Twitter and Justin.TV: Swimming in Streams of Content

I would be writing about this on my company blog, but unfortunately it’s down due to some propagation issues surrounding our new site. We should be back up and running soon.

I’m just watching my old friend Justin Kan on his new “lifecast” Justin.TV. Basically, he walks around with a camera on his head all day and does interesting stuff. Yes, he even goes to the bathroom with the camera on his head.

Watching Justin got me thinking about the changing pace of content on the Web. With the “microblogging” on Twitter and this kind of “lifecasting” now a reality, all the streams of content are picking up speed. It’s honestly a little overwhelming for me. Call me old-fashioned, but I still like to spend some of my time offline.

I still think that discreet chunks of information are the most powerful force on the Web. Justin.TV provides an archive of all the hilights from Justin’s day on their blog. Twitter offers archives. If they didn’t, it would be too much information to take in.

All of this underscores the problem of how do you sort through content to get to the most relevant chunks? It’s even more of an issue now than it was six months ago.