Up-to-now I have been looking for a way to share my lifestream and at the same time find an easy way to subscribe to lifestreams of those I find interesting. I have found plenty of software in this space. All of it does one of these two things really well. I can nicely share my lifestream or I can easily subscribe to the lifestream of others. None of the software I have looked at does both well.

This has me thinking it’s time to go outside the box or jumping back in the box. I guess this is a matter of perspective. I believe that the blog is the center of someone’s lifestream. It all starts right there, the real meat of someone’s lifestream is the blog. Everything else is just a connection back to the blog.

With that in mind let’s look at two services that might help us out. They are both similar to each other in that the allow you to merge a list of feeds together. The first is from my favorite, yet lacking direction, company Yahoo! with their Pipes product. The other is Feed Digest. Both basically allow you to roll a list of feeds into one feed that you can then distribute to anyone interested right from your blog or an e-mail for that matter.

Both of these services allow you to create a single RSS feed from multiple feeds, I find Feed Digest to be the easiest to work with. It took me a few minutes to create an account and create my lifestream (Subscribe to Elroy’s Lifestream). Feed Digest also supports several ways of exporting and displaying your streams.

Each of these services has their place. Try both and you decide.

Once you have a consolidated lifestream its a simple enough task to list it right on your blog for your friends to locate. Thus moving you to the focal point of your network instead of the application being that focal point (think Facebook and MySpace)