(this post has an update at Categories of virtual Identity II)

Warning: the web never forgets
The tv program I saw yesterday inspired me of the following thoughts. In the future you might consider your online being as a really second me. How do you create your second me, and how do you keep it in control? An article about detective bureaus checking who you are when you apply for a job, reminded me about how important it is to be carefull in what you write and publish. As you google for my name for instance you find on the second page a post I put in a guestbook in 1999 that kinda scares me. 7 years ago my whole vision of the world coud be completely different, and yet you (and everyone else) can still find the things i wrote back than. (not to mention archive.org) Now for me that’s not such a big problem i had never radical visions, but still, I want it to be my own decision about what you know about me and what not. (An idea for an emma project would perhaps be, make an education site where you can learn how to use the internet and let it work for you now and in 7 years)

Personal Portal
In the past months I have seen some sites that build the idea for a weblog in to a complete personal portal (mine should become svirsk.org/blog). These personal portals remind me in some ways of the 2000 period where everything had to be portal (this period was off course brutally ended by the google interface) So where will this lead to? A small list of website’s I already found:

the-daily-mess.de/blog/ I like this blog because it tries to mix it all together text, images, links etc. And it’s horizontal layered, and not explicit 2 or 3 columns (For the record I have to say she was my colleague at Mediamatic)

shauninman.com/plete/ I discovered this site a few months ago, and for the first time since a long time, my mouth fell open and i said “wow”. Especially in love with his dropdown navigation. (the menu reminded me a bit of the Amsterdam.nl site)

mattbrett.com/ The first blog where I really noticed it. Having flickr photos, cd’s portfolio items posts comments quick links and much more, all on one page.

http://veerle.duoh.com/ some days ago i came across the blog of Veerle, She also caputred it all on one page. Which makes me wonder, it’s this the best solution or would be splitting image from words (like i do) be a better one?

a list of interest
jaredigital.com/
9rules.com/
fiftyfoureleven.com/
lisamcmillan.com/journal/
(please contact me when you know more examples)

The question perhaps is, what are these pages? Is it rehypermediation? where first there was hypermedia (more forms of media on one screen) there now is a screen where there are many multimedia outputs generated in one screen. Is the weblog time coming to it ends, and do you only count when your site is totally web2.0′ed (In other words are you only cool when you have at least the output from flickr, delicious last.fm technorati in one page) Is content still king here? Is this the revenge of the technic people (who can use there technical knowledge to out-cool the normal webloggers, who just have to stick to their normal template) Or are these the first sign of something new at the horizon?.