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LifeloggingI am Apollo Lemmon and this is my lifestream. I invite you to join me in my exploration of an integral life. I am focused on discovering what it means to live a life rooted in integral consciousness and I explore spirituality, art, community, technology, fitness and other aspects of a fully engaged life. I am now living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
I can always be reached at apollo@apollolemmon.com
For the past few weeks my friends Kelly and Jessica have been holding lifestreamer meetups in Second Life every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The meetings have been a great way to interact with other lifestreamers, share ideas about the lifestreaming process and explore how lifestreaming can improve our lives.
Kelly and Jessica are two of only a handful of people I’ve gotten to know who are as enthusiastic about lifestreaming as I am and it has been a joy to learn their thoughts about technical aspects of ‘streaming and lifestreaming as a lifestyle. There’s no one I know who has done more experimenting with the lifestreaming lifestyle than those two.
2. We chose SL because logistically, it seemed less complicated than a multi-person video chat. I would prefer video but using SL actually lowers the barrier to entry–you don’t have to put your makeup on to meet, just roll out of bed and log on. That’s all most of us need–just a tiny push, a small group of people who will care if we don’t show up.
3. We are all working on various technical aspects of our lifestreams, and it is very helpful to talk to each other about CMSs, workflows, etc.
4. We are scattered around the globe and having SL for a meeting place means no travel or expensive phone bills of course :]
5. Keeping meeting minutes is easy with local chat.
6. Lastly, I really want to build a community of lifestreamers who feel like they know each other. SL is a great place to do that because of the embodied communication. You really feel like you’re in a space with other people, instead of looking at each other on a screen. Having avatars present together creates a feeling of spatial connectedness.
~Jessica Mullen, “Why hold lifestreamers’ meetings in Second Life?“
The lifestreaming meetings have gained attention from New World Notes, which published the article “Lifestreamers Forming Community in Second Life” about the group.
If you’re a lifestreamer and want to join in, why not meet us at Educators Coop 2 (109, 216, 24) at 9 am EST. In Second Life I can be found as Apollo Glass.
My love for podcasts is undiminished.
When I listen to great new ‘casts I share them here, filtering out the boring bits of the podosphere and leaving you with gems. You can find my previous recommendations all collected at Frozen Truth.
I recently discovered The Moth and was gripped by many of the podcasts I listened to. It features short storytelling sessions from fascinating speakers. Some of the notable guests of the larger project, of which the podcast is as aspect, have been Margaret Cho, Neil Gaiman, Ethan Hawke, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, Moby, and Suzanne Vega. The series is a showcase of real life stories from people of all walks of life and succedes in bringing many perspecitves under the umbrella of intimate storytelling.
The stories range in length from approximately 5 to 17 minutes. Sometimes funny, occasionally sad, often poignant, we hope you will find the stories memorable and representative of many aspects of human experience. Because the stories are culled from many years worth of archives, the sound quality varies.
Tank Riot is a feast of a podcast. Each episode features a historic figure, pop culture landmark or topic that is explored with great enthusiasm and insight. A quick glace through the archives shows off just how varied the subjects can be; robber barons, Gilligan’s Island, Mother Teresa, Hanna-Barbera, Joe McCarthy, Post-Apocalypse Cinema, Walt Disney, Ayn Rand, Jim Henson, Mister Rogers, Tron, Devo, Henry Ford, Nikola Tesla, Douglas Adams, Philip K. Dick and Hugo Chávez were all fodder for this ‘cast. Some of the takes on important figures are surprising and shed light on overlooked histories; revealing Mother Teresa’s ugly side was especially audacious. Every episode is a thill, so be sure to subscribe.
I mentioned Kelly and Jessica’s The Popular Podcast in a previous post, but since then they have both created personal podcasts as part of their lifestreaming activities. Kelly and Jessica share their lives with great honesty and a clear desire to have their experiments bear fruit in their lives and the lives of those who look in through their lifestreams and podcasts. Recently Jessica has been focusing on lifestreaming for learning and design while Kelly has been exploring relationships and experiences.
I’m a lifestream designer, podcaster, & MFA candidate at UT Austin. This site is about using lifestreaming to learn about yourself and the world, so you can design the life you want. Follow my daily activities here.
A lot of the hype this week has been about Google Buzz, and for good reason: Google tends to do internet projects very, very well. But the project that has me most excited is the much more ambitious One Social Web.
One Social Web aims to decentralize the social internet by allowing all social networks to interact. Buzz, Facebook, Twitter and all the other social sites we use really should be able to talk to each other and we should be able to keep in touch with friends no matter where they decide to share their lives. What OSW does is create the framework to allow this, which is a wonderful development.
