Comments on: Mindcasting versus Lifecasting

By: What a year « New Media Mind

What a year « New Media Mind — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:26:06 +0000

[...] I became more mindful towards what I wrote and started to mindcast more. I explained my thoughts on lifecasting/mindcasting earlier in 2009. I think I still believe in a combination of mind/lifecasting. But I toned down the life portions. [...]

By: Jen Reeves

Jen Reeves — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:20:17 +0000

Thanks you guys… It really seems like the more people I talk to, the more either mindcast or mix it together.

By: Jamie Grey

Jamie Grey — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:15:22 +0000

Personally, I do both on my twitter. I use twitter for business, and the best thing about the program is giving me the ability to show viewers not only what’s coming up tonight on the news… but that I’m a real person with a personality!

By: Seth Putnam

Seth Putnam — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 04:14:01 +0000

Great topic. I think “mindcasting” and “lifecasting” are excellent ways to describe concepts that people have been subconsciously aware of for a while.

Silly as it sounds, it took me a while to realize that I need to be more selective about whom I follow on Twitter. But in general, I dislike lifecasting and tend to favor mindcasting. In my own blog, I started it with the intention of staying away from strict calendar-like lifecasting (“10:30am: I’m at Reporting,” etc.), but I think I’ve since found a balance that I’m comfortable with.

I guess I think that it’s important to follow the lifecasts of only those real-life acquaintances that you want to keep up with. In general, I think mindcasts are the more useful of the two.

By: Sarah Clark

Sarah Clark — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 03:46:19 +0000

Good storytelling needs both.

By: Jen Reeves

Jen Reeves — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:24:52 +0000

Exactly! That’s why it was so difficult to get out of that conversation when Twitter doesn’t force you to read or converse with anyone. I guess I just need to keep educating about how these tools can be helpful!

By: Steve Cusumano

Steve Cusumano — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:37:50 +0000

I think I tend to mindcast over lifecast, but one reason for that is that I can’t get to Twitter wit my my mobile phone (yeah, how lame am I?).

Not sure if I tweet any differently for work than I do for my personal life, and I’m not sure I’d want to tweet differently for the two. I think it’s important to use twitter (as a journalist) the same way our readers use it. To constantly use it just to promote yourself blatantly is to become ignored, and I think that’s something a lot of news organizations haven’t gotten yet. Like anything else, I think it comes down to if you’re interesting, or if you’re not.

Regarding the danger of someone being annoyed by your tweeting pattern, one way to view Twitter is as a radio. You can jump from station to station, and you’re not going to like everything you hear. And when that happens, you’re free to move to a different station. Twitter is the same…except everyone is a station. Don’t like what you hear, you’re free to move on (stop following).