Lifestream: The New Future of Blogging?

Lifestreaming: The New Future of Blogging? Erin Blaskie www.ErinBlaskie.com www.bsetc.ca

Lifestreaming: What is it? • Lifestreaming is a continual broadcast of events in a person's life through digital media. • Lifestreaming is the act of aggregating many streams, generally using a third party service that then shows the content in chronological order.

Lifestreaming: Why? • People are feeling the “need” to utilize all of these different sites but there is no automation or system to it. • Building a lifestream creates order in the midst of real life chaos.

Lifestreaming: Why? • Provides readers with a snapshot of the blogger’s life providing a much more in-depth look into what they are doing, reading and listening to. • Allows blogger to share things quickly, easily and effectively with readers.

Lifestream: Incoming Data

Incoming: What am I listening to?

Incoming: What am I reading?

Incoming: What am I browsing online?

Incoming: Where am I traveling?

Incoming: What am I shooting via video?

Incoming: What am I taking pictures of?

The Mobile Generation • Incoming information needs to also be portable, mobile and easily addable to your lifestream. • In this next diagram, an iPhone is being used as the basis due to the sheer number of apps.

The Mobile Approach

Outgoing Information • Once the information comes in to the blog, you need to syndicate it out to the various feeds / websites you belong to. • This is known as notifying your tribes that you’ve done a new action (also known as enabling stalkers to keep tabs on you…)

Lifestream Style Plug-Ins for WP • Lifestream - Pulls in data from many sources and produces a grid-like image of your updates. • My TwitPic’s - Displays recently uploaded pictures to TwitPic.com. • Sociable - Automatically adds links to favorite social bookmarking / networking sites. • Tweetly Updater - Posts a notice to Twitter when you update your blog.

External Widgets Added to Sidebar • Ustream video embed code. • TripIt ‘upcoming trips’ embed code. • Twitter widget. • Blip.fm widget. • Shelfari ‘currently reading’ embed code.

Anatomy of the Lifestream

Why Could This Be the Future of Blogging? • We’re sharing so much information that we need systems / automation to save time. • People are finding amazing things through the act of sharing - this allows that to happen in a one to many scenario.

Choices • We all have a choice as to how much we share. • We all can make choices about our open life experience. • Choose something that fits for you and create your tribes in an authentic way.

Closing Ideas • We need to come up with a balanced approach to this and ensure people know that they can turn the volume up or down to suit their life. • By making people more transparent, do we open up a positive outlook on lives or do we open up negative possibilities?

Learn More & Questions • www.LifeStreamInColor.com (Life Stream) • www.BSETC.ca (Business) • @ErinBlaskie (Twitter)

Lifestream: The New Future of Blogging?

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