Lifestreaming involves aggregating updates from various online accounts and sharing them chronologically. It provides readers a snapshot into someone's life by sharing what they are doing, reading, listening to, browsing, traveling, shooting videos of, and taking pictures of. As people share more online, lifestreaming offers a way to organize and automate sharing updates from many sources at once. While it increases transparency, lifestreaming also allows more control over how much one chooses to share with others.

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Lifestream: Incoming Data

6. Incoming:
What am I listening to?

7. Incoming:
What am I reading?

8. Incoming:
What am I browsing online?

9. Incoming:
Where am I traveling?

10. Incoming:
What am I shooting
via video?

11. Incoming:
What am I taking pictures of?

12. 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.

13. The Mobile Approach

14. 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…)

16. 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.

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

18. Anatomy of the Lifestream

19. Anatomy of the Lifestream

20. Anatomy of the Lifestream

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. 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?

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