[sorryitstrue]

My point is, people's minds aren't caught up to the scale of data, and I don't think there is a technology solution for it. We now have more data and more technology but it's not solving the problem.

Hell I don't always know where I'm going to put all the groceries I take home.

EDIT - to add - too much data isn't really useful. When we are talking personal data collection it's basically a librarian's job, which is non-trivial

[jakeywankenobi]

> My point is, people's minds aren't caught up to the scale of data, and I don't think there is a technology solution for it.

I totally agree with the general thrust of this argument. I'd like to hear more about use cases for this kind of personally-owned, aggregated data store. Once this article started talking about searching over, say, notes and highlights from articles and blog posts, I started to see specific use cases that seem totally compelling. However, it's not clear to me how this part of the data ownership conversation matches up with the seemingly more principles-driven data ownership conversation.

Theoretically there's nothing stopping you from building some of these more specific implementations (which the author has done--btw those projects looks really cool).

[choward]

> Hell I don't always know where I'm going to put all the groceries I take home

Just don't buy so many groceries. Jk. Actually, I have started working on a project that would help solve this problem (in combination with solving others). It's just nowhere near ready and won't be for a while.

> too much data isn't really useful

That's not what all the companies building huge data centers are saying.

> When we are talking personal data collection it's basically a librarian's job

I'm not really sure I understand this point. What do librarian's have to do with this?