Lifestreaming reveals the invisible Jessica Mullen, University of Texas at Austin Introduction A lifestream is a shared archive of your life, online. Your lifestream can be made up of many sources, like your Twitter updates, Flickr photos, blog posts, or location updates. Lifestreaming begins when these sources are treated as a single information feed documenting your life. As your aggregated data reveals unexpected connections and previously hidden patterns, you will gain understanding and context about the world you live in. ©8000 Materials To start your lifestream, you need to choose a few places to share information. Try Twitter, Flickr, or Wordpress. Next, you can take the RSS feeds of your updates and put them into one place, like Friendfeed, Google Reader, or a self-hosted platform like Sweetcron. Google Reader ‘Sweetcron Sec Sans oo Funk mts Chngecaig. > Deiat) wise cna ait Yoorenared nt ENS ga ema Methods Now that you have a basic online presence collected into one place, we can explore different services to reveal unseen connections and patterns about your life and how it relates to others. ‘Steps to gathering the following results: 1. Created a self-hosted lifestream with Sweetcron 2. Shared information across many social services across the web 3. Enacted behavioral changes based on observations of data collected 4. Requested copious input from the lifestreaming community 5. Synthesized observations, community feedback, and site data into categories of information revealed through lifestreaming.