[mkka]

One conversation I've noticed going on recently re Twitter and social media is the power of owned media, like podcast, email, and blogs, over walled gardens. Blogs, maybe "personal websites", are a home base. Maybe not the whole solution but a foundation.

[asdff]

It used to be common for personal websites to be your home base. You'd have maybe the on topic posts of the blog (e.g. a scientist blogging in their field), the off topic posts (e.g. your hiking trip), and then a fileshare of collegues, friends, or family photos perhaps, and then maybe special interest stuff like the base depth of your favorite ski slope, or the local surf report for the day. Basically, it would be a combination of LinkedIn, facebook, twitter, and instagram, all under a domain you control with a feature set and design dictated by you alone, maybe paying a few dollars a month or a year seeing limited traffic, maybe "free" if you run it on the desktop you already have plugged into the corner of the room.