Lifestreaming has been around for a while, arguably longer than blogging.
Where a blog is a collection of regular entries containing commentary around a certain person, topic, niche or business, authored by the people associated with it, lifestreaming is a centralized collection of the various streams about a single person, topic, niche, business or other entity.
Though it’s been growing in popularity for individuals at a fair clip since 2007, the technology to successfully lifestream has been behind the rate and design at which a business would find useful.
Most individual lifestreams are a collection of every public stream of information that individual finds relevant to share. If you’re familiar with services like FriendFeed, you may already have an idea what this looks like.
Each week, we’re going to start having a round-up post that explores some of the best-of information from other sites our team reads. This week, we’re putting the spotlight on conversations about what to look forward to in 2010. 
Evergreen Traffic
Some folks have realized that they don’t necessarily have to be bloggers to benefit from blog traffic, and have taken to commenting on blog posts to increase traffic and links.
10 Easy Ways to Increase Blog Commenting
Everyone wants more blog comments – enough never seems to be enough. As a blogger, you can get addicted to how much feedback you’re generating. Be careful that you’re not posting just to be controversial, instead of focusing on the value of your post itself.
Having said that, with a few exceptions, posts that inspire comments from your audience can become part of what makes your blog more popular, and can keep it that way if the comments keep coming. Right or wrong, blog comments are seen as an indication of how successful your blog is.
1- Make it as easy as possible to comment.
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