who could use some more sleep. In addition to the tips in the article, I’ll share my friend’s advice that you should also try yoga (it works, really).

Finally, you should really check out this article on a guy who has an augmented reality tattoo. Then check out the video of the tattoo below. It’s both crazy and cool.

Have a wonderful rest of your day and I’ll be back on Friday with some reflections on the preservation workshop I was at earlier this week along with some thoughts on other issues facing libraries and archives. Allons-y!

Lee Rainie: Libraries as Social Networks

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Happy Friday! I hope your having a lovely day, dear readers. I’m at BayNet’s Annual Meeting today and the keynote speaker is Lee Rainie, the Director of the Pew Internet Project. I’m super-excited. So on with the summary blogging!

Pew Internet Project is funded to do primary research and then write up reports. No agenda, no policies on Net Neutrality, etc.. Hope is that by producing useful data that Pew Internet Reports will be interesting to people. Considers librarians as one of the primary groups for the reports and data. [Rainie said to not Tweckle him. Really don’t tweckle anyone, it’s not nice.]

Talking about the rise of networked individuals (co-author Barry Wellman, University of Toronto). New social operating systems: networked individualism. Can see libraries as networked nodes. The world is a networked world and the networks are large. Social networks are more influential now than ever because of the stresses of information overload, etc.. Turn to networks for news, assessments/evaluations, and as a audience. Social networks are bigger, more segmented, and more diverse than in the past. It is easier to find and maintain relationships via many-to-many online communication tools. Social networks are more vivid and tied to creation of information/media. More conscious about how networks fit together and how we can create content for network building.

New kinds of communities now. There is an explosion of group activity and group niches. There are groups for everything and group niches are becoming narrower. Rise of social posses: grab a cause and pursue it with their networks. Advent of just-in-time, just-like-me, peer-to-peer (support) groups, especially in the medical field (like the talk at Personal Digital Archiving Conference). Able to find people who understand your circumstances online. Fifth Estate of content contributors: different sensibilities, more passionate, more personal, and tell stories differently than mass media= new media culture.

Librarians are attuned to networking and finding solutions, so this should mean we are at the forefront on using and optimizing social networks. Librarians are teachers and content creators. Social networking is a new way of looking at networking and leveraging librarian skills in new ways.

Q&A Break

  • Are you going to talk about youth and social networks?
    A. Sure, but the most interesting and fastest growing demographic now isn’t youth. Fastest growing segment on social networks is those over 50 years old now.
  • Aren’t librarians really just content aggregators?
    A. Librarians are both content aggregators and content creators. [Nice to see lots of hands when asked about who was tweeting the talk.]
  • A. What happens if people can’t find information online?
    A. If people can’t find something online, they create it. And mostly, people are super-helpful if you ask your network a question. [I can totally second that–whenever I ask a question on Twitter I always get kind and helpful answers]
  • Differences between Fourth and Fifth Estates?
    A. Still norms and narratives followed by Fourth Estate, while in Fifth Estate it is still quirky, personal, partisan sensibility.

Revolution 1: Internet and Broadband
46% of adults were using Internet in 2000 on first Pew Internet Survey. Now 79% use Internet (2011). 93% of teenagers are now online. Internet user population grew up until 2006 in adult world.

Asked about broadband adoption. 66% of Americans now have broadband at home. Become very Internet users when more people got broadband, instead of dial-up. People could now create content, find things more easily, and encouraged people to participate. Internet solutions then became primary in people’s workflows.

Higher socioeconomic status people are more likely to be online: household income of %75,000, college degree, parent with minor child at home, married or living with partner, employed full time. Negative correlations: having high school degree or less, over 65+, prefers speaking Spanish, disabled, African-American.

Consequences for the information ecosystem: huge volume of information, high velocity, more vibrant environments online, and easier to set up filters to get relevant information. Lots of work and teaching now based around gaming. Lots more content creation. About 2/3 of American adults are content creators, includes social networking site users, sharing photos, blogging, etc.. 14% of adults blog and 12% use Twitter. Don’t know how to ask about using geo-location services on the survey yet, get responses from 4-17%. Location is now become more important because of smartphones.

Big challenge for libraries: collections are disrupted BUT there are also opportunities. People still like books and now want more technology, too. Libraries do a unique and special job in solving some problems. For example, bridging the digital divide by providing access to Internet connections and computers. Librarians are teaching people how to leverage social medial.

There is more that librarians can do (of course). Non-users of online technologies say that relevance and digital literacy are primary factors for not going online. We can help with the digital literacy issues and show people that there are relevant sources for them online (like news sites, health information, government information, etc.). Go information literacy instruction!

