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Everybody needs a personal "status" page
Merlin Mann | Oct 19 2005
Lots of sites have status pages. I wish more people had them.
Yeah, status pages for people should be more popular, and I also wish they were a bit easier to make and maintain. It would be a nifty way to display information like:
I've long had a Lazy Web wish for a little perl script that could That way you could maintain a bunch of easy lists and the script does all the building and posting automagically. You could fake this with a blogging tool, but I like the idea of having it all updated in the background. Got a good personal status page? Seen one you liked? What would you post on yours? Have a fast trick for helping noobs make and post status points to the interweb? Care to pick up my Lazy Web gauntlet? 72 Comments
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 That's funny, the first thing...Submitted by Jack Mottram (not verified) on October 21, 2005 - 6:07am.
That's funny, the first thing I thought of when I saw this post was Andrew White's handy little scripts - I grabbed them the other day have a status thing set up for friends to view, plus a sort of todo list/note taking thing using Quicksilver's append and prepend functions to input stuff. (If I keep tinkering, I suspect I'll end up with a really rubbish version of blosxom!) I'm not entirely sure whether status pages like this are always good idea on the publically accessible web, though - in my case, I'd doubtless update to say 'Having a cup of tea and watching telly becuase I can't be bothered writing the reviews due today' at the exact moment one of my editors checked my site. » POSTED IN:
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