Now you may at first wonder why I would say a humane society has poor service.   Is it the treatment of the animals?  No, I haven't witnessed any animals at this point.   Is it the prices they charge?  No, as far as I know I have no specific objection to their pricing structure.   My issue with the Ashland Human Society is there poor service.

I called this morning to confirm my appointment for the Rascal Unit that was stopping by to run a pet care clinic.  I was taking in the three youngest of my brood to getting them spayed and neutered respectively.  To show you what my main complaint is here is the e-mail I'm sending to Rascal Unit:

Dear Rascal Unit,

I regret to inform you of the poor responsiveness of your partner in offering pet care, the Ashland Humane Society.  While I'm sure their intentions were well and their hearts are in the proper place, according to your web site with you calender it stated as follows:

January 27- Ashland County, Ohio

Contact the Ashland Humane Society at 419 2814722 or e-mail ashlandhumane@yahoo.com to make an appointment for this clinic date in this area.

Some of your calender dates show that you are able to make an appointment by e-mail or by phone call  A good example of this is your  calender date for Dayton:

January 16- Dayton, Ohio

Contact the Humane Society of Greater Dayton at 937 268 PETS to schedule for this clinic date in this area.

This calender entry has no e-mail address so it stresses the importance of calling.    The reason this is an issue is because in your Ashland calender entry it treats it as if the e-mail and phone number are equal.  I e-mailed in my appointment and called this morning to verify what time you were going to be there.

I addressed the lady who answered the phone  asked why I was callig and I explained I was just calling to see if the Rascal Unit had arrived yet, she confirmed it was and asked me about my appointment.   I explained I had made my appointment by e-mail and she stopped me right there, she said they hadn't bothered it check it for appointments.   Now she didn't know how long ago I had e-mailed in and seemed almost oblivious that this was an option and stated she could make an appointment for on Feb. 24.

Now this is a rude method to treat someone who had made reservations in the proper fashion and was not informed in any way or shape that this was an issue.   This being 2008 and some people like myself prefer to use e-mail since it's been a primary communication tool for myself since 1994.   I am an able bodied person with no disabilities, but giving the option for e-mail to make an appointment  and then not validating and accepting that method may be an issue for individuals with disabilities.  A growing portion of Americans are now using e-mail in venues where available instead of relying on the old teletext system.    If someone with disabilities had attempted to contact the Ashland Humane society in the fashion that I did and received the same response, it may open it up for legal issues on The American with Disabilities Act.

I'm not saying any of this issue was your fault and hold the Rascal Unit blameless in this regard.   What I do insist to save others the future is to verify your partners actually check and accept appointments by e-mail if they say they are going to.  Beyond that I must suggest you remove the e-mail address for the Ashland Humane Society as a method for contacting them.

Sincerely

Creeva (ok I left my real name and full address)

Now like I said in the e-mail that I don't hold the Rascal Unit for the responsibility of the partners, I do however insist they require a certain degree of responsiveness from those that do business with them.   I do know some individuals would hold Rascal Unit responsible since technically the appointment was with them.    I say they are blameless and have to put a certain degree of trust in their partners.

This is 2008 and companies should at least be able to check their e-mail in a daily basis, whether they be a non-profit or for profit business.   These entities need to understand that in the current time that e-mail and websites are important communications tools for them and without utilizing these technologies they are going to be left behind and lost.

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Life Caching:

Life caching is setting up sites that you have complete control over to save data from sites that you only have varied levels of control. Getting all of your meta data in one place. Saving each detail of data in it's place so it's saved, used, and recyclable. Life caching is the next stage as the Data Portability Group moves forward. This is not the goal of the Data Portability Group - it is just what their goal enable you to do. The work however is burdened on to you and I can say there is no easy way to do this and some data leakage and loss will always slip through cracks, at least in this stage of the game.

Isn't this what Life Streaming Accomplishes? How is Life Caching different?

