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To summarize the concept behind lifestreaming, it is a centralized place where all of your thoughts, pictures, videos, audio clips, and blogs end up. They can originate from Blogspot, Picasa, Flickr, YouTube, Wordpress, or any other place on the web. For friends, family, and followers, they only have to go to one place to see all of your web activity. It is a brilliant idea.

In a time where web sites are closing, merging, or changing, it is a much safer bet to diversify all of your content. Should one site go down, you do not lose everything you ever worked on. Just find another source and keep going.



Google Reader now allows you to pull all of your RSS feeds from other sites and bring them together in Reader. This collection of blogs and web sites is known as a bundle. To create, do the following:

1. Visit all of your favorite web sites and create a feed by pressing the RSS icon and selecting 'Google Reader.'
   
2. Under 'Your stuff' in Google Reader click on 'Browse for stuff'.
   
3. In the bottom right hand corner, click on 'Create a bundle.'
4. Once the new page loads, type a name and description for your bundle.
5. Now, review your feeds in the Subscription window and drag them into the bundle window.
6. Once you have added all of your feeds from around the web, click on the 'Save' button.

At this point, anyone using Google Reader can subscribe to your bundle and receive activity updates from all of your favorite sites. Give it a try and let me know how it works out for you.

Until next time...

The top 15 out of a 31-quip week.

A = Authors | C = Community

A / No. 57 / Armin / Card Observer, observing business card design. [Via Nice Fucking Graphics]

C / No. 48 / Plamen / The 50 Dollar Logo Experiment. I'm sure we can all guess the outcome.

A / No. 59 / Armin / Probably the prettiest toilet paper packaging you will ever see… even if it looks like someone just unpacked the Unilever logo on it.

A / No. 54 / Armin / Fifteen great man bags. Not exactly sure why I'm quipping this, but as a designer man, I always feel men get shortchanged with their carrying options. Any of these sure beat a fanny pack.

A / No. 60 / Armin / If you like random visual inspiration and have hours to kill you will love this site, "a lyrical encyclopedia of visual propositions. [Via It's Nice That]

A / No. 55 / Armin / Nice calendar concept: Scratch off the days as they go by. [Via Sub-Studio]

A / No. 71 / Armin / The winners of the 2009 Type Directors Club typeface competition.

A / No. 56 / Armin / Adorable, illustrated Monster-Letter alphabet. [Via Monoscope]

C / No. 47 / Plamen / The importance of typography in life.

C / No. 46 / Robert / One of the very few great uses of Flash 3D capabilities.

C / No. 52 / Millie Rossman Kidd / How good is your eye? I had Ed Benguiat first year type class at SVA and he'd teach us about centering, letterspacing and he'd say: "Eyeball it, man! I can teach you a lot of stuff, but if your eye's no good, forget it." This little game is pretty cool to test it out. (via VSL)

C / No. 49 / Ricardo Cordoba / The body as billboard.

A / No. 66 / Armin / Tired of your boring ol' e-mail signature? Spice it up with this ASCII Text Generator: enter a word, select a style and hilarity ensues. [Via HOW]

C / No. 53 / Myles / You GoGirl...all over the toilet seat.

C / No. 54 / Zachary Schweitzer / Key Commands Logo Project, Day One Series of Key Commands/shortcuts illustrated as thematically connected logos - ie (UPS logo, InDesign "package" key command")

[voice, body shaking] "We're really gonna to make it work this time, promise...Seriously, really, from one Joe to a Bro."

AIG Is In Talks With Government To Secure Additional Funds to Keep Operating [CNBC]

The punk years were pretty rough, both economically and sartorially speaking, but there’s no doubting Debbie Harry was one of the highlights.

Add in a few older gents settling into wine-soaked adulthood—we’re looking at you, Bowie and Keef—and it’s a photoset we’re more willing to take a glance at. The photos are all courtesy of godfather of rock photography Bob Gruen (hat tip to Phazerblast), and there’s plenty to like.

Don’t be surprised if the jeans look familiar.

—R.B.

get starbury outta here, make him stay away. but thank you this random guy for letting us into some quality starbury minutes:

The top 50 entries in Core77's Greener Gadgets Design Competition have been announced—and we have selected a group that have a good shot of making it to the top ten.

We loved the RITI coffee printer concept as well. It uses used coffee grounds instead of ink. Click on through to see the rest, including the Tweet-a-Watt! [Core77]

We're deep into preparation for TED2009. Here are some curtain-raisers:

Alan Saracevic from the San Francisco Chronicle has a Q&A with TED curator Chris Anderson >>

AFP previews the "mind-poking melange" on offer this year >>

Steve Rosenbaum compares TED and Davos in the Huffington Post >>

And Kara Swisher from All Things Digital writes about the new location and the amazing TED Fellows >>

Bookmark Wired's "TED at 25" page to follow Kim Zetter's reporting all week >>

Above, the Long Beach stage on Monday morning. See our "Pre-TED2009" Flickr set for more.