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A few years ago, I set myself a target for this blog. In a few days, that will be achieved. I can’t tell you what the target was, but the experience has been rewarding - personally, intellectually as well as financially. And I promised a while back that when I reached that target - I’d move to the next phase of this digital life:

www.jpmartin.com will follow a simple, clear, easy minimalist design, with the following sections:

ABOUT: only about + detailed resume + contact
ARCHIVES: only best free articles (pdfs)
ACTION: premium signup / del.icio.us / flickr / twitter / links to other sites: AVCION, MariasMenu, Christica, DrPaulose
/ PREMIUM: investment recommendations for PREMIUM subscribers
/ HELP: download pdf, subscription, rss delicious, rss flickr, twitter, whitelist, etc.

That’s it! Made Life Simpler. Following the Rule of Three - In/Do/Out - Just/Three/Clicks - 1/2/3 - A/B/C - Make/Life/Simpler.

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Why all this restructuring? Make Life Simpler. Since I came online in 1999 through xoom.com (which hosted my first site and a self inflated hit counter) - things have CHANGED. The Internet has evolved, gone through a boom, a bust and finally evolution - now we’re maturing over Web2.0 - what’s next?

So where do I stand on all this, well, I’m not just outsourcing parts of my life - I’m outsourcing a lot of data, knowledge, information, bits and bytes. I once had an idea managing my digital life on my own site, but that wasn’t so practical. As with offline, online crashes do happen - but those are in the business of providing a service of being online have the responsibility of keeping backups.

Today, I even pay for some services besides my domain - Webhosting, Flickr, YahooMail Plus, Amazon S3. However, somethings are still free and great - Google (Search, Gmail, Calender, Reader, Docs), Del.icio.us, Firefox (all add on/extension providers) and of course WordPress.

JPM on May 9th, 2008
So here are the changes and logic behind them:

About and Contact Form on the same page - better communication takes place when you know or understand who you’re talking. One hyper link less, you can click on the about/contact link to get in touch with me. When you don’t find any contact stuff - the first reaction for people is to check out the about section. I intend to put up my latest information about me and keep that up-to-date. People who google my name should be able to find out the ‘About’ section, see my activities and check out all important links that re-inforce my brand.

Archive section will contain some of the best and free articles voted by readers - all in pdf format, i.e. easy for download and emailing around. This means a central location for all articles - all I need to do is upload rather than worry about formatting, search engine friendliness etc.

Action section is where the reader should finally go. However, I’ve blended action points into the home page:

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Amazon: Couldn’t leave this out - I personally think Amazon is revolutionizing the way we buy online.

Delicious: Social bookmarking. Go to delicious to see all bookmarks socialized - delicious is more like a mini blog to me, except without the conversation part. Nowadays, because of the huge information overload and also the lack of initiative to post original content - many just push links from their delicious bookmarks onto their blog. Why not just lead your friends/readers to your latest bookmarks instead? (Well, the secret here is that many lose out on advertising on their site, by sending their readers to delicious). Delicious also replaces my blogroll, instead of hosting it on the site directly (there are exceptions where I give links).

Flickr: Social photography. Go to flickr to see and comment on some of my shared photos.

Twitter: a form of textual broadcasting - people can follow you on twitter to know what you’re thinking, linking, finicking on. Short and Sweet - this has become a new wave of communication. I was initially skeptical about it - no longer.

JPM on May 9th, 2008