Blogging is Lifestreaming?

June 28th, 2009 | Blogging, Social Media, Social Networking

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Jeremiah Owyang brings up the question, is blogging becoming lifestreaming. It’s a dang good question. Bloggers across the net have taken to using their blogs as a collection point for all of their various Twitter, Friendfeed and other sources. They’ve become aggregation points.

The truth is though that’s a skewed view. Blogging is changing in it’s use. In a way, some folks are taking it back to its roots, the self centered story. Blogs have long been personal bandstands and stories. Tech focused blogs or real estate blogs are really still on the edge of the curve in my opinion.

What’s really happened is that folks have found more effective methods of sharing links, stories, and pictures. They’ve also discovered video, podcasts, and other formats. The push to push out all your ‘content’ via the blog is changing. Blogs aren’t the end all and be all, they’re just another tool in the box.

Myself? I’m actually not lifestreaming via the blog. That’s what I do with Twitter and Facebook. The blog is more focused on a few topics. As a matter of fact, I actually have a few blogs and contribute to a couple other parenting focused blogs. Less anecdotal.

How about you? Has your blog taken to being a life story, an aggregation of your other output? Or are you still blogging on topic?

Jeremiah’s original article

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Bakari

I would say that my blogs are 100 percent 'on topic,' but I give myself a wide berth on coverage. I feel my readers visit for what I promise I would provide and may began to feel cheated if I deviate too much.

Versa Dave

I have a few "blogs" that I contribute to.

I keep a fairly updated site called http://planetmills.com that houses my pictures and stories of personal events in my life, that are mostly related to family and close friends. I don't advertise it alot but if someone really wanted to follow it...so be it.

My other blog, http://bingbonghotdog.com is my outlet...it's my animalistic artsy fartsy side being cut loose so that I don't go stir crazy. Sometimes the articles relate to lifestreaming I suppose and other times, they're just about ramblings in my head or my opinion of what's going on today.

fak3r

I've had this with my blog, and I still haven't completely decided how I want to deal with it. My blog posts have really declined since I've started with Twitter, but I think that's good; things that are not a blog post don't need to be, but still, I want it to be part of my blog. I have a lifestream plugin populating a page, http://fak3r.com/lifestream-2/, but these are dropped after a few days, and I don't really like the daily digest option of putting all those in a new post each day, that's not readable. Another thing I've done is create a separate category called asides where I try to make those posts more like what you'd find on a Tumblr or Posterous site, those simple/quick posts be it a link, text, video or image. Still, I don't have these as integrated as I'd like and I don't want multiple blogs, fak3r is me, it's everything I'm interested in, why shouldn't it include microformats? Again, I think it should, but how...I'm still working on that.

Blogging is Lifestreaming?

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