Comments on: Lifestreaming: Why not a storystreaming platform?

By: David

David — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:53:39 +0000

http://www.MediaTuner.com allows you to manually moderate user text and media – or automatically have the media (video, photos, live video, tweets etc.) displayed – in an Embeddable Flash Player. You can create News Streams for news stories, Event Streams for Events (hot day in Austin) LifeStreams for people, or Product Streams for brands and products and Topic Streams for emerging topics.

A great tool for progressive online newspapers.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:10:38 +0000

Mindy – I believe there are different types of lifestreams. Some are more blog-like (e.g. Tumblr, Posterous) and some are more feed-like (e.g. FriendFeed, Facebook). The blog-like lifestreams are viable stand-alone entities, which is not to discount the feed experience, which may be more valuable for interaction.

With lifestreaming, I don't think it's an either/or scenario. Lifestreams and socialstreams fit into each other.

By: Mindy McAdams

Mindy McAdams — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:17:56 +0000

I'm sitting on the sidelines for this one until I see whether it's really just (a) a version of FriendFeed, or (b) a version of Instapundit, or (c) something different. If I'm getting somebody's snippets at a rate of five to seven per day (what Steve Rubel suggests — http://www.steverubel.com/), I think I would rather get them in the 140-character format of Twitter. Maybe I'll stick some of these new lifestreams into my RSS reader, but right now I am not sold.

Your storystreaming idea holds potential for certain kinds of stories, perhaps, but probably not most.

Moreover, it seems too short on data organization. Tagging several items per day is likely to yield just a big old heap of undifferentiated stuff rather than a usable system for further investigation or background. I might be wrong. But I am skeptical about the utility in this.

By: becker

becker — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:17:15 +0000

I think a lot of the story-streaming features could be accomplished with relatively little effort — a sentence-long post here, a photo posted there, a document uploaded later. Most streams could be maintained by one reporter with the stream effects aggregating over time.

Granted, that wouldn't be real-time updating, but most stories aren't going to have enough information to support real-time updating anyhow.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:47:25 +0000

"Any piece of information can become a story."

I agree wholeheartedly.

I think it comes down to two things: storytelling and resources. Is a story or event big enough to warrant multiple reporters? Is there compelling multimedia content?

I wish there were more news organizations and corporations experimenting with lifestreams.