"For me, I’m going to respect the needs of my community, and keep on blogging to distill what I think is important."
There have been a number of posts since I wrote yesterday that I am quitting blogging in favor of lifestreaming. A few of you wrote in comments that you're dropping the RSS feed. I want to clarify a little more what this means. It's not more noise, less signal.
For my purposes, a lifestream is really a thought-stream consisting of insights, links, videos, photos and more. While some just lifestream in order to post a lot, I promise you I am going to only share quality bits about emerging technology trends. However, the difference is, that not every item will be an essay. It's different than Jeremiah's approach, summarized above.
I like to think of a lifestreaming as today's digital equivalent of Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks. (Make no mistake, I am no Da Vinci nor do I think of myself in such a way. It's purely an aspirational metaphor.) Da Vinci recorded notes, drawings, questions and more in his notebooks. Some of these were quite mundane (grocery lists and doodles), others were not. But the body of work was over time, a view of a one individual's mind (in his case a great one).
My lifestream is not the same. But but the model is. I promise you that if you join me for the journey, we will learn about emerging technology trends together through links, images, video and audio. The difference though between this and a blog is that you will be right there with me as learn about and process new information, doodle about it in my online journal and and share/express my observations in real-time.
That is what will make this format different than my blog - especially the short bits, photos, videos and sound.
(Image credit : Wikipedia.)