Podcasts present some of the best media in the world; the very brightest of our futures, the strangest notions and the most startling warnings make their way into podcasts. In my first two Podcast Selections posts I focused on fiction, personal development and spirituality; now I will showcase an assortment of the best podcasts that cover pop culture, geek culture, counter culture and other strangeness.
The Hour has become Canada’s best interview show due the superb interviews conducted by its host, George Stroumboulopoulos. The show covers a wide range of topics that include —but are not limited to— science, politics, arts and ethics. The Hour offers both video and audio podcasts, as well as full episodes, marking it as one of the most web-savvy major television shows.
Past guests of the show have included Eckhart Tolle, David Suzuki, Jimmy Carter, Larry King, Henry Rollins, Alanis Morissette, The Smashing Pumpkins, Richard Dawkins, Al Gore, Tony Robbins, Margaret Atwood, Levar Burton, Cory Doctorow, Naomi Klein, Blue Rodeo, Stephen King, Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Morgan Freeman, Moby, Spike Lee, and Margaret Cho.
George Stroumboulopoulos is the host of The Hour, Canada’s late night talk show. Now in its sixth season, the program has won seven Gemini Awards (Canada’s equivalent to an Emmy Award), three for best talk series in Canada; three for best host in a talk program or series; and a Gemini for the production design of The Hour’s set. The Hour has also won a 2009 Gracie Award – the first international award presented to The Hour for Outstanding TV Show – Public Division, by the American Women of Radio and Television.
The Hour is unlike any program on television. It is a hybrid of news and celebrity, reflected through in-depth conversations and dynamic production. It covers politics, the arts, entertainment, the environment, human rights, sports and more. George is one of the most respected journalists in Canada, equally comfortable speaking with a world leader as he is a rock star. He has interviewed many of the most influential and recognized people in the world.
The blogosphere is undergoing a shift toward lifestreaming. The efficiency and clarity of lifestreaming offers an alternative and a complement to blogging that enables time-strapped internet content creators and enthusiasts a better way to display, distribute and champion the content that matters to them. It’s a game-changer that also hints at the increasingly seamless way the internet is part of every aspect of our lives.
2008 has been a year of transitioning to lifestreaming for me. An increasingly time-strapped life has left me less time to devote to blogging, but my drive to share content with friends and strangers hasn’t relented. Lifestreaming has allowed me to point out more content and share more pieces of my life than I could have if I focused on longer pieces. I still love and appreciate blogging —I read dozens of blogs each day—, but lifestreaming is the future of how we share on the internet.
One of the clearest signs that ‘streaming is becoming a mainstream force on the internet is the inclusion of rudimentary lifestreaming on Facebook and other social networking sites. We are coming to value quick shots from the attention of the people we care about and respect; a photo of a great meal, pieces of political discourse and a fascinating news article do provide real benefits in how we connect with others and how we experience the world. Even with the inevitable filler that comes from the speed of ‘streaming, the data we create is going to reshape our interaction with the internet.
Lifestreaming heralds the next leap for the internet, the semantic web, by associating our important data with our online identities. This association enables data to be used to understand our lives, our interests and our social world. Marry this with emergent trends of location-aware software, cloud computing, and the still-rising tide of social networking, and you have a perfect storm of practical, sophisticated and exciting internet tools that will make our experience of the internet seamless within our lives.
As we create content across the internet, whether it’s twittering and tumbling, uploading photos, recording bookmarks, or blogging, it becomes increasingly valuable to have a way to aggregate all our content in one place. Lifestreaming is an answer to this need for a coherent and unified presentation of our online lives. A Lifestream grabs the RSS feeds we create at most sites we participate at and collects them on one page in chronological order, allowing a quick look at everything we are doing online.
I’ve created a lifestream for myself at the website that serves as my main identity online, Apollo Lemmon . com. There I am currently sharing blog entries from Frozen Truth and Zaadz, twits and tumbles from Tumblr, photos from Picasa, links through del.icio.us, interesting fashion and gadgets through Stylefeeder, and music I listen to at Last.fm. I used wp_simplelife, a superb plugin for WordPress, to create the stream and now just dive in and do my normal internet activity and it collects it all for me.
Lifestreaming is a public manifestation of the more inclusive and private LifeLogging, which I’ve written about before, and is an advancement I have a lot of hope for.
The value of including lifelogging in our lives has potential to be immense. Medical use alone could improve our lives greatly, allowing doctors greater access to various symptoms of pathologies. Having an aid to our natural memory would be welcome, especially to those suffering memory loss. Parsing the data could even provide us with recommendations for where to eat, reminders of friends we have been neglecting and a host of other life-enhancing features. It’s a transhumanist dream becoming a reality.
via “LifeLogging“
If you are interested in creating your own stream, I do recommend wp_simplelife, but there are a lot of options out there, and many are collected at Lifestream Blog.