get my internet personae organized

I erased the whiteboard in my study and started making a map of all my online identities, sites with accounts, etc.

Results so far: I have 4 distinct (major) clusters of accounts.

The first is isolated from the others, and this constellation includes most of my blogs/journals, 43things, and the like. This constellation has a weak connection to a new personality/identity that I have been forming for a specific purpose. It has no connection to my real world identity (except via IP logs on servers or my ISP).

There are two clusters that are fully linked both ways. One is my personal email/Facebook (fully identified with my real name) and the other is my professional online identity. These accounts also link to my phones so that connects to real life and real world locations.

Yet another cluster, fully isolated from the rest, was one that my wife and I used for, well, let’s call it research into free expression. It is made up of half a dozen email fronts, some journaling, and is mostly defunct though I do still use the IM channel once in a great while.

There is a much weaker identity that I have been building up recently that I want to use for artistic practice. It will be integrated to my personal and work accounts; used mostly as a front to keep this part of my life encapsulated-at least electronically-but not as a cut-out for isolation of stuff I’m doing from my real identity.

Still not sure of what I will do to integrate/coordinate all of this, but making a list is the start.

I now have Twitter and I have assigned it to this personality, the one at 43things and Livejournal. Now, will any of this ever merge with my reality?

Another never ending goal as phrased. I’m thinking this will be called after my next big life change this upcoming year or so. I’ll finalize a lot of it then.

OpenID helps!

Well, the bulk on my online presence lives under just one name now, so that is something. Onward...

Like most people, I have been on the internet for a number of years and have left little bits of myself all over the place. I am a writer of a blog, commentator in discussions, deliverer of files and information, indexer of websites, composer of essays, etc., etc. I’d like to get all of this organized in one place or at least with some good order, whichever is more appropriate.

This will ultimately require a website as a starting point.