The Steve Rubel Stream

Insights on emerging technologies and trends.

Why a Lifestream and Not a Blog - #1 in a Series

People are asking me tonight why switch from a popular blog to a brand new lifestream site with no Google juice and hardly any subscribers (although I am redirecting the feed). The reason is expression...

I can quickly post whatever is on my mind and do it via email from anywhere I may be in the world. Things like this (via)...

Lifestreaming Definitition

And it will syndicate it wherever I want it to go, like these sites...


...or any of these...
A blog is more structured. It's posts. This is freestyle.
Loading mentions Retweet
Posted 8 months ago
11 comments
Jun 26, 2009
Albert Maruggi said...
it makes complete sense, especially if you believe, as you do, that the social ecosystem will evolve. All of the digital Steve will be available, it will be in neater piles to sort through and search.

In terms of ease of use, who needs to mess around with resizing photos, getting flash audio players to work, etc, etc, etc

thanks for the tip.

Jun 26, 2009
Sean Brady said...
I have been reading your posts on moving to Posterous with quite a bit of interest. I very much like the concept of seeing something, either online or IRL and simply making a quick post about it. Include a screenshot, or photo or even video. That's all pretty awesome.

I am a little unsure on your workflow though as it relates to this change, and would love to see some discussion to that point. How will you day go working with Twitter and FriendFeed? I guess you will flow most of your find through Posterous and out to FriendFeed and Twitter?

I always enjoyed your articles on working with Gmail as a central nervous system, looking forward to seeing some similar discussion with the move here. Good Luck.

Jun 26, 2009
James Poling said...
I've been considering a move like this for a few weeks. I was a very early adopter of Posterous and the advancements they have made are pretty amazing.

I have been considering for many of the same reasons you state above. Their ability to handle anything on the fly and post it to where it needs to go.

Thanks for sharing your insight on this.

Jun 26, 2009
So, how did you get the domain name pointing to their service?
Jun 26, 2009
Sean Brady said...
They did a very nice job of making the domain name and google analytics integration easy.
Jun 26, 2009
Alex Williams said...
I moved to Tumblr for the same reason. Why did you choose Posterus? Have you looked at the services like Tarpipe? My question is how these services differ. I see little difference between Posterus and Tumblr. Tarpipe seems more unique in it acts like a Yahoo Pipes in reverse.
Jun 26, 2009
James Poling said...
Thanks again Steve. I'm currently waiting for jamespoling.me to propegate and point to my posterous site. I'm keeping jamespoling.com up for archive sake (and in case I get cold feet) but I'm going to give it a go.
Jun 26, 2009
Jim Nichols said...
I'm trying something to this effect in my state house campaign in GA... what does it mean to be a candidate/elected official in the modern age... http://jimnichols.posterous.com/jimn2010-readers-email
Jul 13, 2009
Mark said...
Seamless integration.
Sep 21, 2009
Militello said...
Very Good.

Leave a comment...

 
Got an account with one of these? Login here, or just enter your comment below.
Posterous-login    Connect    twitter