awesome post. Lots to digest here. The flow of information is transformed. - linkman77

Rick is right. The lifestream angle is great if your focus is your life and the chronological order, but thoughts are different -- they're topical and just because they're 'old' don't necessarily make them out of date (although in some cases they do :) The point of the conversations is 'thinking' not 'doing' (which, BTW, is the antithesis of most online design -- hmmm, haven't thought about that before). - Rotkäpchen from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Is it the future or is the future of blogging a return to blogging roots, with noise moving to lifestreams? - Tristan Louis

@Tristan - I get what you mean. Many blogs have become pseudo magazine publishing sites (Engadget, Techcrunch) - the personal, communicative element has been totally eroded there. I think sites like LiveJournal are truer to the roots of blogging. ie blog = weblog = web log - linkman77

It's a good article, but it seems like this is more of a fork in the road of the future, rather than the future of all blogging, an alternative or compliment rather than the next evolution. Thought leaders may still want to blog, or have some kind of interactive platform for their voices. If RWW was a lifestream, what would this post have been like? - Tinu Abayomi-Paul

I like the idea of a blog based round the Friendfeed stream. I could see things heading more in that direction. The blog showcased in the article highlights one of the crippling drawbacks of Friendfeed, though, which is the lack of a "recent conversation" summary. Also: I don't think lifestreaming is necessarily navel-gazing. Most shares on Friendfeed aren't personal streaming, for example, but links to the articles, photos or videos that a user is interested in. - David Young

Would love to stream my Seesmic comments to RWW! I am a Cannibal and my dinner is Virgins and Middle Class! http://seesmic.com/video... - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק from FriendFeed MT Plugin

I have done almost exactly the same thing with my site Svartling Network: http://www.svartling.net/ - Svartling

I don't think this is blogging (as some commented), this is more a form of entertainment. It's like American Idol vs. pro singers - Jorge Escobar

Excellent post Sarah. Ref Christopher's comment, I have been using Soup.io lately to aggregate my 'lifestream' and thoughts re music, books etc. It's nothing special tbh (I don't have any time to devote to it!), but I have thought of it as re-discovering personal blogging. definitely a work in progress and by no means is the content compelling for anyone but me, but to illustrate what I've been doing here it is: http://ricmac.soup.io/ I do love http://cheslow.com/ , that absolutely rocks. It was kind of what I wanted to do, if I had the time and talent to design something like that :-) - Richard from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Check http://chyrp.net its a cool script to made a lifestream with import capacities. - Víctor Hugo Hernández from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Hmmm ... I don't think life streaming will replace blogging. Twitter for example is interesting and almost addictive but it has no depth. For myself one of the great things with twitter is when people I am following point me in the direction of a great blog or post they have found. I do however agree there is a need to bring everything together, my blog for example, and especially my about page is a central hub of my Social Network. It links to most things I do online. http://www.stephenbaugh.com/about - Stephen Baugh from FriendFeed MT Plugin

I try to logon atleast one a day or so. - Aaron Myers

I have found another example that might be of interest in your example of new types of blogs. Martin Stabe writes a traditional blog for UK B2B magazine Press Gazette but his own blog is actually a list of his choices form Delicious - http://www.martinstabe.com/blog... - like Alan Cheslow uses only friendfeed. Of course it remains a blog since what we read is his recommendations or, put another way, his intellectual journey! - John Welsh from FriendFeed MT Plugin