Life Streaming is the step before life caching. While the concepts share alot of overlapping the simplest scenario is that a life stream is a picture in time that does not save your data. A life stream is ephemeral and actual current implementations are very fragile. I have a life stream here. RSS feeds expire so data is lost, companies go out of business so the links it points to is gone, or data just gets missed. But to truly get a better picture of life streaming here is what the life streaming blog says about it:

What is a Lifestream? In it’s simplest form it’s a chronological aggregated view of your life activities both online and offline. It is only limited by the content and sources that you use to define it. Mine is available here. Most people that create them choose a few sources based on sites that track our activities such as Del.icio.us (bookmarking), Last.fm (Music we listen to), Flickr (photos we take) etc…Then you can either find software to host your own, or find sites that provide a platform for you.

Many people have been writing about Lifestreams and the potential value they offer for ourselves and others. Some of those people are Jeff Croft, Jeremy Keith, and Emily Chang. It appears to be a concept that is gaining quite a bit of steam.

I was inspired to create a blog for the Lifestream concept after doing a little research which I wrote about on my blog. Most of the information I found was pretty scattered and there wasn’t a central repository of resources so I thought I should create one. I feel that beyond the self expression of allowing people to track their actions in a passive manner there will be many more exciting technologies that will surface from the backend data aggregation that can occur from people supplying this information.

The rub is that 99% of life streams only save the links of the RSS feeds and do not save the actual data. This is inefficient in design because like I said before data get's lost for various reasons. Life caching however has the prime goal of saving that individual data for your use and your manipulation. This gives you freedom to do with what you want. Take your data anywhere and everywhere, do with it what you will.

How is this different from the Data Portability Group?

In some aspects, like the concepts of life streaming, life caching shares a few steps in common with the Data Portability Group. What the Data Portability Group means to give is methods and standards that give you tools to do with your data what you will. However, this doesn't actually mean you will do anything with it or that there will be a standard out of the box configuration for you. The responsibility is on you to act and use these tools that will hopefully emerge.

The Data Portability Group is key for this going forward and allowing you to withdraw your data from the sites that were previously walled gardens. After the garden gates are finally thrown open you have the freedom to do with the data what you will. Please put this power to good use.

Why Do I care?

You should care because this is about you. It is who you are. It does not specifically define you in any ways and most people would understand that it's a complete picture of you. There are however aspects of you that you may want to share at a later date. The stories your grandmother told you will get fuzzier over time. Hopefully the idea of life caching which is still in it's infancy will lead to life story archives that the generations after us can learn from. Our grandkids will be able ot mine the data and read the stories you want to pass on.

Will those after you care that you listened to Fallout Boy on June 7th, 2008? Maybe not, but maybe your grandkids will discover similar music tastes with you. It will give them an understanding of who you are. It will also give them ways to identify with you in a way that you could never identify with the pilgrims that came across on the mayflower.

What do I save?

The ideal answer is everything. I would say between the RSS streams I save and the email I collect I am almost up to a 90% efficiency of collecting my personal data online.

To give you an example:

• I save everything I dig.
• I write places I go and stories about them in 43 places
• I write about things I've done at 43 things
• I save stories about people I've met at 43 people
• I save all the music I listen to that can be tracked with last.fm
• I track all boks I read and movies I watch with with allconsuming
• I save comments I make with cocomments
• I save when and what pictures I've uploaded to Flickr, Photobucket, and Picasa
• I save collections of data that I find meaning full with lists of best
• I save the bookmarks I make in del.icio.us
• I save the stories I've stumbled upon
• I save the things I've shared in google reader
• I save my newsvine articles
• I save my pownces and my tweets
• I save the stories I liked at reddit
• I save the videos I liked an/or uploaded to youtube

This may seem like a lot of data. It is, but it's also what we deal with in a normal consuming internet fashion. I don't use the tools that save which applications I'm running and I'm looking for something like last.fm for movies so it's more automatic - but that will come in time.

Via e-mail I save my phone calls, my bills, banking history- all this can be stored offline and databased in the home. Your own personal Google for yourself should be the end goal of life caching.

Doesn't this make it easier for companies to mine data about me?

