Dear lifestream lovers,

Premium content on this site is on indefinite hiatus. While this is a sad time for hott pix aficionados & diary viewers alike, I feel it is absolutely necessary for me to focus only on free & public content here for the time being.

As a web designer, I implemented the “premium content” system on my site because I thought it was a brilliant way to generate income from one’s daily life. The problem was that I spent so much time trying to figure out what to do with such a lovely system that I didn’t have time for creating!

I want to thank the people who support me by subscribing to this site. I advise you to cancel your subscription today, unless you’d like to keep helping me with a monthly donation :] I promise to give you more than ever before, harder than you knew you liked it!

This lifestream of attraction wants to be free! Who’s going to start lifestreaming if they have to pay to figure it out? My number one mission is to inspire people to lifestream because I think it is so rawsome, and I can’t do that in the unsearchable dark!

That being said, I am making money off this site in other ways, so it’s all good in my wallet. You can support the site in a few different ways here.

I’m endlessly inspired by people who make & sell gorgeous, hand-crafted downloadable content, like Gala Darling, Jetta Vegas, and Philosophers Notes. My own projects are in the works now, so please sign up for the mailing list for more information when the time comes.

love & lust,
Jessica

P.S. Current subscribers can still login and access the premium archive at any time. You can even still sign up, if you want to see what it’s like in there!

[recorded 6.17.10 | duration: 00:02:30 | Music credit: abstract bizzoff by CIRC | Subscribe in iTunes]
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Putting your life online can be scary, but the rewards are great! This video is about three ways lifestreaming can help you get what you want in life. First, posting about your goals gives you accountability and self-discipline. Second, lifestreaming is an amazing tool for expressing gratitude. Wallace Wattles says “the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.” Lastly, lifestreaming is a way to tell your own future.

[recorded 6.13.10 | duration: 00:01:46 | Music credit: fire cut by CIRC | Subscribe in iTunes]
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This video is 100% pure lifestream propaganda. My current job in life is to get people to lifestream. Transparency will solve the world’s problems! Lifestreaming helps you magickally get what you want. Believe!

As I toil away on my site OVERHAUL TO THE MAX, please enjoy this gem from Monday’s photoshoot.

[recorded 4.8.10 | duration: 00:12:01 | Subscribe in iTunes]

Why do I get up in the morning? I want to transcend reality of course, doesn’t everyone? But what actually drives me every single day is LEARNING. I love to learn about myself and the world around me. Lifestreaming teaches me about myself and the world. And it is a way of being consciously observant and mindful. By documenting myself and the world, I learn and begin to see patterns.

After I’ve gained knowledge from lifestreaming, I can take and apply it to my life. Lifestreaming is actively changing my life, not just passively observing. I want to focus on how lifestreaming can replace institutional learning. But how will you curate your education? By observing your life and documenting it, you begin to realize what you are passionate about. Is it drawing, knitting, cats, baseball? You’ll figure it out as you document your life. I spend a lot of time documenting food, exercise, metaphysical pursuits and lifestream design. It took me almost two years to figure out that those are the things I want to learn about most.

I love putting myself on the Internet and it is my artistic expression, but that is only one half of it. The other half is learning from doing that. I get feedback, criticism and support from people by putting myself online. And I get access and suggestions to so many resources and so much information organically that would be extremely difficult to get from a college course.

Lifestreaming is very useful for personal empowerment and self-evaluation. But creating a lifestream that other people want to read is an entirely different story. After publicly tracking, in detail, many facets of my life for the past two years, I’ve come to realize that it can be exceedingly boring to watch.

My lifestream has helped me design a life I love living. But I want to help other people use lifestreaming to enhance their own lives. So I removed all the banal updates about myself from the main feed, leaving only posts that explore life design, learning and lifestreaming.

This site is about using lifestreaming to learn about yourself and the world, so that you can design the life you want.

The category “lifestreaming for utopians” may include posts about lifestream workflow, things to try posting, and above all, realtime examples of why sharing our lives online is a positive and powerful way to improve daily life. The goal of sharing our experiences with the world is to increase understanding between us. In a lifestream utopia, constructive and destructive forces still exist, but we replace privacy with empathy and shared understanding.

My podcast Learning with Lifestreaming will be about using lifestreaming to learn life to the fullest. I argue that lifestreaming can replace institutional education. It used to be that one needed a college degree to live the “good life.” But with endless knowledge on the Internet at our fingertips, a new paradigm is unfolding.

I am still exploring types of premium subscription content in my lifestream. I don’t want to lock up important knowledge, but I also need to make a living. I welcome any suggestions in that area :] For now I will be investigating tarot card readings for subscribers, creating lifestream worksheets, posting source files and unedited podcast videos.

With the vast amount of updates I publish to my lifestream, it’s easy to get lost in the details. To clarify my research path as a Design MFA candidate at the University of Texas, I want to explain what it is I study and how it is relevant to learning.

Lifestreaming is the act of documenting and sharing your life online. A lifestream website collects all of the things you publish (e. g., photos, tweets, videos, or blog posts) and displays them in reverse-chronological order.

My research tests lifestreaming as a life design methodology. By publicly documenting my life at jessicamullen.com, can I become more accountable for my decisions, strengthen my reputation, break bad habits and live my passions?

As a learning tool, lifestreaming may help students become more active, self-directed learners. Students who used lifestreaming in a course at the University of Edinburgh reported increased motivation for exploration and sharing. Lifestreaming one’s learning process can encourage participation, preserve a record of engagement, and build a portfolio of knowledge.

After graduation in May, I will continue my investigation into learning with lifestreaming as a both an educator and lifelong student.

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I just attended Penelope Trunk‘s webinar on how to make money from your blog. I learned that subscription content doesn’t work, and that inspirational posts are selfish. What now?