Ok, yes this topic was tossed around a few days ago, and I only found the discussion yesterday. A lifestream is simply a page that aggregates your online works, be they blog posts, videos, pictures, comments, Facebook statuses, etc…
The ability to have one place where all your online contributions to “the great conversation” are kept in chronological order. Basically like a “river of news” format pioneered by Dave Winer.
Since a number of people, including Twitter budz Josh Bancroft (who started the idea), Dan York and Steve Rubel, have created one – I thought I’d play the follower here and give it a try. Using Tumblr, much as the rest have, I created my lifestream blog in about 5 minutes. Drop dead easy. An additional 15 minutes and I had lifestream.rickmahn.com set up to take you there.
One of the streams I want to add is my coComment feed. coComment is a comment tracking service, and does a pretty good job of it. The only problem is that the feed includes comments by other people who’ve commented on the same post. There is probably a way to disable that, or filter the other comments out – but I didn’t find it in the 5 minutes I allotted myself.
At any rate, I think that the lifestream idea has real value for anyone who is interested in what your perspectives are, or following you online. Below I’ve included some other bloggers that have commented on the idea or have created their own lifestream.
So I’m curious, what do you think of the lifestream idea?
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Great post! Thanks! coComment just launched a new version, V2 Beta, which adds much more functionality than just tracking comments, such as easy discover and share of comments/conversations with friends and the community, private and public groups, etc. If you have any feedback or questions about the service, feel free to contact me at kristina@cocomment.com. Thanks! Kristina
Great post! Thanks! coComment just launched a new version, V2 Beta, which adds much more functionality than just tracking comments, such as easy discover and share of comments/conversations with friends and the community, private and public groups, etc. If you have any feedback or questions about the service, feel free to contact me at kristina@cocomment.com. Thanks! Kristina
I think my post Ideastreaming … a concept http://www.winextra.com/2007/08/26/ideastreaming-a-concept/ pretty well covers how I feel about the whole thing
I think my post Ideastreaming … a concept http://www.winextra.com/2007/08/26/ideastreaming-a-concept/ pretty well covers how I feel about the whole thing
Steven, I just got done reading your post – interesting perspective. I do have a feeling that a lifestream will have varying success – depending on the blogger I think. The whole discussion of tags, however, is one that I totally agree with and hope to be able to add value to as the idea progresses. Hopefully services, like Twitter, will start enabling the use of such in a simple API that others can leverage.
Kristina, thank you for stopping by and offering help on coComment. I will be looking to find a way to filter out certain comments from my coComment RSS feed, so any help is welcome!
Steven, I just got done reading your post – interesting perspective. I do have a feeling that a lifestream will have varying success – depending on the blogger I think. The whole discussion of tags, however, is one that I totally agree with and hope to be able to add value to as the idea progresses. Hopefully services, like Twitter, will start enabling the use of such in a simple API that others can leverage.
Kristina, thank you for stopping by and offering help on coComment. I will be looking to find a way to filter out certain comments from my coComment RSS feed, so any help is welcome!
Good synthesis and thoughts, Rick. I’m pretty sure you can limit the coComment feed to just your own comments. I think that’s how I have mine set up in Google Reader, anyway. Ping me if you need help.
Also, no need to call it a lifestream/ideastream – not that it’s wrong to call it that either, just that you can call it whatever you wish.
Another interesting thing is that you can easily create something like this to “stalk” (let’s hope in a positive way) another person around the Web. And of course, you could throw followers off your trail by using unexpected user names, having friends/employees do some publishing under your name, etc. It opens a whole new bag.
Good synthesis and thoughts, Rick. I’m pretty sure you can limit the coComment feed to just your own comments. I think that’s how I have mine set up in Google Reader, anyway. Ping me if you need help.
Also, no need to call it a lifestream/ideastream – not that it’s wrong to call it that either, just that you can call it whatever you wish.
Another interesting thing is that you can easily create something like this to “stalk” (let’s hope in a positive way) another person around the Web. And of course, you could throw followers off your trail by using unexpected user names, having friends/employees do some publishing under your name, etc. It opens a whole new bag.
Easton, there has to be a way to filter my coComment stream. I just haven’t spent more than 5 minutes to figure it out yet.
I agree that with some thought there will be many interesting uses for business for “lifestream” thought it would be called something else in that context.
Easton, there has to be a way to filter my coComment stream. I just haven’t spent more than 5 minutes to figure it out yet.
I agree that with some thought there will be many interesting uses for business for “lifestream” thought it would be called something else in that context.