Quantitative Self (QS) Silicon Valley meetup video, Gordon Bell, August 2010

From the Quantitative Self Meeting Notes 13 August, 2010.

"At the Bay Area QS Show&Tell meetup, Gordon Bell, legendary lifelogger at Microsoft and co-author of Total Recall gave a candid, engaging talk on his MyLifeBits project. He showed pictures from his SenseCam that takes a picture every 20 seconds while he's wearing it. He generates 1 GB of data per month, including a screenshot of every website he visits and the hundreds of pages of health records from his multiple bypass surgeries. Gordon considers his data to be a surrogate memory - he doesn't look at it unless he needs to remember something specific, and he enjoys making films from the pictures. Resources that he mentioned using include an Oregon Scientific pedometer and the Canyon Ranch preventive health resort in Lenox, Massachusetts. 

Watch the controversy below that emerged when Gordon speculated that if he had been wearing his heart monitor strap while bicycling, he could have prevented his last heart attack - a cardiologist in the audience disagreed that the tracking could have saved him."

http://www.kk.org/quantifiedself/2010/09/gordon-bell-on-mylifebits.php