Yes the google monster is omnipotent. Anything you share online can be snagged up and archived away by google. Is this a good thing? Maybe or maybe not. There is no reason you would need to make most of this data public. You could set up to store this data in email archives, private data sites, or personal home encrypted databases. Life caching is not about displaying your life. It's about having control over it and saving it for a future date.

As the Data Portability Group expands they hope to implement permission controls for the data. This will help prevent against data mining to some extent. The only true answer is that if there are things that you don't want anyone to know about do not place them anywhere that is publicly accessible or in the hands of any company or person other then yourself.

How do I store and backup the data?

There are many ways. I use Wordpress with a variety of plugins to maintain all my data on the site. I also use quite a bit of feedburner kung-fu and gmail filters. The key thing is that I can extract this data into other formats from just those two methods. I could dump it into a personal database or wiki. The tools are only at the beginning of stages to make this useful for you. It is easier to back it up before you lose it then to want it after it is gone.

What Can't I backup?

In an ideal world there is nothing that you can't backup. We don't however live in an ideal world. Mostly the limitations deal with which sites give you some form of access to your data. Some don't allow you to take friend's list with you. Other sites don't allow you to get posts out unless you implement site scraping which could break the terms of service you agreed to.

The limitation is in the tools and the agreements and the Data Portability Group is helping lead the future in developments that will allow you greater access to your own data.

How do you share with your friends?

Beyond having a public blog which your friends may or may not visit there are multiple ways. I have two major RSS feeds coming out my website. The public RSS feed gives everyone a filtered feed of my posts. This way they don't get spammed with every song I listen to on last.fm or every single story I digg when it happens. This RSS feed then goes and notifies my twitter friends that I've posted something new that I find relevant. It also goes out and feeds the stories to tumblr, jaiku, and facebook. It is also the feed that my RSS readers get.

The secondary feed goes to feedburner and gives me a post to email option. This allows me to save via an email archive all of my daily posts so they are searchable through gmail for myself. Users could subscribe to this feed if they asked me, it's just the amount of data can sometimes be overwhelming and I've had a few complaints from a couple of twitter friends.

From my wordpress blog I post to other blog sites. For example when I finish and publish this post it will also be posted at my msn spaces accounts, my old blog at blogspot, vox, xanga, myspace, livejournal, and dandelife. So no matter where you have friended me you can get notifications that I've published and posted something.

Finally in some of the message boards I use my signature contains a java script that rotates my 5 newest stories so people can read the headlines and click if they find it interesting.

Do you truly think that this is the future?

Yes, your data is you and part of you is also your data. Hopefully the stories we wish to pass down can be archived, saved, and cached for all to read and consume for generations to come.

Final Notes:

I hope this explanation is relevant for you and that you have interesting in preserving your own data. Each of the links in this article will help you with different aspects of your design. If you have further questions or need some details expanded please leave a comment or contact me so we can hash out ideas and clarify them.

For those heavily interested I would recommend posting and devising ways that you can cache your online and offline life. Work with the Data Portability Group on tools to make this work. The most important thing is to only deal with companies that allow you to do with your data what you want and place it where you need it. Thank and support the companies that do.

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On September 18, 2006 I wrote an epic post it seems. The title of the post was Greatest accomplishment of mankind in the modern era. Now you may think this post should have been something epic about computers or fighting polio. It wasn't. The complete text of the post is this:

Being able to order pizza over the internet.

Now you would think that a post like this would get lost into obscurity. Google on the other hand has some different thoughts.

For the google search mankinds greatest accomplishments I rank 4th. But wait google suggests you try the search mankind's greatest accomplishments, ok let try that. Once again I rank 4th. Out of curiosity I try mankind greatest accomplishment. I rank freaking 3rd for the search mankind greatest accomplishment. I am almost completely dead on to what Google considers is the top.

Google must agree that being able to order pizza is be mankind's greatest achievement. Well they had to throw some other results ahead of me, but they almost completely agree with me. I'm using this as ammunition next time that someone argues with me what mankind's greatest accomplishment is. Google has got my back. If somehow Google ranks this post as number - I'll know they are no longer shy about agreeing with me.

