machine501

I read a blog post by Jeff Clavier about Twitter, Microblogging, and when Twitter might go mainstream.  I thought, yeah: I publish much more often on Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, and am starting to mess around with Muxtape.  So I looked around for a widget for my blog where I could put up my different streams from different social services.  I found friend feed and thought it’d be good to put on my blog.  That’s when it hit me: why not just make my stream my home page?  Why not replace my whole blog with my social stream, and just make my longer entries part of that stream?  So I whipped up a script in a few minutes and came up with what you see on the front page of my site.

Is this the way we’ll start to see online presence for those of us brave enough to run our own blogs?  Basically, this is a way to publish feeds from your online identities, not to aggregate feeds you’re interested in.  It’s not a personal feed aggregator.  It’s a starting point for people to get to your online identity(ies).

I have a bunch of ideas for this.  The initial, quick and dirty, version of these scripts is setup in a somewhat modular format, so as you sign up to new services, or new services appear you just drop in a new module and it will load those up.  Each item from each service can be customized as you want using CSS.  And you can control how often it should aggregate your content.  The source is coming soon but if you want to play with it I can post it.

Let me know what you think.

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