Revolution 2: Wireless Connectivity
Because of lack of time: take home: the wireless revolution was really important. [I’m not kidding, we’re running out of time, so we’re skipping over a lot]
57% of adults now use mobile internet. 35% have apps on their phones and 24% actually use apps.

Revolution 3: Social Networking
Social networking population is more diverse than you might think. Fastest growing cohort is those over 50 years old. For many youth, Facebook is their dashboards. FoMo: Fear of Missing Out (Rainie heard this new term at SXSW) So this is one reason people feel the need of always being connected and are not comfortable with being alone.

Librarians now have to share the stage with amateur experts because of social networks and the ease of content creation and sharing. Now we need to have influence in order to maintain our authority in this networked world. [I still think we need experts, but we need new skills in order to have our expertise matter.]

Practical Questions to Ponder

  • What’s the franchise vs. commodity? What’s the aggregation play?
    Do what you do best and link to the rest.
  • What’s the social networking play? What alliances can we strike to do distributed versions of our mission? What’s the word-of-mouth, viral play?
  • What’s the mobile play? How do we understand and exploit real-time informatin with our patrons?
  • What’s the gift economy play? What’s the API play? What can we pry loose that others can exploit? What feedback do we want from our stakeholders?
  • What’s the definition of success that is based on outcomes not outputs? How do we measure it?

Take Home Message
Go librarians! We do a lot, but can of course do more to help people use social networking tools online. Need spaces to be connected and collaborate with others, but also need reflective, quiet spaces. We need to ask ourselves hard questions and find innovative ways to do our work. Let’s, in Seth Godin’s words, create Purple Cows!

Note: Rainie’s talk was taped and should be available via BayNet sometime soon.

Have a fantastic rest of your day and a lovely weekend. I’ll be back next week with more tech, library, and archives news and notes. Thank you, dear readers, for reading. Allons-y!

Visualizations

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Happy Friday! Can you believe that we are at the end of another work week? Time just speeds up in spring term. Anyway, today I wanted to share some interesting, pretty, and useful links about visualizations. So let’s get to the links and get you on your way to enjoying the weekend.

As so much information is conveyed in visual ways (as opposed to strictly textual), it behooves one to study good graphic designs and practice designing things. Today’s post is dedicated to a bunch of recent links coming over the feeds. (Plus, I just love design and can’t seem to go more than a few weeks without doing a post that is about, at least in part, design. Speaking of which, thanks to litbrarian to letting me know about fab.com which has a ton of design inspiration. If you want access, you can go here to request an invite as it is still in pre-launch phase.)

Okay, so getting to the actual links, if you want to create a website you should head on over to Lifehacker’s complete guide on how to make a website. Aren’t Lifehacker Night Classes just a bunch of fun? Plus, they are a friendly way to get one’s feet wet in record time and actually acquire some usable skills.

Who hasn’t heard of infographics? It is the buzzword in design lately. But before you go wild with infographics, check out Blue Glass’ post on diagnosing infographic bipolarity and learn some tips to making your infographics stand out, in a good way.

And no post about visualizations and graphics would be complete without a nod to Photoshop. So check out Gizmodo’s 10 quick and easy Photoshop tips. Don’t let Photoshop intimidate you. Just start playing with it and you’ll get the hang of creating awesome graphics and touching up photos in no time.

Oh, and while not strictly about visualization, check out the good news of new features of goo.gl. I really like goo.gl for link shortening, the statistics, and the QR Code generation.

Now moving on to some visualizations of food, or rather, some yummy recipes to try for your weekend and some awesome photos to look at while stuff is baking. As it is still wintry in a lot of the Northern Hemisphere, I suggest making some of Joy the Baker’s cheddar black pepper biscuits. They taste fantastic with a fried egg. And for dessert, I’d suggest chocolate bundt cake. I know people who don’t really like cake and they like this one. Also, If you love tea, you should check out the wonderful photographs of processing black tea from the National Anthropological Archives. Then go boil some water and have a cuppa.

Finally, I have to leave you with something cool to watch, so enjoy watching Festo’s Aqua Ray swim (really, it’s awesome):

Have a wonderful rest of your day, a lovely weekend, and I’ll be back next week with more thoughts on tech, archives, and libraries. Allons-y!

Happy Stuff for a Friday!

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Happy Friday, dear readers! Today I’m taking my lovely friend Hanna’s idea of sharing fun stuff on Friday. I have many ideas for longer blog posts percolating in my head, but as I’m still neck-deep in transcribing interviews for my research, they are all pretty jumbled at the moment. I promise more coherent thoughts on libraries, archives, and technology next week. But for today, let’s get to some interesting news and fun stuff for the weekend.

