blogger beta!

Sometimes, "beta" actually means beta. Definately lots of glitches, but I have faith!

How are the new colors? Too much?

I'm in the process of adding labels to my old posts, which will of course take a while. I also noticed that I gave up transferring my LiveJournal posts after 2002, so I'm missing all of 2003. I need to get to that as well.

There are also privacy options for posts now. Not sure how that works (meaning, how do I add my friends)? I guess I'll figure it all out in time.

Another question... should I start integrating my various online identities? Should I put a link to my MySpace account on here? My LinkedIn account? My google pages website? I don't know. I like the scattered nature of my online presence but I don't think that'll last very long. The internet is a total mess right now and it's very easy to get away with having a half dozen email addresses and register a few dozen blogs and networking sites to these various emails. At some point, I think everyone will have to integrate their web presence into one singular, complete "persona."

IM client (i.e. AIM) -- social networking (i.e. MySpace) -- business networking (i.e. LinkedIn) -- homepage (i.e. Google pages) -- blog (i.e. blogger) -- message boards (i.e. hashkafah) -- calendar (i.e. Google calendar) -- picture repository (i.e. Flickr) -- movie rental (i.e. Netflix)

Should anyone who stumbles on one of these be able to trace me all the way through? Right now, I don't think even my friends could do it. Should there be 2 distinct personas - the personal, and the professional, and never shall the twain meet? I'm getting increasingly aware of online privacy issues... not that I can do much about it except keep my accounts separate, and where possible, restrict access (private posts, private pictures, etc).