Could lifestreaming be the next generation in terms of blogging? We'll explore how this is done integrating WordPress and other tools to create a seamless picture of your life for others to follow along to. This presentation was given at WordCamp Montreal held July 11-12, 2009.

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)