My move from a blog to a lifestream format has elicited two kinds of responses so far: approvers and doubters. I don't think this has anything to do with me, but rather it's  reflection of how we're adjusting to the broader shift in media.

The web is slowly moving from an architecture of pages, to one that looks like a stream. Such models favor immediacy over reflection.

This was something John Borthwick from betaworks and I discussed this morning over breakfast. It's definitely front and center in his mind. Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook, Tumblr and Posterous are all platforms that embrace the stream metaphor. Blogs, RSS, static news stories are remnants from the era of pages.

The stream is where the web is going. Does this mean thoughtful analysis is dead? No. However, the ubiquity of the stream and the tools to filter it, the increasing consumption of content on mobile devices and finite attention spans means there's a greater focus today on immediacy than reflection. This was a major factor in why I shifted how I publish and embraced a tool that lets me contribute more in a streamed format, yet still have a home base on the web.

Perhaps I am wrong, but it feels like those who are most critical of the transition from blogging to lifestreaming perhaps are not ready to embrace such a format. Maybe there's room for everything. What's your view?

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