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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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 Ah, see: this is what...Submitted by Andrew White (not verified) on October 19, 2005 - 4:23am.
Ah, see: this is what we used to have finger for! When I was in university, I had a little shell script than I ran when I logged in to the UNIX system that asked me where I was, what I was doing, how long I thought I'd be there, and if I wanted visitors. This would get written to my .plan. Then people could grep the list of users online, and see where I was, and if they wanted and I was cool with it, they could swing by. I think extending FOAF, or coming up with some kind of lightweight XML DTD for sharing personal status would completely take off. Someone could even figure out a way to use a stripped-down Jabber client for it that does nothing but poll your friends' status. Surely there's got to be some way to do this with RSS? Some little PHP script that could be run through PHP with Magpie that can give you a dashboard of your friends status? » POSTED IN:
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