Rex Sorgatz on Your Life As Aggregation Potential

Rex Sorgatz has reorganized his personal site, and in the process is making extensive use of attention data and other behaviorally-generated metadata as means of self-expression:

Although it might look like I've merely thrown a bunch of widgets on the page, it's actually intended to signal a notion that I've lately been bouncing off people: the future of blogging is self-aggregation...

Once you start thinking of your life as aggregation potential, you start to wonder about all kinds of possibilities. ("How dangerous would it be to expose my clickstream?") Although this isn't revoluationary thinking, I like the idea that this site updates even when I'm not explicitly creating content for it. When you start to think about your blog as a receptacle for capturing all parts of your online life (and perhaps even your non-digital life), you can start to imagine a constantly updating page of personal data. To get metaphysical for a moment, the self-aggregator becomes another version of you.

Thanks to Noah Brier for the heads-up.

tags: attention attentiontrust attention+trust attention+economy attention+data rex+sorgatz noah+brier