Justin.TV

By Jian Shuo Wang on 2007-04-06 10:50 · My Hobbies

Interesting. Look at this http://www.justin.tv/。 Richard sent me the link.

This is exactly what I am looking for. This is what exactly what I think the future blogging will be.

There is a Microsoft Research project to record everything (including sound and picture) of your life. I like this idea. I know it is not possible to process the 2G of data (daily!) with the current technology, but there must be some time it is possible.

Justin made a further step by broadcasting it in real time. I am not sure if I want to do it as Justin (well. I am sure I won’t do it), but I am pretty comfortable to record everything like Justin for my personal record. After 20 years, it must be very funny to rewind and see what happened when I am still young.

9 Comments
Haha, I'm not sure I can be as crazy as that. I'm too busy to carry the camera all the time.
— Yanqing Chen · 2007-04-06 11:30
American's much crazier than other people.
— Yanqing Chen · 2007-04-06 11:31
It is great for personal memory record,

but to reader/visitor, I think it a waste. I read the blog just for something not everything of the blogger, and the picture/video does not show the real inside world of a person as by literal.
— wyx · 2007-04-06 13:35
Isn't this the problem with the internet, and with life in general these days? I mean too much information. There are already too many interesting blogs, books, movies, places, people, etc. that I can't get to them all. At the same time, the signal to noise ratio for life in general is decreasing - meaning that there is too much NON interesting stuff which keeps me from getting to the interesting stuff. I would place 2GB daily of unfiltered data about someone's day - and I mean anyone, including Zhang Ziyi or Bill Gates - firmly in the noise category. I would find that boring even for myself, why would I want it for anyone else? What we need is not more raw data, but better editing!
— ddjiii · 2007-04-06 17:43
Isn't this the problem with the internet, and with life in general these days? I mean too much information. There are already too many interesting blogs, books, movies, places, people, etc. that I can't get to them all. At the same time, the signal to noise ratio for life in general is decreasing - meaning that there is too much NON interesting stuff which keeps me from getting to the interesting stuff. I would place 2GB daily of unfiltered data about someone's day - and I mean anyone, including Zhang Ziyi or Bill Gates - firmly in the noise category. I would find that boring even for myself, why would I want it for anyone else? What we need is not more raw data, but better editing!
— ddjiii · 2007-04-06 18:30
Is this something like that Robin William's movie, "The Final Cut"?
— Jet So · 2007-04-07 10:51
I can only say that I am so poor of English, and I should "good good study, day day up"!haha
— sight · 2007-04-07 17:37
I think that this desire results from the modern confusion, pushed strongly by advertisers, to equate a record of something with the real thing. I am in the music business and it makes me very sad to talk to people who believe that they are experiencing music when they listen to a recording of music. What you experience when you listen to recordings are your emotions that are brought out by the recording. Listening to musicians playing in a room is a completely qualitatively different experience. Wanting to have a complete record of your life so you won't forget anything might mean you won't truly remember anything, that your remembrance will be based on the recorded media, ie. a bad video, poor lighting, funky sound, etc. rather than a true memory. Before recording, just over 100 years ago your question could not have been asked, now people seem to take it for granted
— Les Izmore · 2007-04-11 19:41
Good point, les. Live music is completely different from recorded music. I totally agree with you on this.

A lot of attempt people try to use technology seems to be "naughty".
— Jian Shuo Wang · 2007-04-12 00:56