Gillian, aggregated

As mentioned in my previous post, I decided to set up a tumblelog to aggregate all of my online activity. Why? Initially, I was inspired by a post on lifestreams by Steve Rubel. But mostly, because I can. You can find it at gillianross.com and it pulls updates from this blog, Everything is a spoon, Flickr, Twitter and my Google Reader shared items.

I set up the tumblelog using Tumblr and so far the experience has been pretty good. It was super easy get started and adding a custom domain name was a cinch (the aforementioned headaches were caused by my domain registrar, not Tumblr). I do have a couple complaints though. One, it didn’t pick up my last blog post. Grrr. And two, it restricts users to a maximum of five feeds. There is a link to contact Support and request an increase, but so far my requests have gone unanswered. I just need to add my del.icio.us links and then the aggregation of my entire online life will be complete. With the exception of Facebook. That’s where I draw the line between public and (semi) private.

What’s interesting is that, after almost three years of blogging, this was the very first time I felt any apprehension with regard to privacy. I mean, aggregating all of my activity under my own full name – am I making it too easy for the stalkers? But then I figured, what the hell? Stalkers are resourceful and I’m not giving them anything they couldn’t already find on their own.

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