Props out to Dominos and Papa Johns who have given me mankind's greatest accomplishment. I was buying strictly from papa john's online at the time - so I bow before them. Without them Google would never have agreed with me.

Update:

For the search greatest accomplishment of mankind I rank number #2.

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On September 18, 2006 I wrote an epic post it seems. The title of the post was Greatest accomplishment of mankind in the modern era. Now you may think this post should have been something epic about computers or fighting polio.  It wasn't.  The complete text of the post is this:

Being able to order pizza over the internet.

Now you would think that a post like this would get lost into obscurity.  Google on the other hand has some different thoughts.

For the google search mankinds greatest accomplishments I rank 4th.  But wait google suggests you try the search mankind's greatest accomplishments, ok let try that.  Once again I rank 4th.  Out of curiosity I try mankind greatest accomplishment.  I rank freaking 3rd for the search mankind greatest accomplishment.  I am almost completely dead on to what Google considers is the top.

Google must agree that being able to order pizza is be mankind's greatest achievement.   Well they had to throw some other results ahead of me, but they almost completely agree with me.   I'm using this as ammunition next time that someone argues with me what mankind's greatest accomplishment is.  Google has got my back.   If somehow Google ranks this post as number - I'll know they are no longer shy about agreeing with me.

Props out to Dominos and Papa Johns who have given me mankind's greatest accomplishment.   I was buying strictly from papa john's online at the time - so I bow before them.  Without them Google would never have agreed with me.

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When I was a consultant and traveling all the time I seriously thought the airplane gods wanted to mock me.   Especially the time I got stranded because of an overbooked flight in Buffalo for 8 hours.    The Consumerist has a list of the top 10 worst airports for delays - I've been to most of them.   From their list here is where I've been:

Chicago, IL (MDW)

New York, NY (LGA)

Atlanta, GA (ATL)

Philadelphia, PA (PHL)

New York, NY (JFK)

Newark, NJ (EWR)

Chicago, IL (ORD)

So for all the rest of you that have been stranded out there waiting for your flight to take off, I take great sympathy for you.

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Journey To Get Paid wants to bring you into the world of brand management.

Now the first thing to know as a blogger that you are your brand. Whatever you do positive or negative effects your brand in tremendous ways. It also effects your SEO in a way also, but I'll get to that towards the end. You have to decide how you want yourself as a blogger to be perceived. If you want a spam blog that may or may not generate yourself a ton of money please stop now because some of the things I'm going to explain is just going to out you quicker to the general population.

You as a blogger is the primary asset for your brand, that being said if you have a collaborative blog, that blog in itself is a brand name and the authors are their own brand names. If you are insightful, engaging, humorous, or interesting you can gain an audience. The audience you wish to reach depends on yourself. The blog I'm going to use for example is my personal blog at creeva.com. This blog is the core of my internet persona (ironically not really the core of my journey to getting paid but my core nonetheless). Where ever I post across the blog-o-verse I cross post the article to my home blog. This allows ease of backup and exposure to the few people that take interest in me.

For those that don't care about the fluff or personal lamenting I have the on topic blogs I work on (journeytogetpaid.com) this immediately separates readers from the two brands I wish to confer on to them, the brand of myself as a blogger compared to the brand of one of the blogs that I write. This allows for a more personal dynamic of engagement between yourself and your readers. You should always be personal - but I'll never get asked if my cat is feeling better at journeytogetpaid.com.

Honing into the fact that you are your own brand management (Scobel is king of self-brand management) you have to target your own peer group. This includes allowing other methods for readers and friends to contact you. This gives multiple levels of engagement where you still have some control over the boundaries. I went from google telling me "did you mean cirev?" when I did a search for creeva - to the fact now that I have over 6k hits on that name. Is that good? Well my friends can find me through all the various services I use - or the can engage me at my home blog with aggregates the data from far and wide.

