One of the things that all of us with blogs struggle with is equal coverage for all of the great people in our lives. You see, even a moderately active blog gives the impression that its owner is doing stuff all the time. But life is filled with a billion more things than are covered on blogs... or even in micro-blogging like Twitter. So a lot gets lost.
What's difficult is when you lose things without parity. A couple of examples from recent memory. I went to lunch with Paul Carriere one day and Paul Kindzia another day. But I only managed to blog about the lunch with Mr. Carriere. I noted that Josh Shields started blogging but I neglected to mention that Michael Bennett was too.
I'm sure that neither Paul Kindzia nor Michael Bennett was offended. I'm sure neither gave it a second thought. Over time though, these sorts of inequalities could cause one of them to say "hey, wait a minute, does Joe not like me?" (Of course not.) But that's not the point of the post. The point is that I'd like to give equal coverage to everybody and everything.
The underlying theory of blogging... well, my form of lifeblogging at least... is that you try to capture your life so that you can remember things later on in life. So a good test of how good a job I'm doing would be to take two similar events and see if they both appear. If one appears then it's clearly at a threshold of relevance to be captured. And that means that the other similar event should be captured too.
Of course, it never works out like that. When and what I blog isn't just about the things I do... it's also about when I have time to sit down and capture things, what mood I'm in, whether the servers are acting up, etc. One advantage of the moblogging/micro-blogging from the cell phone is that the threshold is much lower so I capture a blurb about more things. But I've stepped away from that format a little bit lately... my main concern being the organization of the content on the site.
Anyhow, I didn't actually want to dig into this in much detail... just wanted to note that it's an issue I'm sure we're all dealing with. Blogging is a new form of social interaction (compared to phones and fax machines) so I like to note these little quirks.
The end solution, at least for me, is some sort of recording device that I wear around my neck. I've seen mockups/prototypes. They respond to your heart rate... when you get excited they start recording live audio and video. You can then tag/organize/extract the video later on. It's a more fashion-acceptable version of the helmetcam Hunter brought into play.
Heading to Doc with Terp