First, some tech tips to share with others. If somehow you missed National Backup Day last week, check out Lifehacker’s guide on how to set up an automated, bulletproof file backup solution. Also, check out this nice article on how to rip, watch, and organize everything. Plus, for Gmail users, definitely go over to the Gmail Blog to find out about some really awesome fixes that have been rolled out. Finally, check out this article on extending your phone or laptop battery life.

Now on to the fun for the weekend. I’ve been having people over to my place for dinner a lot lately, so I’ve been cooking way more than usual. I think a lot of people start thinking about having people over when the weather gets better and we all come out of hibernation. So if you are like me and need some inspiration for dinner, I can’t recommend highly enough Joy the Baker. Don’t be misguided by the name, even though Joy does a lot of baking, she also has fabulous savory recipes. This last week the big hits in my house were her baked curry sweet potato fries and goat cheese biscuits. So go make something yummy this weekend.

And to end, enjoy a short break with Simon’s Cat in Cat Chat:

Have a wonderful rest of your day, a relaxing weekend, and I’ll be back next week with some thoughts on students, archives, and teachable moments (among other things). Allons-y!

Analog, Digital, and Progress?

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Happy Wednesday, dear readers! I hope your day is going well. We continue to have rather gloomy weather in the Bay Area, but it is also spring break so it all evens out in the end. Today I want to talk a bit about the analog versus digital, digital immigrant vs. digital native debate. This isn’t what I planned to write about today, but it is what I need to write about today or I’m never going to get the conversation points I was thinking about yesterday out of my head.

So analog versus digital. It’s kinda an overdone, oversimplified dichotomy, no? But this week, it seems to have come up rather frequently in multiple venues. (Bear with me, I’ll bring it all back to the libraries and archives in just a bit.) First there was the rather wonderful episode of Bones, The Blackout in the Blizzard. The bit with the microfilm reminded me of one of my fellow interns at the archives in Boston who was a huge proponent of eye-readable media and didn’t go for any of that “digitized stuff.” When the power goes out, you can still read microfilm so I suppose a point should go to analog in this case.

But the real reason I wanted to try to work out some thoughts about analog and digital is due to a conversation I had yesterday about digital natives. Apparently I missed the discussion on Twitter yesterday about digital natives (not surprising considering I was running around trying to get everything lined up for next quarter), so we discussed it during the afternoon tea break (not to worry, the tea break does not occur in the archives). The conversation made me think, always a good thing. One of the things that came up was the thought that digital natives consider digital solutions before analog ones and have a different mentalité than those of us who are digital immigrants. Okay, I’ll buy that for the sake of argument (even if I think the dichotomy is partially socially constructed). But is thinking of a digital solution to a problem necessarily progress?

In some regards, I would say yes. Some things are way better in digital form. Take searching old university catalogs if you are an archivist doing reference for a remote researcher. It’s much easier to search online than flipping through pages and pages of stuff. But for other things analog, though older, may be better. In a similar example, actually thinking of going through old catalogs to find information for finding aid notes if the information isn’t online instead of giving up and declaring the information to be unavailable. Or, in an example close to many people’s hearts as it is income tax season in the United States, check out Lifehacker’s article on how to send documents securely to your tax preparer. Hint: give them to the tax preparer in person. Like many things in life, digital didn’t make all of life easier, instead you just need to know and be proficient in finding information and solutions in multiple mediums.

Now, obviously I’m not a technophobe and do honestly believe there have been shifts in thinking and reasoning patterns due to the ubiquity of digital technologies. But I don’t think we should think of it as a zero sum game, or having to get rid of one to make room for the other. In other words, I think it is a false dichotomy, or at least an oversimplification and generalization to have analog pitted against digital or a “digital native” against a “digital immigrant.”

To end on a more positive note, because you know it can’t be all doom and gloom on this blog, yesterday’s conversation reminded me of Seth Godin’s recent blog post, Bring me Stuff That’s Dead, Please. Just because something isn’t the newest and shiniest thing to hit the digital (or analog) world, doesn’t mean it is dead. It just means, as Godin notes, that those thinkers, ponderers, and people that do the actual work have the time and experience to now really reflect and leverage the technologies. And that, my dear readers, is where the really fun stuff begins.

So to me, in the end, it isn’t about digital versus analog, it’s about what is the best tool for the job at hand and whether or not you have the experience and knowledge to actually know what is the best tool. Because progress is made by those who are fearless, experiment, and are open to incorporating new ideas into their knowledge base without throwing everything else out with last year’s technological bathwater.

I’m off my soapbox now. But I’d love to hear your thoughts about digital v. analog and digital native v. digital immigrant. I’m always up for conversation.

To end, here is this great video sent to me by one of my colleagues. If cats in an IKEA store don’t make you smile, I don’t know what will.

Have a fantastic rest of your day and I’ll be back on Friday (hopefully) with some more technology news and thoughts.

