It’s hard to believe that the first half of 2012 is gone, bye-bye, seeyalater. I blinked and the year dashed by. Perception, I know, since time flows one second at a time, but still… So a few interesting (to me) stats for the first half of the year, ending June 30: Blogging and social networking:…

Here is another look at some personal analytics data. In this chart, you can see my online activity plotted for 2011: The activity is color-coded and broken into six categories: Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, Instagram, Mobile Photos and Check-ins. Note that this is not a complete set of online activity, but it is everything that gets…

Last week I wrote about how I was impressed by Stephen Wolfram’s article on personal analytics. I provided some stats on my work-related email analytics. But Wolfram’s article impressed me so much that I have started collecting additional personal analytics data, including steps, using a FitBit activity monitor, and keystrokes using some keylogging software. Both…

I was impressed by a recent post by Stephen Wolfram discussing his “personal analytics”; that is, data that is automatically collected about ones self and then analyzed for interesting trends. Wolfram has been capturing such data for two decades and some of what he had to report was fascinating, especially if you like numbers. One…