Trying to figure this out a and I signed up for Posterous, as I posted about at Webmetricsguru.com just now – but ….. I’m not sure this method of Lifestreaming will work for me unless I find more control on what content I can post to, and where.

See Thoughts about – Is Blogging Evolving Into Life Streams? Steve Rubel and Posterous for more details about Lifestreaming as an effective way to update my blogs and micromedia.

If Steve Rubel is doing it, it’s worth looking at Posterous.

Is Blogging Evolving Into Life Streams?

via Web Strategy by Jeremiah by jeremiah_owyang on 6/26/09

Top Bloggers Spend Less Time Blogging
I’ve noticed a gradual change in what we know as blogs when Scoble and Shel wrote the book on Naked Conversations. Both of them are now focused on micromedia: Shel has an upcoming book on Twitterville, and Scoble spends more time promoting Friendfeed than his own blog. Secondly, I just learned that Edelman’s top blogger Steve Rubel has retired his traditional blog, and it’s now a life stream, which aggregates content from any source. Of course, I don’t need to mention that many of the top 100 blogs all look like mainstream media, with a team of writers, photographers, and editors.

It seems as if blogging is becoming old hat, or at least evolving into something smaller, faster, and more portable. I’m with Louis Gray, I’m not going to give up my blog, instead, I think of it as the hub of content, and the rest of the information I aggregate (notice the Twitter bar up top and the Friendfeed integration below). To me, joining the conversation is certainly important, but it doesn’t mean the hub (or corporate website) goes away.

More Lifestreams Mean More Noise
As more and more people create content on microchannels, we experience more ambient intimacy, but also a lot more data. For example, Scoble pointed out on our panel last night with Mark Silva and Kevin Marks that the iPhone has resulted in 400% increase in uploads to YouTube. I assure you, we have no time to consume all the content created just from our immediate friends and family –the hours in the day stay fixed.

Steve Rubel’s switch to using Posterous (the tool that fuels his lifestreaming) makes sense for him. Why? he’s slowed down on blogging and increased his activity in Twitter and Friendfeed. But what’s going to work for him may be a detriment for others, this  increased volume of smaller content the need for analysis and journalism matters even more. When you look at Steve’s new stream, it’s actually heavily on target with the same content as he’s had on his blog, it’s just published faster and quicker.

Opportunity For Those That Can Distill Noise to Signal
Yes, you should certainly socially pollinate your corporate or blog content to other communities, using tools like sharethis, however these should also be hooks for people to find your content.  For me, I’m going to respect the needs of my community, and keep on blogging to distill what I think is important.

Key Takeaways

• The trend for people to create more content is afoot, as a result aggregation tools like lifestreams, activity streams, and newsfeeds (and a new form of a social/email inbox) will take center stage.
• You should certainly join the conversations where they exist, but this doesn’t mean your base of quality content should erode, there are long term branding and search benefits.
• As a result, we’ll start to see new tools emerge that help to find the signal –not noise. Those who can filter out what’s important will matter more:, by using a: blog, delicious, or tweets to let your community  know what’s important.
• Expect the same heavy pieces on this blog, but feel free to spiral with me on Twitter and Friendfeed and whatever tool comes next.  I’m going to leave the choice to you.  I want to keep the signal high for my business minded community. Needles –not hay.

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There’s so much going on in New York City it’s hard to keep up – Pretty tired of Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective show at the Met, seen enough Bacon for a while.  The Napoleon III and Paris show was a dissipointment, it was little more than two rooms of old photos, most which only had historcial signicance.

On the other hand, The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion was a real surprise and was one of the best “shows” (if that is a good description of what I saw) I’ve seen at the Met, just for the sheer amount of optical effects and the work that went into arranging the photos and manaquins.

There’s also a few shows I’m looking forward to upcoming – including Vermeer’s Masterpiece The Milkmaid and Watteau, Music, and Theater both coming in September 2009.

Haven’t been painting much, a few sketches here and there, a few iPhone paintings, but one thing I noticed, and observation I’ve made about myself.    Here it is.

When I’m fully invested in painting – there’s a lot to say and I’m more passionate about what’s going on around me  in the Arts, in general.    When I’m involved in another part of me, in this case, the Analytics world, Social Media, Conferences, speaking at them or attending as press, I find it’s much harder for me to be invested in this work in the same intensity.

So, I guess what I’m saying is the ability to stay focused, stay with it – has more to do with intensity then technical ability.   Here’s what I mean.

When Van Gogh decided he wanted to paint – he felt he had work on it every day – and if he missed more than a few – he felt he was losing his connection – yet it wasn’t his painting that got worse because much of his life, and in sleep, one is not painting – not doing Art.

If doing Art is necessary every day, it’s not for technical refinement as much as it’s for focus, intensity, engagement – it’s hard to be “engaged” with a process that’s intermittant – but that’s exactly what our lives are, more and more.

So, I decided to give in to it – the point isn’t to paint as a way to identity, but to live a life worth living in order to have something to paint about, when I can paint (and that’s not all the time – at least, not at this time).

I hope to have some new work up here, soon, but I’ll close out this post with a link to another show in Venice right now focusing on “The Wedding at Cana,” by the British filmmaker Peter Greenaway based on a Paul Veronese painting that is in the Louvre.  I’d like to see that show – probably get a closer look at the painting than when I was in Paris, at the Louvre.

I was at The Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra performance of Das Lied von der Erde today (May 31st, 2009) at The Church of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn and caught the entire performance of Gustav Mahler’s masterpiece.   A friend was also playing in the orchestra today and that’s how I came to know of the performance.

In fact, I was very fortunate today as I was sitting in the front row and could get a very good seat and great sound, even my Flip Camera had the sound ….sounding good, and the Brooklyn Orchestra was great.

Here’s song 4 of the Song of the Earth cycle

And here’s the rest of the videos I made today

Song 1 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esddjnp-PmA

Song 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74-CEoJtmO8

Song 3 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsgH2vB4uZg

Song 4 – embedded above

Song 5 -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALYbTmlkDDc

Song 6 -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyAiKnW33Xk  Part 1

Song 6 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3vZQIOjMp8  Part 2

Song 6 – Part 3 is being uploaded now

I wanted to write a little more about the piece but decided to place my video recollections, as I left the Church of St. Ann, as my commentary.