Let's take this story I'm writing right now. When this is published it will be published on journeytogetpaid.com and crossposted to journeytogetpaid.blogspot.com (google crawls itself first hence the blogspot mirror) and creeva.com. You may think that is the end of i, but far from it. At creeva.com I allow my friends to read me from whatever social network they use and wish to follow me on. Here is a run down to what happens when this story is crossposted and published over at creeva.com.

Creeva.com crossposts to the following sites

My livejournal which in turn syncs with my dandelife account

My Vox

My MSN Spaces

My Old Blogspot Site

My Xanga Site

It also through RSS feeds goes to these sites:

Sends an alert to my twitter readers

Sends a notification as a blog entry into my myspace blog

Cross posts into my facebook profile

Archives as a line in my old tumblr account that I don't know what I'm going to do with

Archives to my old suprglu account that I used to use as my lifestream.

Theoretically before anyone reads this article it will be published 13 places. This is also before the spammers get to it and repurpose it for their own means. My wife says she is going to blame me when the internet crashes. Behind the scenes there is even a bit more that goes on, but that really isn't publicly accessible since it has nothing to do with branding.

Why do I do this?

Different people know me at different places, but my writing is all me and I wish to share that with all of them. I'm not as bad as some. I actually at one point crossposted every song I listen to, thankfully I'm more selective at what I crosspost at this time. It's more relevant to what is going on and family and friends can have different levels of engagement with m.

I also use many activity specific type sites like flickr and digg which I don't cross post to but have a level of engagement with other users there. But of course my profile links back to my main site. Whenever I crosspost I also include links back to where he article was originally published at. This allows readers to traceback and find the information at teh correct source. I use no subterfuge or magic mirrors to hide what I'm doing. It's all plain as day.

Seeing this is my journey to get paid I'm sure your wondering how I can monetize all these sources?

In short - I can't, but passing the message and advertising myself to those that show interest hopefully have them trace back to the original article. If not I have methods of importing comments from these diverse locations into creeva.com. So if you leave a comment on my facebook account or my flickr account it get pulled back into creeva.com. This allows full engagement with my readers and what they have to say.

So all I have to do to be popular is push myself out everywhere at once?

No, if your not interesting and don't have any friends now, propagating your information will not help you get anymore. If your not clear on your intentions or your readers think your being shady it can back fire on you. It can get you on the dreaded spammer list in people's minds. Yes I could theoretically start 2000 blogspot domains and crosspost to all of them, but I don't. I just maintain the links I already have in the communities that I already exist. I'll migrate the method in which I interact with a service by sourcing material from the one I primarily use, but I don't abandon the community I left behind.

This of course in some ways hurts me from a monetary perspective - but my branding gets better and recognition improves. You will always have to write something people wish to read if you want to gain a steady and growing following instead of single SEO tricks to get people to click links without giving them any substance (that's cheating). Work on your own writing and enhancing the communities around you, this is what gives you a following and brand loyalty.

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Never - it's still to early to be late.

It seems my article on life caching struck a chord with someone. I'm glad someone at least shares my understanding on this need. He is just starting to search and find his lifestreaming needs and tools, and this really is the best time to start.

I left him this comment on his site (though his comment system mangled my formatting and I've fixed it here):

I'm glad you enjoyed my article - I have a few follow-ups to that article that I need to pound out - such as different ways of actually caching the data. I can say reading a couple of your earlier that you are not late to the life streaming party.

While I agree life streaming is useful, important, and mostly neat. Life caching is the evolutionary transition that will need to occur as the data portability movement takes place. Tools unfortunately to do any type of life caching are terrible at this time. I have some wordpress plugins that I 'm cutting my PHP learning teeth on that have lots of bugs that I need to streamline - if the object of most of these plugins came from the lifestreaming design instead of spam blog design (repurposing RSS feeds can go both ways) then this small faction of belief in saving our own data can grow.

Dang - sometimes I'm just too long winded.

P.S. Lifestreaming is becoming a verb maybe in a few more years it will be up there with w00t and in the dictionary.

On another one of his posts I left this comment:

I'll give you the fact that your earlier thoughts on life streaming is correct - it is too much information.

That being said - you need to look at who this is for. Most people don't care about everything I do and I've pruned my RSS feeds that I give to the public down so they only get the useful information.

