Flavorite Tom Watson waxes nostalgic about the heyday of the personal website. I couldn’t agree more. Much of that nostalgia, along with a healthy enjoyment for so-called Web 2.0 apps of today (Flickr, etc.) is what inspired me to aggregate all my online data here at jeffcroft.com. He also mentions ChrisGlass.com, which is definitely amongst the best personal websites I’ve ever seen.
Personal websites are what got me excited about the Internet back in 1994. I hope the MySpaces, Facebooks, and Virbs of the world don’t supplant them.
001 // Matt Robin // 08.14.2007 // 1:40 AM
Likewise, hey, same year too!
Sadly (at least with MySpace), I think they already have to some extent.
I mean, even in my own case - I’m on Facebook and Virb - and express personal stuff there more than anywhere else on the Web - while my own site isn’t a personal site at all, but a blog about web design/web industry matters.
002 // Baxter // 08.14.2007 // 12:38 PM
I think that having your own site instead of a myspace/virb/facebook page is like the difference between buying and renting.
Then again, what do I know… my personal gets updated so infrequently I don’t even bother giving the address out.