The FATcast

Lifelogging? You’re soaking in it! All our Facebook oversharing (all those selfies and food photos and vacation snapshots and status updates) collectively form a kind of lifelog. A lifelogging camera takes that behavior – that accidental lifelogging we’re already doing – and makes it more competent, more complete, and more honest. Social media posts tend to be theater. We share our lives not as they are, but as we want others to believe they are. Or, we share only the events we believe are important enough. The result is that everybody’s posts skew fabulous or wonderful, even as our lives are inevitably filled with the mundane or negative moments we never share. A lifelog using automated cameras captures everything, and can record a fuller and more detailed set of memories than facebook feeds can. I’ve been fascinated by Narrative and their tiny camera ever since they launched in 2012. And it was great speaking with Narrative co-founder Oskar Kalmaru about why they got into this business in the first place, and how they think about everything you can do with their product. Listen: https://ia601508.us.archive.org/23/items/fatcast5/fatcast5.mp3

Author of “The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour Through America’s Food,” Matthew G. Frank his book and about food, travel and life. Listen: https://ia601503.us.archive.org/15/items/fatcast4/fatcast4.mp3

David Asher is a cheese maker and educator, an organic farmer and author of “The Art of Natural Cheesemaking: Using Traditional, Non-Industrial Methods and Raw Ingredients to Make the World’s Best Cheeses.” In this episode, I talk to David about his radical, brilliant and possibly illegal methods for making cheese at home. Listen:  https://ia601509.us.archive.org/27/items/fatcast3/fatcast3.mp3

My guest this week is Lucian Copeland, one of the founders of NullSpace VR, a startup that’s building a haptic jacket and gloves for virtual reality. Listen:  https://ia801507.us.archive.org/35/items/fatcast2/fatcast2.mp3

In my premier episode, I talk to the guy who created the Minority Report UI about the future of user interfaces, and bread.  Listen:  https://ia801501.us.archive.org/28/items/fatcast1_201512/fatcast1.mp3