Ease of Archiving

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Happy Wednesday! I hope you are well, dear readers, and are having a lovely week. Today I want to talk about digital archiving and the problem of actually getting people to archive their work. What I don’t want to talk about is the issue with Harper Collins as it has been tweeted by seemingly every librarian on Twitter and has even spawned the The eBook User’s Bill of Rights. So, yeah, don’t really have much to add to that conversation. Instead I have some bits of flotsam that have been rolling about in my head since coming home from the Personal Digital Archiving Conference last week. I thought I’d share and see what you think about it all. Allons-y!

One of the concepts that kept surfacing during the conference was the fact that people are lazy (unsurprising) and don’t want to work to back-up and then archive their work. Now this is not a shocking concept for anyone who has any contact with people, ever. We, on the whole, try to find the easiest and fastest way to get anything done. Now I’m not saying that this is inherently a bad thing. For example, I dislike grocery shopping so I appreciate stores laying out their products in logical arrangements so I can find what I need easily and get on with my day instead of spending 10 minutes trying to figure out on which aisle are the olives.

But when this desire to have everything done in one-step (or preferably without any intervention on the user’s part at all) makes digital archiving seem like a dream, I do have a problem. We heard updates on some amazing work by computer scientists and archivists on creating institutional repositories (IR) that can automatically generate metadata when digital objects are uploaded to the IR at the conference. We also heard about future projects to create one question surveys for users to complete that would generate more useful metadata about their digital objects. I think these advancements are wonderful because I’m not the kind of person who takes the ‘all or nothing’ approach to archival work. Some metadata is better than none and having some people take the time to upload their work to IRs or other digital archives is great. But what about everything we are losing? (And don’t get started on how we can’t save it all. I’m not calling for saving everything. I firmly uphold the principle and practice of appraisal.)

What if you can’t get a metadata form for users to fill out down to one question? Maybe you can’t get everything to be automatically generated in the background without the user contributing something to the metadata creation process. How easy does it have to be to get people to do it?

I wonder about this question not only in the context of archiving but in many facets of life. For example, how easy does searching a database have to be for the majority of students to use it? How much specificity and control over a search do you have to give up to make it “easy enough” to use? Not even talking about digital archiving, but just scheduling back-ups for your computer, how much easier does it need to be than clicking 2 buttons for people to backup their machines? Where is the line, in any case, that separates “good enough” from “results we won’t accept”?

I’d like to hear your ideas on the tensions between striving to make things easy and producing “good enough” results for whatever product or service you are creating. I’m all for good user design and experience, but am having trouble feeling any empathy for people who won’t take the time to at least name their files something intelligible. I have high hopes for the future of digital archiving, both in personal and institutional contexts, but I worry about making sense of it all if people don’t take the time to do (just a bit) of quality control on filenames, metadata, etc..

Or maybe I’m just having one of those days that make everything seem overwhelming and you don’t feel that this is an issue at all or you’ve found a way to solve it in your archives. I’d love to hear about any and all of it in comments.

Now, since it can’t all be doom and gloom on a Wednesday (and because anyone in the Bay Area could definitely use a bit of fun on this rather dreary day), we will end with Simon’s Cat in “Sticky Tape.” It’s short, cute, and funny. Use it for a quick break in your busy work day.

Have a wonderful rest of your day and I’ll be back on Friday with some tech, library, and archives news.

PDA 2011 Closing Keynote

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Closing Keynote by Rudy Rucker, Sr.. Let’s get to the summary!

Lifebox Immortality

Science fiction dream of achieving immortality via personal digital archiving. But, we don’t understand how brains store information. It’s not practical to tag everything yourself; you need ways of automating tagging and metadata creation.

Wrote a book called, The Lifebox, The Seashell, and the Soul. His day job was as a computer science instructor at San Jose State (he is retired now).

Lifebox is an idea of a personal digital archive that is “really good” and that you can search easily. It’s not hard to search your lifebox if you are a writer like Rucker and uploaded a lot of information on your own website and created a custom Google search engine for your site.

In human conversation, people do not answer your questions directly. There is an actual conversation. But you could create a chat bot copy of yourself in a lifebox. What is missing is the creativity of the person in these stand-ins. So you don’t really achieve immortality.

Most people aren’t writers. Rucker says you should write like you talk. You could also tell a story instead of writing the story of your life. This is already reality via speech recognition software. Still missing “the spark.”

Suggested reading: On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins (about neural networks).

Not hard to get chat bots as long as you get people to upload enough data. (That’s always the problem, isn’t it? People have to exert effort which is a hard sell.)

Take away: Easy enough to create a chat bot, but much more difficult to recreate “the spark” or the creativity of humanity. Many approaches to personal archiving, may never be a standardized way of archiving when making “a copy of yourself.”