Our Virtual Presence

Ah, the digital world and what it brings - access to information at our fingertips, the ability to name the big green bug that appears on our front door every morning.....what a gift! I think one of the unintended consequences is our lives (professional or personal) become harder to manage....scattered across myriads of websites, each with a different "strong" password (you're being safe, aren't you?), each accomplishing different pieces of who we are. I go to my church website to check on activities, then scoot (virtually, of course) to my favorite quilting website to drool over fabrics before ending the evening with mundane email to catch up on (and not just one personal email account, either!). Is there one place i can use as my "home base" in which all of my url's are collected, my pictures saved, my link to my del.icio.us account is readily available so that my bookmark bar isn't scrolling off the page?

As this manifests in the ALD world, we, too, have multiple presences - the myspace that's just getting started, this blog (!), the RA wiki ~~~ are there others out there? How will we know what is the best tool, what each does, why you go where for what?

Is life getting more complicated or is it just relational because i'm getting older everything is more complicated? How do you manage information and your web world? Let's start a best practices area here!