I archive and save this data for myself - and like the pictures people take of their children growing up, there is never a thing as too much information.

It may be too much information at this point in time - but when personal data mining takes place in a few years as the next hot trend - and archive of this data will be very useful to find trends of different points of your life that you may otherwise forget (or wished you would have forgotten but google reminds everyone anyways).

Over at the lifestream blog the author linked to this original article from here - but while sees usefulness in life caching still believes in the importance of life streaming.   I don't think you can truly do one without the other, but with this newer concept catching on there is no good way to do it yet.  I left him this comment:

 We can agree to disagree on the importance of life caching - but without accurate and long term archiving of data (life caching) - the lifestream setups most people currently will only be fleeting since most use RSS feeds in a transitional phase of their life stream.  As the RSS feed items expire they are removed from the lifestream.   Even sites like dandelife.com that does the best job of storing data for a lifestream only keeps transitional data from the auxiliary streams and eventually it expires.

I really hope the industry catches up with this idea - I'll get at least one more of those promised life caching articles out this week.

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Never - it's still to early to be late.

It seems my article on life caching struck a chord with someone. I'm glad someone at least shares my understanding on this need. He is just starting to search and find his lifestreaming needs and tools, and this really is the best time to start.

I left him this comment on his site (though his comment system mangled my formatting and I've fixed it here):

I'm glad you enjoyed my article - I have a few follow-ups to that article that I need to pound out - such as different ways of actually caching the data. I can say reading a couple of your earlier that you are not late to the life streaming party.

While I agree life streaming is useful, important, and mostly neat. Life caching is the evolutionary transition that will need to occur as the data portability movement takes place. Tools unfortunately to do any type of life caching are terrible at this time. I have some wordpress plugins that I 'm cutting my PHP learning teeth on that have lots of bugs that I need to streamline - if the object of most of these plugins came from the lifestreaming design instead of spam blog design (repurposing RSS feeds can go both ways) then this small faction of belief in saving our own data can grow.

Dang - sometimes I'm just too long winded.

P.S. Lifestreaming is becoming a verb maybe in a few more years it will be up there with w00t and in the dictionary.

On another one of his posts I left this comment:

 I'll give you the fact that your earlier thoughts on life streaming is correct - it is too much information.

That being said - you need to look at who this is for.  Most people don't care about everything I do and I've pruned my RSS feeds that I give to the public down so they only get the useful information.

I archive and save this data for myself - and like the pictures people take of their children growing up, there is never a thing as too much information.

It may be too much information at this point in time - but when personal data mining takes place in a few years as the next hot trend - and archive of this data will be very useful to find trends of different points of your life that you may otherwise forget (or wished you would have forgotten but google reminds everyone anyways).

I really hope the industry catches up with this idea - I'll get at least one more of those promised life caching articles out this week.

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Never - it's still to early to be late.

It seems my article on life caching struck a chord with someone.   I'm glad someone at least shares my understanding on this need.   He is just starting to search and find his lifestreaming needs and tools, and this really is the best time to start.

I left him this comment on his site (though his comment system mangled my formatting and I've fixed it here):

I'm glad you enjoyed my article - I have a few follow-ups to that article that I need to pound out - such as different ways of actually caching the data. I can say reading a couple of your earlier that you are not late to the life streaming party.

While I agree life streaming is useful, important, and mostly neat. Life caching is the evolutionary transition that will need to occur as the data portability movement takes place. Tools unfortunately to do any type of life caching are terrible at this time. I have some wordpress plugins that I 'm cutting my PHP learning teeth on that have lots of bugs that I need to streamline - if the object of most of these plugins came from the lifestreaming design instead of spam blog design (repurposing RSS feeds can go both ways) then this small faction of belief in saving our own data can grow.

Dang - sometimes I'm just too long winded.

P.S. Lifestreaming is becoming a verb maybe in a few more years it will be up there with w00t and in the dictionary.

I really hope the industry catches up with this idea - I'll get at least one more of those promised life caching articles out this week.

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