Here is s a Lifestream plugin written by Chris J Davis for a new blogging platform called Habari (note to self…I need to get me a colophon)

Here’s some tips on how to make a Lifestream useful by Phil Wilson

Steve Jay has provided some tips on creating a Lifestream where he utilizes a tool from The Blog Resource and you can view the finished product as his Lifestream here

Mike Gotta has a nice summary discussing the concepts and several tools on his post Analytics: The Unsung Hero Of Social Systems

Read/WriteWeb provided a preview of a new service that may be used as a Lifestreaming web application that is called Second Brain.

I’ve noticed some intersting stuff about Lifestreaming out there and wanted to point out the people and posts for you.

Jeremy Wagstaff is a columnist for the WSJ. He wrote a story titled Directory of Lifestreaming which he chose to break out from his Diretory of Attention. Both give good overviews and I’m hoping he continues to follow Lifestreaming as it starts breaking new ground.

Chris Saad is a known figure in the Lifestreaming community. Here are his credentials

• Co-Founder at Media 2.0 Workgroup
• Co-Author at APML Workgroup
• Co-Founder and CEO at Faraday Media & Particls.com

That’s quite a portfolio and I’ve just recently downloaded the Particls software and should hopefully have feedback on it soon. In the meantime he wrote a very interesting post on the blog titled “Life after pageviews: Proposing AudientStream and AttentStream” which is an interesting read.

John Tropea runs Library Clips and his post “Meta-identity content, ok then Lifestreams” provides a good overview on Lifestreaming as well as listing a gaggle of services. Furthermore, there are comments left by Chris Saad, Kelly Abbot and a response by John that really gives some great insights into Lifestream that I hadn’t quite listed so eloquently and need to see if John will let me add them to the definition.
Here’s a snip:

I see a lifestream as content I publish, comment and collect…I guess this displays basically what I pay attention to…if I blog, comment and bookmark it, this means this is what I pay attention to.

Sam Sethi is someone I ran into early on in my discovery of Lifestreaming when I read his post on “Lifestreams could help create new personalised discovery engines” and I continue to see him in all the places I hang out. I also came across his post on “Another way to create a lifestream“. He appears to be another Lifestreaming evangelist like the rest of us.

Alex Bisceglie wrote “LifeStreams, an Essay in Progress” which is a great piece talking about the roots and pondering the future.

Here’s a post on Google and Lifestreaming that talks about Google’s new timeline experiment and Lifestreams.

Some nice and unique Lifestream implementations I’ve recently come across can be found at these sites:

• Andy Pearson
• Nick Dunn
• Alex Bisceglie his post on it
• somefoolwitha.com
• Matthewgood.org developed by Dale Mugford
• Dave Brondsema

If you are a reader of this site and find interesting stories or Lifestreams you come across, please send them over by submitting the contact form on my about page.

I’d imagine that most of you have already by now heard of Justin.tv but for the 3 of you that haven’t (wait, that’s my total readership at this point) then you should go check it out. He calls it Lifecasting, although I think of it as Extreme Lifestreaming. Basically this guy mounted a camera on his had and streams his life over the web 24/7. This includes sleeping and limited censoring of his bodily functions.

The site has gotten quite a lot of buzz and Justin was even featured on NPR. His plan is to make a Web TV channel that has hundreds of different people walking around broadcasting their lives the same way he does. Sounds pretty ambitious but I imagine there are plenty of people that would line up for this. So it isn’t very surprising to hear a celebrity state they want to do just that.

Natalie Portman has decided that she wants to be the first celebrity to jump on the Lifecasting bandwagon. She has apparently been seen in Silicon Valley searching for funding so that she can move forward with this. She’s smart to capitilize on Justin’s experiment and I think could take it to a whole new level with some backing behind her. It will be interesting to see if this goes anywhere.

So now I’m curious as to who will be the first celebrity to create a Lifestream. My guess is that if one of the services out there is able to attract a few celebrities to create Lifestreams they would definitely get the buzz they deserve. So Lynn, Kelly, Peterri, and Olivier may you all attract some stars to get Lifestreaming the attention it deserves.

Lifestreaming inevitably always seems to prompt concerns of privacy. The basis for creating a Lifestream first begins by either already using or finding a web service that by design already provides anybody the ability to see our activity. Last.fm allows users to find our profile page and see what music we listen to, while del.icio.us allows users to view our profile to see what we’re bookmarking.

Some sites and services allow you to filter what data you share. Del.icio.us allows you to set a flag to disable sharing every time you bookmark a page and Cluztr allows you to define sites which are private and won’t appear in your linkstream. Basically we, as the authors of our own Lifestreams, choose how open a book we want our lives to be for others to view.

Is Lifestreaming for everyone? No, but I want to nip mis-conceptions about privacy in the bud as quickly and easily as possible so others are more open to the concept. Jon (founder of Cluztr) sent word to me about several new features to his site and of them I quote the following.

Beefed-up privacy
This was the number 1 requested feature and we delivered. Users now have the ability to set the privacy level of their clickstreams. Default setting is public, but now can be set to private so only their friends can view it. Additionally, other new features allow users to distill their clickstreams by tagging sites or pages as “private”. This effectively gives users full control over their own clickstreams.

It’s good to see how users can help shape the quality and privacy of sources for our Lifestreams. And honestly, the data in our Lifestreams are harmless interesting data nuggets compared to the amount of private data about us that we can’t control sitting on corporate computers and hard drives all over the world. So without further ado and with my long-winded spiel. Here’s a snippet from the article on “Why computers must learn to forget”.

If whatever we do can be held against us years later, if all our impulsive comments are preserved, they can easily be combined into a composite picture of ourselves,” he writes in the paper. “Afraid how our words and actions may be perceived years later and taken out of context, the lack of forgetting may prompt us to speak less freely and openly.

I was also impressed to learn what a panopticon is. You can read the rest of the article on Ars Technica

Kelly let me know that his site Dandelife went live with their new “Lifecast” functionality. This new functionality allows you to create a Lifestream. I had written a preview a while back and had been lucky enough to be able to do some testing of the new functionality prior to yesterday’s release. It looks like they also snuck in some other goodies in this release as well. If you have never tried Dandelife you really need to. The Lifecast functionality was added to supplement the already great autobiographical time-line blogging features that they were offering. It is a must site to setup an account on for any self respecting Lifestreamer. You can find me here and look for a full review in the near future.