Bluejake

In the not so distant future, I believe that most tech-savvy people will have more than one website that they regularly access and maintain. In fact, I predict that most people will have three sites: a personal site, a professional site, and a community site.

This trend is already starting to manifest itself. Blogs have made it laughably easy to put up a personal site, and adding photo galleries and other enhancements takes about five minutes of work. Millions are already on-line. Professional sites with portfolio, resume, and contact information are already a necessity for those of us that work in the technology business; soon they'll be mandatory for everyone else. Handing out a business card or faxing in a resume? Totally passe.

The community site is a little less obvious, but those of you who have used sites like Metafilter, Kuro5hin, and Slashdot understand what I'm talking about: a site where you come to discuss issues, ideas, and news with like-minded people. The sites I mentioned are large, but smaller community sites exist and you can find ones dedicated to almost every imaginable interest. For my part, I like my community site to be a little more local, preferably made up of people that I actually know in real life. For that reason, I've created the Gothamist site: it's like a micro-Metafilter, and it's pretty popular among my 6 friends.

Ideas, Ideas