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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 was reading Tony’s...Submitted by Buzzing Bye » On A Personal Status Page (not verified) on October 24, 2005 - 10:55am.
[...] I was reading Tony’s CodeMode Chronicles this afternoon and came across his note on ‘Everybody needs a personal “status” page‘ at 43folders. I realized that I’d been starting to do list just about the same information at the top of the menu here. It isn’t exactly dynamic or overflowing with cool stuff, but a start. I wandered over to the WordPress support forums to see what kinda cool stuff they may have already have come up with in this area. I didn’t come up with anything cool so I posted something to get the creative juices flowing. So you don’t have to bounce around to read it, here is what I said: I’d like to see a “Personal Status” page or some such idea. Basically, it would have the ability to connect to all sorts of places that keep track of information about me to provide dynamic info about what I’ve been upto. [...] » POSTED IN:
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