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The Flip Side of Lifestreaming

April 29, 2008 by ideambulate

For those outside the know, lifestreaming is the phenomenon of more or less continuous recording and transmission of observations about one’s life.  It’s the log of a perpetual twitterer, the live webcam someone wears on their hat, the flickr account of a geotagged-mobile-phone-camera-addict.

The side of lifestreaming everyone talks about is the fact that you get an incredible amount of options for broadcasting details of your life.  The other side of the equation is, naturally, all those other people that fall into the scope of “your life.”  From their perspective, your lifecast is going to have an impact on the set of information out there about them.  In other words, lifestreaming affects the digital identity representations of the entire population of the dynamic social sphere.

So, what happens when everyone starts lifestreamiing?

My guess is that you’ll lose control over a hearty segment of your public identity.

Nowadays you generally have to make an effort to broadcast your thoughts, works, and life details to develop an online public identity.  This means that you get the chance to be the primary author and manager of this online identity — you’re the one generating all the content.

Once other people around you start lifestreaming, this editorial control will slip away, since the lifestreamers you interact with will produce alternate, semi-independent accounts of your life.  Celebrities won’t be the only people with widely accessible outside speculation and documentation about their lives any more.

Where does this all lead?  Maybe towards a more cautious society, where people have to wisely consider their actions in front of others.  Think lots of Little Sisters who might gossip or tattle rather than one Big Brother.

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Charismatic authority is 'power legitimized on the basis of a leader's exceptional personal qualities or the demonstration of extraordinary insight and accomplishment, which inspire loyalty and obedience from followers'. [2] As such, it rests almost entirely on the leader; the absence of that leader for any reason can lead to the authority's power dissolving. However, due to its idiosyncratic nature and lack of formal organization, charismatic authority depends much more strongly on the perceived legitimacy of the authority than Weber’s other forms of authority. For instance, a charismatic leader in a religious context might require an unchallenged belief that the leader has been touched by God, in the sense of a guru or prophet. [3] Should the strength of this belief fade, the power of the charismatic leader can fade quickly, which is one of the ways in which this form of authority shows itself to be unstable. In contrast to the current popular use of the term charismatic leader, Weber saw charismatic authority not so much as character traits of the charismatic leader but as a relationship between the leader and his followers — much in the same way that Freud would transform Gustave Le Bon's crowd psychology through the notion of identification and of an Ideal of the Ego. The validity of charism is founded on its "recognition" by the leader's followers (or "adepts" - Anhänger). This recognition "is not (in authentic charism) the grounds of legitimity, but a duty, for those who are chosen, in virtue of this call and of its confirmation, to recognize this quality. "Recognition" which is, psychologically, a completely personal abandon, full of faith, born either from enthusiasm or from necessity and hope. No prophet has seen his quality as depending from the crowd's opinion towards himself", although his charisma risks disappearing if he is "abandoned by God" or if "his government doesn't provide any prosperity to those whom he dominates".

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“ I will author a life that causes as little harm as possible, and provides as much usefulness to humanity as I can. This involves using my skills (as a filmmaker), but it also involves using my unskilled self: I must be willing to learn how to implement many practices from different sources, and be willing to take risks with my body and emotions. I am a 21-year old white female film student who just graduated from college in Pittsburgh, PA. This is my sustainability. ”

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Nano Blogging

Small and simple is taking its way into our digital lives that are cluttered. First we've got Twitter, so called micro-blogging. We could build network, share with others and tell the world what we were doing - the only limitation was to use 140 characters. Cut the crap is the driver behind micro-blogging. Twitter size, snacking format fits perfectly in our busy and over-connected, overcomplicated digital universe. Nutritious information. Not too many calories but still fulfilling our hunger for being part of human network. Now it's taken a step further by introducing nano blogging. Adocu. Tell the world what you are doing using just one word. It demands cutting the crap even further. No air, no unnecessary words. One word that is defined as streamline of letters, no spaces...

One word concept is pretty good idea if we want to reduce number of incoming information, make them more compact and easy to consume. Neat. But with adocu you can accidentaly choke. There is no limits on the numbers of letters, you can put all sentence, you just avoid spaces. Can adocu cut the crap? Yes and no. It is all in hands of people who use it and the meaning they convey through it. I'll defintely keep an eye on it.

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