I'm tempted to try and re-engineer this site to something similar to the new Facebook news feed. It would pull in my various "feeds" across my various accounts (Twitter, flickr, digg, Google Reader) and then just display them in chronological order as I do things. It's much easier to send a tweet or digg something than it is to sit down and write a post.

On the flip side, I don't want to lose a lot of the great content I've accumulated on this site since 2000. Be a shame to get rid of that. I've currently got a test site setup running Wordpress that is pulling in my twitter updates. Not a huge fan of Wordpress though, because it's based around logging into a site and creating a post. I think I'm done with that. I just want to interact with the web during a normal day, but be able to capture all of those interactions in one place. Facebook is ok, but generally I've grown to dislike that site more and more. It'd be nice to have a standalone website doing what I described.

Might give me an excuse to start programming with asynchronous technologies (Gearman, MemcacheQ, etc.) to have an automatically updated website.

Thoughts?

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#3: by Anon@203.109.198.146 on 3/21/09 2:13AM (reply)
yeah! an open facebook, or better, a privately-controlled one, seems super. imo, the actual aggregation should offer a simple feed like the "/river" you experimented with. it might be challenging to create structure in that small space, but something like a simple date, feed source, and maybe category might be nice (like 'random thought', 'event note', 'idea', 'rant/pre-essay')

• #3, most of the sites I w... - Justin on 3/21/09 1:20PM (#4)
• #4, do it! - Anon@122.108.206.145 on 5/11/09 11:46PM (#5)

#1: by bill on 3/19/09 4:29AM (reply)
Sounds like a cool idea. I am with you - I neither enjoy nor extract value from Facebook. Although I don't send updates much (yet), I like Twitter much more.

The notion of having your own site to aggregate your various online presences (don't forget Flickr) sounds like a proper post-Web-2.0-interesting mashup. Aggregated info seems like the way to go. Have you heard about EveryBlock.com? Heard the founder give a speech about it - sort of micro-blogging and micro-news for your specific block in your city. Lots of relevant, related info in one place.

It would be a great learning experience too, and I would visit the site :) As a side note, we use MemCacheD at Trade Me and it has worked really well for us.

As for the content of plock.net, yeah, don't lose it :) See if you can source it through another feed plugin on the page that extracts random pieces of content or something. Maybe still let people do posts, but yeah. The Internet breeds laziness, so whatever you can do to put as much useful/cool info in one spot sounds rockin'.

• #1, yea memcached is pret... - Justin on 3/19/09 2:06PM (#2)

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