The vanishing personal site

posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 29 April, 2008 to the comment subset

The vanishing personal site

Where have all the personal websites gone? Gone to self-syndicating Web 2.0 applications like Twitter, Flickr, and del.icio.us, every one of them.

Our personal sites, once our primary points of online presence, are becoming sock drawers for displaced first-person content. We are witnessing the disappearance of the all-in-one, carefully designed personal site containing professional information, links, and brief bursts of frequently updated content to which others respond via comments. Did I say we are witnessing the traditional personal site’s disappearance? That is inaccurate. We are the ones making our own sites disappear.

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