Legacy 2.0: the democratization of history and the future of stories

legacy 2.0 the democratization of history and future of stories... by: tara ‘missrogue’ hunt

legacy: what we are remembered for (and by whom)

the history of legacy

democratized

inaccessible

“Let me imagine...what would have happened had Shakespeare had a wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith, let us say.”

more accessible

democratized

“we’re writing our histories one blog post at a time.” David Weinberger, 2004

twitter 18m + estimated ‘users’ 57% women 35-54 year olds represent the largest twitter population 50 million tweets sent per day ~75M unique visits to twitter.com in January 2010 75% all Twitter activity comes from 5% of users 94% of Twitter users have <100 followers 92% follow <100 others stats from: eMarketer Aug09, Harvard Study June09, Brian Solis Oct09, ComScore Sep09

date: March 4, 2010 @7:55pm by @bitstrategist at http://twitpic.com/16n7gp

facebook >400m + estimated active ‘users’ 3.5 million events created each month 35 million users update their status daily 5 billion pieces of content shared each week 60 million status updates posted every day 3 billion photos are posted every month stats from: Facebook public Statistics March 2010

social networks SN’s more popular than email (67% - 65%) Women are more active in most SN’s (avg 53%) Social networks are more popular than porn Social networks are likely to overtake search soon Amount of time spent on FB increased 566% in 09 stats from: Neilsen Mar09,

twitter: ~32,000 facebook: 3,900 ﬂickr: 1,000+ foursquare: 2,050 blippy: 122

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/anonymous9000/4281777022

15 in this future, we’ll all be famous for 15 people...

perception world events (context) memory (story) experience (feeling) complex history

feelings what I’m experiencing now

stories what happened to me

homelessness

living thru war

motherhood

context what was going on in the world

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/12/27/opinion/28opchart.html world events

#hashtags

rickrolling

“lipstick on a pig”

perception how others saw it

authenticity

honesty

opinion

whufﬁe

I ‘Googled’ TM you

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me } we

personal legacy http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/stewtopia/3355277605/

when I die, what will become of my legacy?

? http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/101793493/

digital executor credit to: Adele Mcalear, http://www.deathanddigitallegacy.com/

generational legacy http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/envios/519041281/

we are writing our history 1 blog post, tweet, photo, video, poke and so on at a time...

diversity

3D history books?

“A local legend around Salt Lake City. No one is sure what it means that this woman was "Victim of the Beast 666" but many have tried to ﬁnd out!” http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/nomigraphics/1351654737/

possibility

preserve

navigate http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/geebee2007/3516653918/

create more of this?

discover http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/nedtriﬂe/2459202797/

augmented reality exists

legacy 2.0: bringing the content in the digital world into the physical world to preserve, navigate and discover lives & legacies...

tara ‘missrogue’ hunt horsepigcow@gmail.com 514-679-2951 twitter: @missrogue skype: sanfranrogue http://www.horsepigcow.com http://www.thewhufﬁefactor.com

http://www.slideshare.net/missrogue images from: http://www.shutterstock.com, http://www.istockphoto.com (unless marked from Flickr.com)

Legacy 2.0: the democratization of history and the future of stories

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