Facebook have now made it possible to load all these other websites directly into your Facebook profiles. Now users can display their blog posts from their blog, they can display the drunken pics that they uploaded to Flickr, show the embarassing videos they have from their YouTube profile and so much more. In the world where people never pledge full allegiance to one site, it made sense to drag display them all in a single scrapbook. This is the idea behind '
lifestreaming' and is a dream come true for those that gloriously show off every facet of their life and the millions of lurkers who are willing to tune into such dross.
Lifestreaming, like the movie Being John Malkovich, will allow you to climb inside the head of someone and experience their day via a digital smorgasboard of public text messages, blog posts, GPS-tagged photos and (thanks to mobile broadband and tiny videocameras) a live video stream of them as they move around their world.
—Damien Mulley, "Being Damien Mulleyvitch," Sunday Tribune, July 22, 2007
They are
lifestreamers, who have been simulcasting their lives 24 hours a day. Why? Because it's there. They'd already been blogging, Twittering, Facebooking, Flickring, podcasting and YouTubing their lives. Live video was merely their next frontier. ...
This means that we in the audience may not see the news on the BBC's or CNN's sites or shows; we may see it on the witnesses' blogs via embeddable players from services such as uStream.tv and Justin.tv, which enable lifestreaming.
—Jeff Jarvis, "Yes, news-gathering is now purse-sized," The Guardian, July 16, 2007
I've mocked up my own little
life stream, tracking my Twitter, Flickr, Del.icio.us, Last.fm, and blog posts. It's a quick'n'dirty script that isn't doing any caching. The important thing is that it's keeping the context of the permalinks (song, link, photo, or blog post) and displaying them ordered by date and time. ...
You can also find me scattered across these sites: ...
Lifestreaming via Jaiku
—Jeremy Keith, "Streaming my life away," Adactio, November 7, 2006
Here's an even earlier citation that uses a similar (but not quite the same) sense:
Much about parenting can be dispiriting. One is when your kids grow up and the fruit of all your stress and toil, all the theme-party torture you endured, is nary a raisin in the sun.
That, my child, is why we take pictures. Incessant pictures. And video. Mind-numbing, life-streaming video. We want you to have hard evidence, suitable for a grand jury, that we cared.
—John Young, "Mom, Dad: take pictures," Cox News Service, July 22, 2003
