BreakAway Digital

One of my favorite bloggers from the far east just had a great presentation on lifestreaming. I have been toying with new ways of blogging over the past year and his speech came a perfect time to get me to write this post. So that brings me to lifestreaming. What is it?

Well the all knowing wikipedia says it’s; “Lifecasting is a continual broadcast of events in a person’s life through digital media.”

My definition of lifestreaming is pulling all of my digital properties and showing them in one central location. Whether it be social networks like twitter, flickr, and linkedin. Then there is my blog, delicious and more. I’m not sure about you but I have a ton of digital accounts. Sure many of them I use only a handful of times and forget about them. Others I post regularly. The problem is that most of my friends/family don’t know where all of my sites are. How do you resolve that? Pull them all into one site. Sure you can use friendfeed but I still prefer to have my own site.

That brings me to my overall point. Over the past year I have had barely anytime for any personal projects. Sure I’ve redesigned my site a couple of times, that’s my OCD. That is why Tumblr came at a great time. I post most of my content directly from my iPhone. Takes less times and works well for my random little thoughts. Also Twitter has been useful to get those little thoughts out as well. What I haven’t had time to do is publish full blog posts like this one.

We’re seeing a lot more blogs taking this approach because people just don’t have time to write fully thought-out blog posts. I agree with yongfook that lifestreaming is a lot more honest than regular blogging. He also points out that if you post a ton you might have information overload for your visitors. I’ve defintely experienced this with a few blogs. I no longer read them because I don’t want to sift through a lot of bogus content to get to good content. PLEASE keep that in mind when taking this approach.

I’ve even taken the lifestream approach with a couple of clients. My team recently relaunched the GM FYI blog to be shorter posts and more focused on photos/videos.

I think that we are going to see more blogs taking this approach as people have less time to create content for their site but do have time to document their life.