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Lifestreaming your blog - is it worth

August

5th

Roy

What is next to blogging? Lifestreaming?

Sarah Perez from ReadWriteWeb published a post yesterday titled “The Future of Blogging Revealed”. She was talking about Lifestreaming [eg. SweetCorn] - the next generation blogging.

What happens there? You can read the post to get some idea. But let’s think where we are moving with Lifestreaming! Is there any fundamental change?

Why blogs came into existence is a different issue but we all know that how it is perceived today. Something that had been just a personal diary is now a big communication tool.

And more importantly, organizations are using it to bring a personal touch in their business. How does it happen?

Successful blogs try to show off the person behind the blog - what he does; his regular life; habits; likings etc. Those blogs and posts try to portray the social self of the blogger or the organization involved with that blog.

But web is not all about blogs - there are other platforms like micro blogs, networks, forums and obviously bookmarking solutions. To add to this, another very common trend today is feed sharing (what you are reading is no more a secret - people are sharing them via Google reader).

And your personality is actually split into all those spaces.

Last year (October 2007) we had, SEZ WHO, a tool that tried to link someone’s comments in a single thread to identify his or her worth as a commenter in different blogs. And then we had BlogCatalog, MyBlogLog, FriendFeed etc. - they tried to accumulate someone’s overall web presence in a single page.

All these are actually following simple proverb - action determines a person. Your overall web-presence is developing your identity. And that’s what “Lifestreaming” is doing.

But is it good enough as a complete blog?

I don’t think so - to the most it can be a widget - the real worth is still the content you are producing (not something that you are accumulating from different parts of the web).

And there is not alternative to good content.