After a few comments and now more than a few emails asking me for my Wordpress theme for this site I figured it was high time to explain a bit about how my site works and the concepts behind it.
The idea is a simple one, but with a bit of an over-the-top solution: I just want a personal site that incorporates (go figure) everything I do online (the vast majority of it, anyway). Since new toys pop-up all the time, I want the site to be flexible enough to deal with any new service that I might fancy down the road.
Blogs aren’t enough. People are tweeting, posting photos to Flickr, adding events to Upcoming, bookmarking to Del.icio.us and Ma.gnolia and generally just “life streaming.” Each of these has their own community that I enjoy participating in, so I don’t want to abandon them with the hope of trying to build an entirely new audience on my own site. The solution is obvious, bring in all my distributed “stuff” from these services to my personal site.