A Smarter Planet

From the World Wide Web to the Web Wide World

Jack Mason

Jack Mason
Location
New York, USA
Title
Global Business Services, Strategic Programs
Company
IBM
Bio
I'm working on IBM's Smarter Planet initiative, which is about the global evolution from the "World Wide Web" to a "Web Wide World" ... a planetary infrastructure that is pervasively instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com

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Salon.com
FEBRUARY 22, 2012 3:44PM

Your Life as Data: The Rise of Personal Annual Reports |...

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Your Life as Data: The Rise of Personal Annual Reports | Mashable

Every time he drinks a cup of coffee, Dan Meyer makes a note on his phone. He does the same every time he opens a beer, turns on his TV or travels away from home. At the end of each month, he spends about three hours transferring these meticulously gathered notes into an excel spreadsheet. Meyer isn’t obsessive compulsive, he just likes data. Like an increasing number of data geeks, he uses his personal life as a project — compiling small events into a sometimes elaborate, graphic annual report each January.

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