Agreed. Look at my home page. I’m not an active blogger. I blame it on not even being a good writer. I’ve done away with the contemporary blogging homepage. I’ve tried to highlight as much of the good stuff on my site and my life as much as possible.

But blogging still remains a great way of building an audience. I’m looking to do something fresh in the terms of new/weekly content. What that is will remain a mystery. Keep up the good writing. Always love to hear whats cracking on planet rockstar.

I am also rethinking my blog for a redesign. With v2 of akamike I thought I needed to fill out my blog with more pages, such as portfolio and download sections. Of course, I need neither since I have a full-time job and any themes I release will end up on their own separate sub-domain anyway. I’m cutting out all the fluff and incorporating a lifestream on the homepage.

The point being my redesign will be about removing the stuff that isn’t needed. In your case, wouldn’t making this site a CV/portfolio be unnecessary since you have {radiiate}? You can always make a portfolio later, should you be seeking other employment, but until then it’s merely just echoing what someone would see on {radiiate}.

As for the future of blogging being lifestreams, it has some merit: People want more micro-stuff. They want tiny bits of information scattered across multiple services, these services being what suit them best, then aggregated in a way that allows them to have one location to “do it all”. Then they want it mobile, which has a completely different context as to how that data needs to be utilized. However, people will soon find that they aren’t really saying much with all these tiny bits of information. Sure, it’s fun to know that Mr X is going on holiday to Spain (Dopplr), he’s taken lots of photos (Flickr), and is “having a great time” (Twitter), but where are the stories behind all that? People will be frustrated that while they have a nice long page of stuff they did, they are just grouped by categorization and don’t have any concrete relationships.

People will then fall back to blogging but possibly try to integrate their lifestream events into the posts, placing them side-by-side to enhance the readers experience. The phrase “Feel like you were there” springs to mind.

Though, I also notice that this is pushing us to information overload and a sudden shock when we remember things like privacy, but that’s beyond what I’d like to say in this comment! This is definitely an interesting topic though

@Mike - Wow! What a comment! I don’t think it is humanly possible for me to agree any more with you, than I do at this moment hehe. I really like your blog+lifestream side-by-side idea… Maybe that’s something I need to look into…

As for my portfolio & {radiiate}… When I mentioned that I’d like for this blog to become a personal CV / portfolio, I wasn’t referring to work. I’d like to publish the fact that I’m co-owner of WooThemes and owner of {radiiate}, whilst also adding a dynamic touch to those sections (i.e. I don’t just want to publish that static information). I could probably use LinkedIN for this, but I’d prefer to create something on http://www.adii.co.za that serves the same purpose.

@Andy - I think it is a double-edged sword really… We need less content, since we’re struggling to cope with the information overload; but to some extent a lifestream is even more tit bits of information (as Mike Robinson mentions) and in my opinion also less valuable than amazing written content.

@Foxinni - You’re not a bad writer bro! So what you planning? Some WP tutorials?

@Jeremy - Did you have any other ideas that you can share here? I definitely think a separate lifestream page, integrated nicely into an overall blog design can be greatly beneficial, but I don’t think that it would serve its complete / perfect purpose on its own (and thats why I’ve been considering those other additions).

@adii: [Re: portfolio] That makes sense. [Re: Lifestreaming] I could write a lot more about this but ironically most web users wouldn’t read it all anyway! Writing long posts about micro data-chunks that no one will read completely because they want it all to be small, now that’s irony.

When I manage to make some progress on the design I’ll send you a sneak peak, maybe it will give you some ideas

Life streaming is something you quite well already Adii, just through your blog. I think that anyone reading your stuff not only has a rally good idea about your business, but also has a very good idea of who you are. Adding a more up to date stream of tit bits will certainly enhance your comms.

There will always be a need for quality content, that is focused on topics and ideas. So I cannot see all of the blogs moving this way. I think that Mike is onto something in terms of adding this element “side by side”

ps. let me know which theme you think I should be moving to as I need to change the look a little I would like it to be move “generic” in terms of losing categories, but still structured, not too disimilar to your styling (I know this may be viewed as another form of “identity theft”

I love blog but I’m just too lazy in writing a post. Reading blog post is almost one of my habit, it just that I don’t have other things to do at the office or at home. And when it comes to writing a post, I’m so lazy.. heheh but sometimes it’s fun ^_^.

Spent the last couple of months building a wordpress site that will push the limits just that must further. A few months? Yes, and still counting - it isn’t your everyday wordpress blog. I decided to do this because I too feel that it’s time to move away from what was, to something new. I think that’s why mag themes did so well, as it was different. And premium was added options. But things are shifting up again and this is just my opinion - less clutter, more direction, one location to show only the best or what’s relevant and everything must be completely automated or just one click change - so that you can focus on what people really want (fresh, quality content / themes / tuts / whatever your niche) .