Archiving the Lifestream

by Richard Reeve on September 2, 2009

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I’m putting my words regarding to importance of archiving into action. I’ve installed a life streaming plugin that will begin archiving my lifestreaming activities and provide daily digests in this category.

It’s interesting. I’ve read the thought leaders in the field talk about getting to a place where all the features available in a platform like friendfeed would become resident on a blog. Putting my lifestream up here makes that vision seem oh so close but oh so far. While this tool brings the content together, it remains static. Wouldn’t it be great if the tremendous reservoir of talent and interest that centers around friendfeed worked to make the vision of portable interactive aggregation happen?

matt Searles

I love this idea, how hard could it be?

I've been thinking about building such a thing for my sites.. It's perhaps a reasonably steep learning curve to work out how to do such a thing the right way but.. well what would you want in such a program?

It looks like you can build stuff on top of that life stream plug in?

I was thinking some kind of combination interactive data visualization of the stream form of navigation.. could it be that that we could discover new patterns in streams?

And then facilitating some kind of social interaction with the stream?

But then you probably don't really want your stream silod off on you site? Have it more like some notion of a distributed twitter architecture, or something like google wave?

But then I wonder if what we really need is like a multi layers / modular system.. As if to say different applications essentially remixed what other applications did.. something that could really only happen if sites were less walled gardens... but that you could chain these applications together in different ways to get different results.

What if we just radically rethought what a blog was?

I wish I was bumping into more conversations about this kinda thing...

ccseed

It's clear to me that this is what needs to happen Matt. I watched a
video where Matt Mullenweg of WP shared that he envisions having life
streaming capabilities in future releases. And I think you might be
right that Wave will change the game as to how this unfolds. What's
clear is that so far, the functionality is locked up on platforms that
are only interested in seizing the space.