The MyLifeBits project at Microsoft Research is one we've posted about many times on ResourceShelf and one that has received a large amount of press attention for the person central to the project, Gordon Bell. Links to a few of our posts from the past five years can be found below. The MLB home page is loaded with even more background and papers by Bell and his colleagues, Jim Gemmell and Roger Lueder.
Basically MyLifeBits is based on Vannevar Bush's Memex vision published in the July 1945 article, "As We May Think." If you've never read this important and fascinating article, it's MORE than worthy of your time. It's required reading in some Library and Info Science programs.
MyLifeBits is a digital storehouse of just about everything in Dr. Bell's life.
[MLB is] a lifetime's worth of articles, books, cards, CDs, letters, memos, papers, photos, pictures, presentations, home movies, videotaped lectures, and voice recordings and stored them digitally. He is now paperless, and is beginning to capture phone calls, IM transcripts, television, and radio.
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