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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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 I don’t understand this need...Submitted by Merlin on October 22, 2005 - 5:10am.
I don’t understand this need for micro self-disclosure at all Well, then it sounds like it’s definitely not something for you, Gerard; I’d suggest not doing it. :) I do like status pages as a way to “glance” information on what people are up to, and to quickly see what’s new. How people use it (or how often someone else checks it) is actually quite a different issue. If we threw out all the tools that could be abused by narcissists (God, what a great word!), we wouldn’t have much leftover for all those sweet, humble, altruistic people to use, would we? :) » POSTED IN:
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