It's 2010! We've been living with the internet for over a decade now. There's so many ways to present oneself - forms we can fill out on social networks, or tiny status boxes for us to write a short sentence on our moment by moment affairs.
I started a personal web site here jeez like sixteen years ago. It seems dated to have a weblog! And write long things, expecting people to pay attention to them.
So I went looking for inspiration - people who have compelling personal web sites in 2010. I found Matt Haughey still maintains a nice, active personal site. He introduces himself in a friendly way, provides updates from his various streams, and the site is not too crazy or cluttered. Not too bad considering his archives go back ten years now!
I just installed Movable Type 5, because it will output hard files each time I write a blog entry. Hard files fit better with years of online publishing slag in my archives. Now I've got to figure out how to style this site, maybe using a slideshow in Japanese, maybe just using some elbow grease and HTML tables!!
So this is to thank Matt Haughey for some inspiration. He's going through a medical excitement recently, so it's great that he continues to share himself graciously with the web.
UPDATE 8 January: Besides his personal site, Matt has done some innovative web business work. He started a topic-focused weblog, PVR Blog, about Tivo-type technology, and he shared some lessons on fortuito.us. Fortuitous is good reading for independent web business work; now dated for 2007; fortunately his topics and advice are evergreen. And, he's the founder of MetaFilter a sustainable, content-rich online community. Good stuff, online!
