NY Times: For Web’s New Wave, Sharing Details Is the Point --TMI

I couldn't help noticiing the New York Times article on 4/22/10 that described Mark Brooks desire to make sure the whole Web knows he spent $41 on an iPad case at an Apple store, $24 eating at an Applebee’s, and $6,450 at a Florida plastic surgery clinic for nose work. This flies exactly against what we believe and describe in Total Recall--lifelogging is great; blogging aka blabbing to the world about trivial details about your own life is kind of stupid.

The belief is that by being able to mine this data something good will come of it--most likely that the cybertown dump will hold stuff of value if properly processed and recycled. Ideally marketers will come to these dumps, process the bits, and turn them into gold. The only gold here is for the dump operators who will try to offload the properties to Google. The big losers will be the exhibitionists who deposit their refuge in hopes of getting a notice in the New York Times or a $0.10 return on each receipt deposited.

Ironically the LA Times reported on 4/24/10 featured the article: Blippy says it has fixed glitch that exposed users' credit card numbers. The article went on to describe the upside for Blippy and the Venture companies that valued the company's few weeks work at $46 Million.