Lifestreaming

Definition

Lifestreaming is a term used to describe the act of streaming one's actions and life to others in a consistently updating manner. Whether streaming one's heartbeat data, visor video or GPS data, lifestreaming is part of the process of the Quantified Self, or a process used by those who log data about themselves and format it into a visual or graphed format over time.

For Rob Wilcox the idea of Lifestreaming is that "every (connected) experience - txt, email, voice call, scrible, in person meetup, personal visual and sound experience, commercial media experience is indexed, searchable and recoverable on a timeline (and geoline)".

History

Steve Mann was one of the first lifestreamers. At MIT in 1985 he began streaming his every waking moment to the Athena web server, allowing his life to be accessed and commented on by others (fold in excerpts from Steve Mann's book Cyborg.

Related Reading

• Lifecasting
• The Final Cut (film)
• Lifestreaming Blog