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Re: Should People Kill Their Blogs in Favor of Lifestreaming?

colocation — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:31:28 -0000

I think it would be boring

Re: Should People Kill Their Blogs in Favor of Lifestreaming?

traeblain — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:15:27 -0000

I'm glad you addressed this because I've been mulling this over in my mind for a long time. I agree that the blog shouldn't be erased or replaced with lifestreaming. I also agree that if you just had a blog as a diary of life then a lifestream is most likely ok. But I also think that the average everyday blogger should evolve as well. Blog sites that cover news/tech/music/politics/etc. are great they way they are being run, with these microblogging tools like Twitter supplementing their work. I also praise Scoble for his return to his long format blog, as that was how he got his following and what they want to read. Rubel's decisions to the short format may bite him in the end.

I also have a little problem with Rubel's choice of "Lifestream" for his new format. Looking at his Posterous site, I see it more as a short format blog (ie tumblelog -esque) than a true lifestream. It's my opinion that people that blog for the sake of blogging, or just because they enjoy the writing, or just for whatever should move to the short format style. Just like Rubel's Posterous or anyone's Tumblr. It's not only easier for people to digest, but it's easier to keep active and it sill allows you to post the long format posts from time to time. (But that's just my opinion...hehe) Rubel's so-called "lifestream" is just that, a mini-blog, a tumblelog, or a short format blog. It does not fit the definition of a lifestream. I know it's nit picky, but it sort of annoys me.

Keep up the good work, Mark!

Re: Should People Kill Their Blogs in Favor of Lifestreaming?

needcaffeine — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:47:33 -0000

yes & no. If your blog is about you & your adventures then yes, give it up & lifestream(though I don't particularly like that buzzword)

if you're writing about a topic, & there's minimal personfication, then no. I read a lot of different blogs, which I don't think would be as interesting or as easy to follow if they were spread out all over the place. (E.g., foodie, storage, travel)

Re: Should People Kill Their Blogs in Favor of Lifestreaming?

netZoo — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:01:05 -0000

Lifestreaming is all about complacency. I admit -- I rarely blog anymore. But I rely on others who do. Complacency will kill the internets - we'll all be singing Row row row your boat in rounds if life is but a stream.

Re: Search for Beatiful Dynamic Visual Lifestream Pages with Spezify

jessicamullen — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:57:42 -0000

i agree about needing to sort chronologically... or in other ways: color, duration, relevance?

viewzi's filtering options seem quite interesting, reminds me i need to be tagging my photos better...

Re: Search for Beatiful Dynamic Visual Lifestream Pages with Spezify

traeblain — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:41:53 -0000

I was surprised at the speed in which the site ran. Vewzi is great, but it is often a bit slow to search. Spezify brought results to the front page almost immediately.

I would be a little concerned about making it a lifestream generator both for the time based problem, as well as some wonky results it provides. Searching "traeblain" brings up a couple crazy results, that have nothing to do with me. (Incidently dropping of MSN search from the list cleared 80% of it up.)

Re: Search for Beatiful Dynamic Visual Lifestream Pages with Spezify

krynsky — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:09:20 -0000

Hey Austin. I totally agree that being able to filter the search results by a timeframe to get recent results would further improve using it as a Lifestream generator.

Re: Search for Beatiful Dynamic Visual Lifestream Pages with Spezify

ozten — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:01:36 -0000

Great post Mark. The search engine has a good algorithm for how it mixes up results... makes for nice collages like you said.

On a more practical note, it would be good if it had a "most recent" view so that you could get timely results on a topic.

Re: Squarespace to Offer Lifestreaming Functionality Soon

esquareda — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:27:32 -0000

Thanks for the mention, Mark!

I need to correct you on one small detail, however. I am not a Squarespace staffer, but a designer chosen to Beta test the Lifestream features of Squarespace... and awesome features they are!

Re: Squarespace to Offer Lifestreaming Functionality Soon

laserone — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:38:28 -0000

See, I always thought of a "lifestream" as a page that links to your entire online -history- (as opposed to current social network activity). I made a page like that which links to all my archived websites and blogs and moblogs going back to 1996 and I call that my "lifestream".

