Every once in awhile a great article comes around that shows you why all these blogs just kinda suck when it comes to features; don't worry I'm including this one as well.

The future is data, data and content. Wolf might be focusing on the obsessive MIT sense of data journals but you can easily see that every post you make to Facebook is beginning to keep a journal of your life, and guess what? You don't own it. Take a quick read of this article to get some idea of what our lives will look like in the NEAR future. Great piece of journalism.

HCI mechanics to pay forward from this? Data visualization, consumer facing listeners, data trackers (easy to use), social mashups.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/magazine/02self-measurement-t.html?sq=data%...