Boffin + Wonk

This fragmentation, or distribution to put it in perhaps a better light, means that instead of having one pamphletware homepage, even casual internet users often have at least one or two other places where content is stored and updated online and, more significantly, where their identity is updated. Do you use Facebook? Flickr? Del.icio.us? These sites all have content that elaborates on your identity, and if that content is not at least accessible from your homepage, then it's not attached to you.

I like messing with web technology, so my own homepage has gone through dozens of iterations from many flat HTML pages to my most recent customized PmWiki installation. But in the last year or two I have come to use so many other sites for different purposes that much of my content is not posted on my own site. For instance, like lots of other people, the more I tweet, the less I blog on my own site. And now that I found Posterous, which lets me post to a blog by email, I've stopped posting to my own blog altogether.

So tonight I embraced the inevitable fragmentation of the 21st Century internet, despite the efforts of social aggregators like Friendfeed, Swurl and Socialthing, and I recalibrated my website as a portal, almost a placeholder, with links to the other sites where I update content. In effect, It's back to a pamphletware site, but linked to much more dynamic sites than I imagined when I had my first page in 1994.

Embrace the fragmented web. New ways of distributing content necessitate new ways of displaying it. Welcome to the web 2.0 homepage: http://kaplan-myrth.ca.