Ask Slashdot: Do You Find Self Tracking Useful Like Stephen Wolfram Does?

New submitter Manzanita writes "The domain of personal analytics, or 'Quantified Self,' is rich with interesting things to measure and many hackers have started projects. But they will only take off if it is sufficiently easy to gather and use the data. Stephen Wolfram has collected and analyzed a lot of his personal data over the last 20 years, but that is far beyond what most of us have the time for. What do you find worth tracking? What is ripe for developing into a business?"

1. I track how much time...

[forkfail]

... I spend reading articles about tracking things that I track.

2. ???

3. Profit!

Re:No

[Anrego]

.. and I guess I enjoy abruptly ending posts mid paragraph with no final conclusion!

Re:No

[forkfail]

I wouldn't sweat the whole ending posts mid paragraph thing. Sometimes I

Re:No

[ColdWetDog]

Burma Shave.

For important stuff ...

[PPH]

... Slashdot does it for me.

Modded

1. Off Topic: 57 times this month
2. Troll: 23 times this month
3. Flamebait: 86 times this month
4. Informative: 3 times this month

Sorry about that last one, folks. I'll try to do better next time.

Re:Not tolerable for the average person

[Ihmhi]

It's bad enough when MMO's and Steam made it possible to see your playtime. :)

It's worse when you treat it like a high score.

"Ha, 5,000 hours in Diablo II! Suck on that, friends I no longer have!"

-sobs quietly-