Re: Lifestreaming Lite at Correlate.us

Watt — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:34:41 -0000

Hi Mark, thanks much. very helpful...seems like motion can provide single sign in access that would allow the user to see friend's profiles across multiple social networks. thanks again. also looking for a super smart developer that could help me on a project in this space. any ideas?

Re: Lifestreaming Lite at Correlate.us

facebook-508050968 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:07:24 -0000

Hey Watt. There are currently two such solutions that I'm aware of. There's BuddyPress which is based on Wordpress MU and then there's Movable Type's Motion.

Re: Lifestreaming Lite at Correlate.us

Watt — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:41:52 -0000

does anyone know of any open source social networking aggregation sites?

Re: Custom Hosted Lifestream Gallery #12

traeblain — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:15:27 -0000

That Heaven France one is awesome! But it also made me feel like I was in a sprint commercial... http://now.sprint.com/widget/

Crazy!

Re: Lifestreaming Presentation at Ignite Cardiff by Tom Beardshaw

rinconrise — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:23:14 -0000

Tom´s tangled up in blue is great.

I installed it and loved it. Now Im trying other themes for a play.

Great page by the way. Loving it

Re: How to Find Local Twitter Users From Your City

Diana — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:17:22 -0000

This google search tip worked. great info. Works well if searching a wider area like a whole city. thanks

Re: Self Hosted Lifestream Gallery #11

tomsk — Mon, 11 May 2009 06:16:10 -0000

Hey thanks for including my site. It's an evolution from Yongfook's Boxy theme for Sweetcron. I packed it up as a theme (Tangled Up in Blue) - it's available for download here: http://www.tombeardshaw.com/items/view/710

Re: Self Hosted Lifestream Gallery #11

krynsky — Sat, 09 May 2009 21:38:02 -0000

That's very cool Craig, I didn't see signs of Drupal. I'm also an avid user of Drupal for work. Thanks for the details.

Re: Self Hosted Lifestream Gallery #11

Craig — Sat, 09 May 2009 09:25:19 -0000

Hey thanks for including my site! Kudos to Yong Fook I first saw a lifestream through a random web-search that landed on his site.

My sites code is only sudo-custom :)
It is based on drupal with some contributed modules
Off the top of my head I used:
CCK
Views
Image Cache
Feed API
Feed API Mapper
EMfield
thickbox
contemplate
And probably some others I am forgetting...
And some custom CSS and basic XHTML

Re: Review of Great New Premium Wordpress Theme Designed for Lifestreamers

Dennis — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:30:10 -0000

Thanks for the little tut. Now i finally have the video working!

Re: Self Hosted Lifestream Gallery #11

krynsky — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:05:03 -0000

Agreed. From here on out I shall rename these to "Custom Lifestream Gallery". So let it be written...so let it be done. :)

Re: Self Hosted Lifestream Gallery #11

yongfook — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:58:26 -0000

Then you're talking about "customised" or "cool-looking" lifestreams -
not "self-hosted".

Not a huge problem, just your title is misleading.

Re: Lifestream vs. Socialstream: A Battle of Nomenclature

giannii — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:54:45 -0000

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Re: Lifestream vs. Socialstream: A Battle of Nomenclature

giannii — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:54:28 -0000

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Re: Self Hosted Lifestream Gallery #11

krynsky — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:51:41 -0000

While I haven't personally used Squarespace, from what I've gathered they are basically a combination platform / hosting provider. Ultimately you still have the flexibility to customize and create your own distinct looking Lifestream using the service. This has been the distinction I've used for these galleries.

To further confuse things and blur the lines even more, you really have the ability to use services such as Tumblr & Storytlr to customize a Lifestream design and even map to your own domain while still hosting on their server.

Basically I use these galleries to highlight unique Lifestreams that can't be generated using services such as FriendFeed, Lifestream.fm, Iminta, and other "fixed design" services. Hopefully that clarifies things a bit.

Take a look at Tyler's Lifestream (which I discovered after his comment above) on Squarespace and I think it definitely is worthy of the distinction.