Lifestreaming
Globally known public figures like Leonardo da Vinci and Albert Einstein were collecting their stream of personal and professional data, an act that could be considered lifestreaming.
This particular facet of lifestreaming serves as a valuable tool for constructing and nurturing online communities where individuals with shared interests can converge.
[14][15][16] Lifecasting reverses the concept of surveillance, giving rise to sousveillance through portability, personal experience capture, daily routines and interactive communication with viewers.
[17] Originally being called "lifelogging" or "lifestreaming," during the summer of 2007, Justin Kan's term lifecasting escalated into general usage and became the accepted label of the movement.
[citation needed] Technological improvements in audio and the invention of smaller, less intrusive cameras brought about more naturalistic situations in documentary films by Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, the Maysles Brothers and others.
While filmmakers such as Michel Auder, Jonas Mekas and Ed Pincus created cinematic diaries,[19] the sculptor Claes Oldenburg, in the early 1960s, had theatrical showings of his home movies.
With a format similar to TV's Big Brother, Harris placed tapped telephones, microphones and 32 robotic cameras in the home he shared with his girlfriend, Tanya Corrin.
[30] DotComGuy arrived in 2000, and the following year, the Seeing-Eye-People Project[31] combined live streaming with social networking to assist the visually challenged.
After Joi Ito's Moblog (2002), web publishing from a mobile device,[32] came Gordon Bell's MyLifeBits (2004), an experiment in digital storage of a person's lifetime, including full-text search, text/audio annotations and hyperlinks.
Over decades, Rick Kirkham shot more than 3000 hours of his video diaries, documenting his own descent from nationally syndicated broadcast journalist (Inside Edition) to the drug and alcohol abuse that destroyed his career and family life.
OurPrisoner was a 2006 internet "reality show" which featured a man living on camera for 6 months who had to follow viewer directions to win prizes.
They decided to forgo verbal communication during the initial courtship and instead spoke to each other via written notes, sketches, video clips and MySpace.
Wearing a webcam attached to a cap, Kan began streaming continuous live video and audio, beginning at midnight March 19, 2007, and he named this procedure "lifecasting,"[35] apparently unaware of the accepted use of that term for a sculpting process.
The novelty of Kan's concept attracted media attention, and resulting interviews with him included one by Ann Curry on the Today Show.
What viewers witnessed was all from Kan's subjective POV as seen from his 24/7 portable live video streaming system developed by Kyle Vogt,[36] one of the four founders of Justin.tv.
The new camera emerged from the pile of Radio Shack parts, computer guts and hacked-up cellphones that had accumulated on my messy desk.
[37]Vogt's mobile broadcasting hardware consisted of a proprietary Linux-based computer in a box, four Evolution-Data Optimized (EVDO) USB networking adapters, a commercially produced analog to MPEG-4 video encoder and a large lithium-ion battery with eight hours of running time.
The setup currently used is one wireless EVDO networking card and a wearable computer (laptop in a backpack)[38] the video is streamed at ten frames per second from Kan's location using a commercial off-the-shelf product from On2.
Attending various tech and media events or working on her design and video projects, she also spent much more time than Kan in communicating directly to her audience.
Kan's cryptic references to "the big rollout" became clear in the summer of 2007 when Justin.tv became a springboard for more than 60 different channels as it made its technology available to a continual flow of applicants.
This included a wide variety of participants, from a Christian family and radio stations to college students, graphic designers and a Subaru repair shop.
[40][41] By the fall of 2007, Justin.tv had expanded to nearly 700 channels, generating 1,650 hours of daily programming,[42] but frequent regulars stay in the forefront because hundreds of other lifecasters are on infrequently or rarely.
[46] Some lifecasters, such as newscaster-vocalist Janelle Stewart,[47] use the technology to stage performances at a regular scheduled time, interview the live audience and plan a US and world tour around justin.tv viewers location.
In August 2007, Batey did extensive technical research so that she could continue to broadcast without interruptions or equipment problems while she vacationed in Tokyo and Kyoto during September 2007.
As a video journalist, she began attending a variety of events, including the Halo 3 launch, the Ground Zero Memorial service, New York Fashion Week and Comic Book Club meetings.
[54] In November 2007 she began tests of her 2008 Pop17 show, an Internet series of tech news, cyber commentary, interviews and unusual video clips.
He picked up real estate entrepreneur, Mark Timms in Charleston, South Carolina and attempted to travel to the 48 continental states in seven days.
Others lifecasters, such as singer-songwriter Jody Marie Gnant, have used the new media for promotional purposes, gaining both viewers and press coverage as she began video streaming her life seven days a week on Ustream.tv.
Her music is also being showcased as part of ScreenVison's pre-show entertainment in 4,000 movie theaters nationwide... "It's an exciting combination of interactive and non-interactive media," says Gnant.
"[9] Kevin Rose the co-founder of Digg, talks at length about lifestreaming and the benefits of it, such as the opportunity to organize bits of information and experience in a detailed digital diary.
