Nicholas Felton

Nicholas Felton

For the last nine years, Nicholas Felton—who you may know best for inspiring the Facebook timeline or creating the life-logging app Reporter—has been recording some aspect of almost every moment of his life. And each year, he turns this data into a elegant, printed book that visualizes the year called The Feltron Report. (See 2011 here and 2012 here.)’

“IN SMS ALONE, I AM CONSUMING AND COMPOSING SEVERAL NOVELS A YEAR.”

‘His 2013 report was released yesterday, and while his past efforts have tracked minutia like beers drank and places on the globe visited, this time, Felton was even more ambitious, tracking every bit of communication—be it a spoken or nonverbal acknowledgement, SMS, Facebook message, telephone call, email, or the paper stuff. That’s 94,842 interactions containing 7,673,242 words in all, requiring an painstaking amount of work just to archive.’

I saw this and thought it was amazing for someone to be able create and log their conversations that they have had within a year. The graphics also used in creating this are simply stunning and very interesting. It makes you want to carry on and read more on the subject.

This creation was composed into a book and can even be bought.