Cleaning House 2.0

I've been re-evaluating many different aspects of my life because of the new year. This recently brings to mind a part of my life that is most certainly a big part of my identity: my online life.

Having not written on my more public, hosted blog in months, I think it may be time to really let this one die. There have been multiple iterations of my blog which has been resurrected many times on different domains. I've gone through MJ's Lifecycle of Bloggers multiple times. But I think this time, it's a more permanent change.

I'm all over the web. I'll admit that I'll jump on a new site's bandwagon very quickly, to try things out and be one of the first to do so... Beta, Gamma, whatever. My love affair with social networking sites comes and goes, and the time that I spend with individual sites varies quite a bit.

I think I have the right idea with my current index (home) page, which is basically an ever-changing page that collects all the information in one place. I guess it's a bit of what Merlin calls a "Status Page". The magic of RSS enables me to have a dynamic page without needing to update it myself. I think I want to take this a step further and have this page be all I have publicly on my domain... my own personal hub, if you will. So this means, the blog on that domain dies. Well, not exactly, it just ceases to be updated and is taken off the main page. The archives will probably remain.

Vox is now going to be my primary blog, but of course, that may be subject to change. Having my dynamic home page seems like a more forgiving way to be able to change blogs and networks. For now, I dig Vox, its features and its community for the most part, and it's been good to me. So, for the time being, this is where I stay.

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On another (but related) note, this also brings up the domains left behind from lives past. If anyone's interested in any of my old domains, let me know. I let the auto-renew cycle, and I honestly don't need them anymore:

• geekychick.net
• endofthetour.com
• sfbaybloggers.com (yup, giving this up too)