I have been giving some thought as to the direction of this site. 90% of this site’s design is centered about a blog. It doesn’t take long to notice that I don’t blog very often. So I have been playing with the idea of turning this site into a lifestream. The design would give equal weight to these things:
- Blog
- Portfolio
- Delicious
- Pandora
- Blippr
- Flickr
So in one place you could see things that I write, work on, tweet, read, listen to, use and take pictures of. I would like to keep everything grouped together instead of being a true blended lifestream. So how would I accomplish this? I just started playing around with FriendFeed today. I’m not a pro yet but I don’t like the blended feed that it creates but the ability to comment on each individual item is cool.
The other method I stumbled upon to create a lifesteam is from Yahoo called Yahoo Pipes. Its complex, powerful and cool all at the same time. You import data from anywhere you can grab it and send that data through pipes to different modules and filters. In the end I’m left with a very customizable lifestream. The only question is how do I get that stream on my website in a way that allows me total control over it’s presentation. It will be something to work on for sure, but this does mean that this site will probably go through another redesign. You knew it was going to happen, it was only a matter of time. Four months to be exact. Ugh!
Stay tuned, I’m sure I can knock this out by next week.
