Serious Questions

If you were going to design a Home page, what would you include in it? I’m talking about a page that would be the first thing you’d look at in the morning and the last thing you’d look at at night. It could have anything in it. RSS feeds, social media feeds, email notifications, blogrolls, chat functions, music libraries, whatever you can think of. It could be customizable, so you can pick what you want, how it’s displayed, and change things when you get bored. But it would have access to all the things you need to check and all the tools you like to use.

And one other question. For those of you who keep your blogging personas completely separate from your real-life persona, how could we make anonymity work with such a Home page? Could it be as simple as not letting anyone else see what you see, so you can have your Facebook and Twitter feeds on your home page without worrying that people will figure out who you are? Or maybe just have a box to check if you want to remain anonymous that then provides different options?

Author: BooMan

Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.