I’ve been reading my friends’ blogs through Google Reader for a while now, so I don’t often actually go to their sites. I just visited Micah’s site today for the first time in a long time, and I was impressed. This site design is genius! And it really perfectly suits Micah’s eclectic-aggregated blogging style.
Well done, Micah. Well done.
really impressive! I wish this is something like a template so people can use it to their own site. i really need one!
January 31st, 2008 at 11:45 pmIt’s pretty much a personal, more detailed, customizable facebook profile. Which is pretty rad.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:00 amThis is cool…very cool. Great job, Micah. Hopefully nobody comes along and steals his idea and takes the credit….now if you don’t mind, I need to get back to rebuilding my site so that it looks just like sinosplice.com.
February 1st, 2008 at 2:26 amHah, well, at least he didn’t copy Myspace.
February 1st, 2008 at 7:26 amThe feed format is excellent. Looking like Facebook, not so much. But yeah, it’s a good way to pull different kinds of blogging and presence information together.
February 1st, 2008 at 10:19 amI dunnow - it’s great if I want to keep exact tabs on what he’s up to (personally, even my parents would lose interest keeping that close a track), but I liked the page better before - his articles are interesting and deserve to take precedence over a report on what he listened to on last.fm.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:27 pmOmg, no wonder John calls it Micahbook, lol. Awesome! (but one little question: Is this a blog or sole SNS? :P)
February 1st, 2008 at 7:51 pmThanks for the kind words, John :)
Regarding the Facebook look: my brother is one of the lead designers for Facebook so the look was sorta a jab at him. He got a kick out of it, and proceeded to point out some places where I was off by a pixel or two, hehe.
Regarding the concept, of course it was invented by Facebook (as far as I know) but it’s really catching on outside of the “walled garden” as well. LM Orchard did a DIY version pretty early on; there is a plugin for the new Movable Type Open Source that does the same thing; and there are now websites like FriendFeed and Escaloop where you simply submit your usernames, and they will build a feed for you.
Finally re: Jeffrey D’s comment, actually my own reaction to using the new site for a couple months is closest to yours. I’ll probably be going back to a layout more similar to the old one in the next month; I’m been getting lazy about writing because I find myself thinking “well, I listened to a song on Last.fm so I don’t have to blog tonight.”
February 1st, 2008 at 10:46 pm