I have been battling the question “what shall my homepage be like” for many years now. I’ve started blogs, written home pages, gotten my own domain, started more blogs, merged different pages and blogs, gotten on Facebook, started tweeting… It’s basically been a big, hairy mess. And here is my problem:

I wanted to separate my personal life and my professional life online. As a consequence I started to blogs – one professional blog where I could post comments and articles about information security, digital forensics and other IT-related topics, and one personal blog where I would write about stuff that friends and family would be interested in. Like how my vacation was and how much I hate snow.

This worked out great for about two days, when I noticed I had another problem: Language! My primary language is Norwegian and living in Norway I mainly read Norwegian news papers. Which means I am most likely to want to comment on Norwegian events and news articles. But working with computer science, my main professional language is English. And let’s face it: There is a huge difference in audience volume when writing in English as opposed to Norwegian. So now I had to deal with that too.

The result was that I more or less gave up on the whole thing. My blogs were nothing but dead weight in cyberspace, and all I could be bothered with was a few micro-posts on Facebook and Twitter. Until today!

Thanks to inspiration from the Twig podcast, my friend Azathosk’s blog and a series of discussions I’ve had with friends, I have come to the realization that my online presence – my cyberpersona if you will – must be one! My professional and personal life is the same life, and if people just want to read half the stuff on my blog, well, then they just read half the stuff.

Therefor I have consolidated all my posts here at stigFromOslo.com and I have started to formulate in my head a project on exploring the wonderful world of Web 2.0, social media and cloud computing. I hope to bring to you a series of experiences and ideas on how these things can work together to make life more cyberpunk (in a cool way) and how social media and the cloud can work as an integrated tool for entertainment, news and practical life experience.

Stay tuned and please feel free to comment, ask questions and share your own experience and ideas. After all – even cyberspace is interactive!