Ah, the Digital Lifestyle Aggregator page.

The major blogging packages have really not addressed the “About Me” page to any great extent. Picture what might be:- - Structured CV and Profile data in human and machine readable format. (vcard, hCard, FOAF, whatever) - Personal Identity Server using one of the low end SSO systems like SXIP, OpenID, LID, TypeKey. - Aggregated RSS for your activity on the web. Flickr, del.icio.us, plazes, last.fm, Amazon wishlist, other blogs, blogrolling.com, RSS subscription lists, etc etc. Custom services to things like IM status. - Aggregating in arbitrary plain text lists as described above or with a real database and web UI - Arms length contact me form that lets people leave a private message without exposing your email address

At the moment, weblogs are still just focussed on the personal publishing angle. We need to beef up the periphery and take them to the next stage. People are doing this ad hoc with sidebar applets, so it clearly should get baked into the core distributions. It’s also a natural for the big hosted systems like MSN Spaces.

One other similar need is the ability to automatically generate blog posts from blogs posted elsewhere on other systems. So if I post a blog on Ecademy or Tribe it should automatically appear in my home blog.

Lots of potential code here. Somebody pick it up!