Distributed Conversation

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Image via Wikipedia There's been talk in the blogosphere about the effect of lifestreaming applications on blogs and traditional media companies. Forget the advertising issues that RSS raises, for instance. What's ultimately more important is tracking the conversation that begins in one place across multiple networks, making sure that you are somehow ...

Listserv News: Lifestream + Social Network + Email

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

The listserv continues to add members, but right now most of the discussion seems to be Dave Thomas and I sharing some of the tools we find interesting. His email today was so spot on, I thought I'd report it here. What follows is all him: Right now I ...

All Lifestreaming Needs is Air

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

The first time a designer discussed Adobe's AIR with me I was convinced it would change the way we surfed the Web. The open interface (you can develop your own front end to any website), the desktop application, the opportunity to aggregate loads of information in one place -- how could ...

Social Thing: A Beat Lifestreaming Story

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Imagine if you had a journalist, connected to lots of really important people in their field...particularly people who blogged, Facebooked, MySpaced...or whatever. Even better, what if you found the people who did those things even if they weren't the most prominent people. You just found passionate people and collected them in ...

Why Lifestreaming Sucks…

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

I'm all about aggregating yourself online. Right now, we just don't do it very well. There's not an open protocol in all services that allows me to pull feeds from all the different online activities that I do. Instead, I have to run from this application to that application in an ...