Some folks say that the personal website is dying. I don’t buy that.
But at the same time, it’s obvious that some of blogging’s core functions are being used more productively in other areas. While blogging remains an excellent tool for logging important events or articles, other services are taking over for the more frequent, and less time consuming, communications.
The reason I’m bringing this up is to let anyone who may float by my blog in the future that I’ve not suddenly gone mute or lost my typing fingers, I’m simply plugged in elsewhere. Why? Efficiency. Here’s where you can find me:
Contact, status, community: Facebook. I update my Facebook profile fairly frequently and it acts as a hub for my “stuff”. Chances are, if I’m doing something online that I want others to know about, it will show up on Facebook.
Moment by moment coverage: Twitter. I’m not a hardcore user, but I do update it nearly every day. It’s a great way to share web pages, random thoughts, or funny videos with everyone at once. Simply go to my Twitter page and click follow to find out what I’m doing. And I just might follow you too!
Pictures: Facebook. I’m not a big picture guy. Mainly because I don’t use our camera all that much. But it is much more simple to upload pictures to Facebook than to blog them. You can also send them to other Facebook users, add captions, and “tag” others who are in the picture which is a fabulous way to share photos. Facebook even allows video and audio as well, so it’s likely to be my primary tool for these mediums on a personal level.
So, is my blog dead? No. But don’t expect to see any of the aforementioned items here. In fact, all my blog posts show up on Facebook too.
I hope you decided to hook up to Facebook and Twitter so we can stay in contact! And if you want to get connected, nothing does it easier than Flock. Both Twitter and Facebook are completely integrated into Flock and are a breeze to set up. Flock also handles accounts for flickr, picasa, pownce, digg, piczo, youtube, blogger, wordpress, photobucket, del.icio.us, gmail, and yahoo! mail… among others. And it supports most Firefox extensions. So yeah… I highly recommend it!
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