The Steve Rubel Stream

Why don't you just tag (or auto tag, if possible) things that are more like your old blog and make a feed for those readers?

Steve, If you want us to follow your feed, you may need to check on it. When I try to pull either of these feeds:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/steverubel
http://www.steverubel.com/rss.xml

I get the following error from Google Reader: "null" has no items.

Is this me, or do others have the same problem? Also, the text box for comments could be a smidgen larger so those of us who are verbose can respond.

There is a tag for them but I don't think a feed - yet. Working on that. http://www.steverubel.com/tag/essays

Gutsy move Steve. I've been reading your regular blog for a long time and I think to completely change tactics and start from scratch was a bold move, I'll be following your stream here and I wish you the best of luck with it!

@Wayan, the feed should be working. It is here. In terms of the comment box. It expands as you type. Posterous is rolling out templating in the next few weeks. I will see what I can do then.

The time to mix it up is when you're successful. That's how one grows.

Yep, feed is working, my ability to use Google Gears was the issue. Fixed.

But the comment box does not expand as you type, nor can I reply directly to someone else's comment, a pretty common and useful comments functionality.

Steve, see Hal Varian's article http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Hal_Varian_on_how_the_Web_challenges_managers_2286 ....read the paragraph on "flexible innovation" and the point about the bits of information.

I study Google Trends like you (you posted about the trends & MJ) and have a draft paper in progress.

Im not a blogger but an avid Twitterer who supports your idea of live streaming and plan on joining this journey with Posterous.

Another thing, I have something in common with DaVinci: Im Italian and balding.

Great stuff!

Oh and on the bigger issue of you leaving your blog:

So far I don't see the big hubbub. This post/comments action feels like a blog to me, and I can see the Twitter login, so I could make this a Tweet also. Nice. Not game-changing as a reader, but you seem to be smitten with posterous as a publisher.

Steve you just keep doing what you're doing. I admire and respect your vision. I like your decision to make this change. You have me inspired to do something similar.

I look forward to seeing what you do with this thing, Steve. I gave Tumblr a brief go, but came away feeling unsatisfied. Maybe I didn't give it enough of a chance.

Hi Steve. I am enjoying your move from blogging to lifestreaming. I ran across posterous recently but punted on it in light of my use of friendfeed and other sites but am going to give it a go.

It seems as though you are still posting traditional blog post type entries here instead of what you are up to around the web which is what I've come to understand how lifestreaming is being defined.

In any case, I dig it, and see this type of lifestream-type publishing as the way things are going online and will continue to evolve.

I see your move from blogging to lifestreaming like allowing us to visit your R & D labs. I can see your ideas earlier

Steve, clearly you are well-intentioned on this, and your desire for growth is commendable. From my perspective, though, I don't want to know everything you think. Nothing against you ... I don't want to know everything Anybody thinks. There is already too much data. I want distilled information, and I want to be told why it matters. It seems to me that "lifestreams" just contribute more to a polluted web, one that already has too much stuff that just doesn't matter.

I wish you luck with this, in terms of you finding what You are looking for, but I don't see it helping me find what I am looking for. I'll stick with your blog, unless it dries up and dies, but I doubt that I'll follow this more than a couple of days. Already have too much noise.

Steve, thanks for providing a model for those of us who have been feeling that blogs can be too confining.

I've been blogging for ten years but lately my writing has been spilling out all over the net. The Posterous/FriendFeed combination is a great workaround.

People who want nothing more than the well-reasoned essay will be satisfied with the blog channel; folks who are more in tune with the rapid-fire, piecemeal approach of Tweets can grab the fire-hose feed.

Steve, I have read your articles on how Gmail has become " the nerve center" for everything you do just about. Was the fact that you use Gmail for everything also an overriding factor in your switch to using posterous. By using posterous you were able to extend the reach of Gmail and your nerve center?

@Russ, my use of Gmail was a bonus. It was more the email format - the fact that I could email in multi media too. However, I am thinking about how to combine the email feature in Friendfeed with Posterous (and also Zemanta).

@Steve I can't wait to hear how you combine the 2.

this is the future of blogging. near future. Steve, you are bringing it too close! in my real estate blogging it would be more smooth because of the topic and scope for group interaction. actually an extension of our GTalk going on at this point of time..

Here's why blogging is important. With blogging you are telling an overall coherent story. With lifestreaming you are sharing bits and pieces of your life but without a narrator. We'll still be following you, but we won't necessarily understand the plot or direction. I also see your personal insight being lost amongst a series of pictures, thoughts and links.

Today no one completely understands Da Vinci because he didn't write an autobiography. We are simply observers of his work and are left to guess what his true intentions or life philosophy entailed. Were he a blogger, we'd better understand and learn from him.

interesting post, thanks !

Steve, nice article. I like your approach and have been trying out different ways to present and publish the content that matters to me. I have found that a combination of Wordpress and Tumblr works well but now I need to check out Posterous to see if that is a better fit (to replace the Tumblr side of my publishing). The other piece I wrestle with is whether to use Twitter or FriendFeed in combination. It seems there are too many good tools right now to do the same things and I keep bouncing back and forth. Would love to see a future post on how you integrate tools like FriendFeed into your publishing. -Chris

I've been enthuzin' on Posterous for some time now.
http://gregsantos.posterous.com/
This is one tight platform, a mobile blogging one stop shop.
One simple email allows me to share most media from anywhere,
automatically syndicating my content to the social profiles I designate including my personal hub at http://GregSantos.net
Best of all Posterous makes it dead simple for readers to interact with and share my posts.
I think Steve's choice attests to his insight into emerging media.

Great perspective on Social media.

The difference is that Leonardo da Vinci didn't publish his notebooks, much less "streamed" them in any way. I'm not too familiar with his work methods, but I guess he thought things through and only went public when he came to some sort of conclusion, breakthrough, discovery. Those don't happen every day. Or week.

Sorry but you're missing half of the Leonardo equation. Following on @Julia, Leonardo's notebooks were not published because they were not end-results, they were simple tools that allowed him to create the real results, i.e. his masterpieces...Where is the result side of your lifetream? or Is it only a McLuhan world and as long as we have twitter we will have a message?

da vincis notebooks were about INTRASPECTIVE examination
Blogs are primarily - EXTROVERTIVE dribble.

same , not really.

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So with all this talk of blogs V notebooks what does that make my blog which is about my notebooks?

thanks todd
i did overlook consuming activities, as well as activity streams in general. i will be inserting information about activity streams and the semantic web around the kurzweil part.
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