Micro-blogging, nano-blogging, or pico-blogging whatever, changed the way we express and interact online. We don't need any more in-depth stories, err well we do sometimes. We have no more time for long story, most of the time yap. We want things simple and simplified. Yay!

Twitter comes with its pros and cons, facebook status, yonkly, sweetter, kronologger follows. Spoink goes a bit further with its multimedia micro-blogging service that enables you to podcast on any phone from anywhere as well as post audio, video, pictures and text via short message service (SMS), instant messaging (IM), email or via a web browser.

We are prompted with bits of urgent, expressive, immediate, time-sensitive posts. With the very limited characters (140 characters with Twitter), some are well-crafted like poetry or good jokes. Most are just tweets or bits of experience to let others/friends/followers track your online or offline activities, others with business in mind are simply copywriting. So what's so bad about that save for something like spammings? Nothing really. It's just a trend on sharing things in micro format. Being a mobile social being in the rush time, we sometimes love wasting our time browsing friends' activities, publish immediate public thoughts:) or even eat gossips. It's not very bad because we simply love it. Love is never bad, right? Well, at least real world useful example: knowing what your friend's doing somewhere is sometimes precious information when you have an urgent need to keep in touch with them. In the hand of good marketer, this can even be made as an awesome business tool. That's the good point of all this micro-sharing, tweeting, or updating status in facebook.

The trend goes on. Now another trend comes, not a one-year-old widely implemented trend yet I guess, unless you consider this or this very early concept as a trend start:)

You are active in some social networks, and you are a prolific blogger, too. How do you manage yourself so that your friends, even very busy friends, can keep track on your social activities and read your own long, short or micro writings at the same time? Lifestream takes place. What the heck is that? It's certainly not this. It is this what I am talking about. Another way to aggregate all your online and offline social activities, including your traditional blog posts, across multiple sources online on to one central space, your own web site or a service like FriendFeed, so that your friends and yourself can easily keep them tracked.

To understand better, you can try and have your lifestream with several choices:
1. Find the right plugin or module for your blogging software. Wordpress here. Drupal here.
2. Grab the built-in lifestream theme if using wordpress
3. Simply join one of the services like FriendFeed, 30 Boxes, Jaiku , Socialthing! , Tumblr , Mugshot , Iminta
4. Or host your own lifestream data with Sweetcron
5. Go to your facebook's LiveFeed, or import your blog for more exposure
6. Bridge them all with YouChoose, as they claimed so.
7. Check out here or there for other options that may suit your need.

And now all these trends seem to underline the so-called vanishing personal site. Well, I am not seeing that blog is dead. At least now I can see that we are in the process of transforming into a multiplatform blogging world (Hope I just coined it the right way, if blogging is still relevant here:)). Ndorokakung might be sad once, Andrew Parker was just happy about tweetering, but our YongFook never wants to say blog is dead, well kinda. We are always seeing the future of blogging here, right?

You don't have to get on every new wagon that comes by, of course. It's just a trend. You can always go traditional as long as you find your love and passion with it.

If we have to keep an eye on this lifestream, we have lots of things to discuss and follow.

Here is to begin with:

Or here for a comparison on lifestream services: