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A Lifecast is a website that lets you continuously stream your everyday activities by video, 24 by 24. The Lifecaster goes around with a camera attached, usually, to his headphones so as to record his every move on video to put online on his Lifecast website. Two people claim to have pioneered the Lifecast: Justin Kan, with his Justin TV http://fr.justin.tv and Joel Sauceda, the “Dot Com Guy”. Other sites have sprung up since then, allowing you to set up your own Lifecast: www.ustream.tv , www.BlogTV.com and so on. Thousands of internet users visit these platforms to see other users Lifecasts.
Lifecast
Updated : Monday 16 August 2010
Lifecasting has obviously failed to really catch on. Both the pioneer Lifecasters quickly tired of filming their lives 24 by 24, and presumably so did the visitors to their websites. Who, after all, can boast a life that deserves to be lived almost continuously in public? The Lifecast must be up there with Loft Story in the boredom stakes. To keep the visitors interested, you need to select the highlights to be filmed, and then edit and script them, all of which requires both time and easy-to-use technology, which doesn’t yet exist. In addition, the Lifecast must have been severely tested by the emergence of micro blogging sites like Twitter. Now it’s easy to give an account of your life at any time, with just a couple of clicks and no camera. Not by chance did the Dot Com Guy abandon his Lifecast in favour of Twitter. Does this mean there is no future for the Lifecast? Not necessarily. While today it is only a minority interest and some of its uses are frankly pornographic, with time and the availability of simpler video editing tools, the Lifecast could well start to attract serious chroniclers of events or travel, as part of the movement towards citizen journalism.
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