Lifestream

A while back, Yongfook changed his old blog to a new Lifestream.  The concept is simple and elegant–the internet is full of free services for publishing different media (video, pictures) and types of text (blog posts, links, twitter-style what-I’m-doing-now posts) that are free and well designed.  The blog itself is nice but really only seems worth posting when you’re writing a significant portion of text.  When the post is smaller, or just about a single picture it seems a bit overkill.  Jay Parkinson, M.D. seemed to think similarly and switched to a tumblelog from a blog to simplify his publishing.  I tried Tumblr and liked it well enough, but it still wasn’t as crystal as Yongfook.com.  Then I found a Tumblr theme by Heather Rivers that was similar to YF and set up my feeds in the Tumblr settings to import my Flickr, WordPress, Del.icio.us (which hasn’t worked yet), Youtube and whatever else I may want later.  I’m quite happy with the results and it has refreshed my interest in blogging.