dot dot romkey

Right now I have links to a few social sites that I use on the sidebar. These sites include Twitter, delicious.com, Google Reader (selected articles that I thought were interesting enough to share), and last.fm (music I’ve been listening to recently). At some point I’ll get UVFood and Flickr in there, too.

I like the idea of presenting my activity on these sites in the sidebar. It gives you an idea of what I’m up to, and helps make this blog a hub for my activity. At first I used various Wordpress plugins that were tailored to the particular sites. There were two problems with doing that. First, their formatting was all over the place. They used different heading tags, made assumptions about formatting, embedded their own formatting. They looked like a mess when taken together. The second problem was that they all loaded their info in real time, which meant it could take minutes to load a dot-dot-romkey page. No good at all.

(more…)