Comments on: Bringing it all together

By: Hi, I’m Colin. » Blog Archive » Jeffrey Zeldman: The vanishing personal site

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:07:01 +0000

[...] be remiss not to mention my goal of Bringing it all together and how I’m getting pretty close to my personal online publishing [...]

By: “We just posted loads of clips all over the freakin’ place!” | Hi, I’m Colin Devroe.

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:29:33 +0000

[...] you know, I’ve been putting together a strategy of “Bringing it all together” wherein I’m starting to take much more control over what I “put out there” [...]

By: A few steps closer to bringing it all together | Hi, I’m Colin Devroe.

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:14:02 +0000

[...] lately. I’ve been making a few adjustments, tweaks, additions, and edits to this site since making my goal to bring everything together [...]

By: ChrisClark

ChrisClark — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:56:43 +0000

Thanks for the perspective, Colin. I’m way too obsessed with statistics for my own good.

By: Colin Devroe

Colin Devroe — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:57:44 +0000

Chris Clark: You’re definitely right, and that is a valid reason to use these services to interact with others. This approach is probably not for everyone, but I actually would rather interact with people here, on my site, rather than spread across all of these sites.

My site gets just about as much traffic as yours, but that has never really been a concern of mine actually. I’ve never really cared about statistics, I just like sharing things and having conversations about them.

So, I thank you for writing your comment here - because that is exactly what I hope will happen. More people will speak up here, instead of on other sites.

By: ChrisClark

ChrisClark — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:51:11 +0000

I don’t know… I think about doing this sort of thing all of the time. I used to host all of my photos on my own site, actually. But it was SUCH a hassle. Flickr made everything so much simpler, which is why I’ve stuck with them. I also dig the community over there, just as I dig the community at Viddler. I’m not sure that anybody really notices I’m there, and most of the time I feel like an outsider looking in at all of these community sites, but I do crave the human interaction I get from visiting places like Flickr and Viddler, however minimal the response to my contributions might be. I work for 10 hours a day in an office by myself, so I like to find ways to connect whenever I can. Pulling everything back onto my site, which is getting maybe 25 visitors a day (if I’m lucky), would really make me feel cut off.

Not sure if that’s helpful, or not. Sorry for the rambling.

By: Diana LeRoi-Schmidt

Diana LeRoi-Schmidt — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:32:40 +0000

I’ve been doing a very similar process since the beginning of the year. I felt like, why should I be stressed out trying to keep up with all the different social networks and services. They’re all wonderful, but it can be a full time job keeping up with each.

I like your idea of using your home page as the current status of the different services/networks.

I thought of a site that had a great layout and keeping everything out front, but he’s changed his design since then.

Good luck with the process. I’m going through and doing several sweeps of my accounts, cleaning out excess that’s just not needed, or canceling the service all together.

By: Josiah

Josiah — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:46:17 +0000

I’ve been thinking about this very same transition for a long time.

I love the “connectivity” available with the 10 million services out there, but I hate the workload.

I also love the extensibility that Wordpress has with custom fields and the like, and I’ve been looking for tools that would allow me to push all the content created on my domain to all the services out there, so I’m not just immediately cut off.

Like a post written into a “what’s up?” category, displayed how I wanted, and sent on it’s merry way to twitter (You can do this with some ghetto rigging using Twitter Tools - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/#post-313), or photo’s attached to a gallery or post, automatically uploaded to Flickr, etc.

I would love to hear how the project comes along, and see how you’re doing it. I’ll be looking for and thinking about solutions. If I find anything, I’ll let you know.