You’ll see a few changes across the board in the next week or two as I gradually re-factor my digital life. What’s this mean? Well I have 4 blogs, 4 active e-mail addresses (other inactive ones), three web hosts (only one I remember the password to and it’s broken), 1 old http site archived on disk, more social network accounts than I can track, e-mail spam from sites I don’t read, feeds from sites I do and generally a fractured on-line identity that has evolved as the internet has evolved.
I’m going to be actively stream-lining all this activity to centralise it into services that I do use, where you can come to get the latest. I’m going to actively shut-down accounts I don’t use (Jaiku) and make more prominent services I am using (Twitter and LinkedIn).
I’ve already created an OpenID account (yes, I’m slow) and I’m setting BinaryPlex as a delegator of my OpenID to http://claimid.com. In light of this I’m going to actively re-consider my use of sites like http://del.icio.us (which doesn’t support OpenID) and consider http://ma.gnolia.com instead which does.
The end aim will be a new, streamlined, re-factored Internet me, that is updated to take advantage of the latest trends. I think it’s an essential piece of housekeeping that everyone should do!
To that end, I’ve reluctantly retired the old green BinaryPlex format for a much more up to date, 2-column, widget and WordPress 2.5.x compatible theme. I hope it grows on me, I have been very attached to the greenery one :-). The 2-columns will become more important as I intend to feed more meta information into this site than I have in the past.
As I conduct each step, I’ll blog about why I’ve made the moves I have and what I see the advantages are. Maybe some of you will join me on this adventure and I hope to take small steps towards catching up with those others of you who have passed me by while my digital identity has been standing still over the last 12 - 18 months.
