Turns out it's called lifestreaming
January 19th, 2008
I've spent a lot of time this week thinking about exactly what I want to do with this site. I gradually built a mental image that combined all my public "stuff". It would suck in feeds of my activity from all over the net, whether I used twitter, or tumblr, or facebook, or del.icio.us, or whatever else happened to be useful. All that stuff would get combined and displayed in interesting, useful ways (to me at least, and hopefully to others too) right here.
Just as I was figuring all this out and getting really interested in the whole thing, this article about lifestreaming came along (with a link to the very interesting Lifestream Blog). So all my great ideas already have a nice name and everything. Figures. In hindsight, I can remember lots of news over the years about lifestreaming and life recording, but the term itself doesn't ring a bell. The way I had it pictured in my head, though, it was a world of too-much-information. Not something I was interested in.
Now that I've come up with it myself, though, it sounds fantastic. At least, when I do it my way... So this site will be my playground for whatever crazy lifestreaming ideas I have or I find on the interwebs. Should be interesting. Lifestreaming actually meshes really nicely with a project I've been playing with in my head for years, so there's lots more of this crap to look forward to.
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January 22nd, 2008 at 08:02 AM I'll give you the fact that your earlier thoughts on life streaming is correct - it is too much information. That being said - you need to look at who this is for. Most people don't care about everything I do and I've pruned my RSS feeds that I give to the public down so they only get the useful information. I archive and save this data for myself - and like the pictures people take of their children growing up, there is never a thing as too much information. It may be too much information at this point in time - but when personal data mining takes place in a few years as the next hot trend - and archive of this data will be very useful to find trends of different points of your life that you may otherwise forget (or wished you would have forgotten but google reminds everyone anyways).
January 22nd, 2008 at 05:52 PM
Thanks for your comments, Creeva. I actually agree with you completely. Having all my data in a nice explorable place opens up all kinds of really interesting possibilities. Controlling what gets into my public lifestream (or other streams for friends, family, etc.) is just part of it.