These days I’m finding my attention is split up among so many various Web services that blogging is simply losing out. Not that I don’t love writing, of course, but these days when I find an interesting piece of information worth calling out I’m more likely to share it through Google Reader, post it to del.icio.us, write a quick blurb about it on Twitter or Digg it, where it gets shared via my Facebook profile.
In the 90′s it seemed like everyone had a personal home page with pictures, interests and links to other pages they liked. The social network has largely replaced the home page, and many people maintain blogs and accounts with any of the countless Web 2.0 services that compete for our attention.
I would really like to figure out how to include all of this information on one page, with each aspect featuring its own RSS feed. Facebook has come the closest to this idea since it opened up its API, but users there are still stuck, in many ways, within a walled garden. Web widgets are also progressing in this direction, but don’t offer the essential ability to customize.
Looks like I have some research to do.
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