I have blogged about lifestream’s before (see Lifestreaming outside the box). I looked around for a good service to deal with creating and publishing a lifestream but haven’t been completely impressed by any of them. I had been using Lijit for a while, but it didn’t give me the ability to publish out a stream like I am doing here. It didn’t give me the ability to edit the feed title so I had this list of verbose feeds some not entirely making sense. And, as I found with most of them, they wanted to add extra junk I didn’t want, like search my feed. If you want to search my feed go to Google and limit by url.

Too much clutter.

So it had to go in and be replaced by the much cleaner list you see in the center. I publish an aggregated feed of my lifestream using Yahoo! Pipes which is perfect for this although I did look at Feed Digest to deal with this but found it’s interface muddled and I wasn’t clear what it was going to produce in the end so I went back to what I know. Probably not a fair evaluation but it is what it is.

Now for the interested, you can see everywhere I post on the Lifestream page. Not really I limit it to six of my most used feeds and I limit the web page to only display the last three days. If you are interested in what I posted older than that subscribe to the feed.

This is built using a brilliant PHP software package called SimplePie to manipulate the RSS feeds. If you need to parse RSS feeds, use this class.