I've been using UNIX and Linux and Vi and Vim (and loads of other tools) for a VERY long time; nearly 3 decades (which is Eons, on the Internet clock!).  And I've been using the Internet the whole time as well.  I used WAIS and gopher and other similar tools until Mosaic arrived and changed everything.

So, as a result, I have more "blogs" and "websites" and "profiles" and "accounts" than I can even remember.  I tried once to put them all in one place:  http://bit.ly/reiber - but that backfired since it took SO long for the whole stack of iframes to load.  And, I kept forgetting to list new blogs and sites and profiles there.  Still, it was an interesting experiment.

I hosted a handful of technologies myself, with varying results.  Some of the ones I've liked, which are still around, include my Joomla site  and my TWiki site and my Front Door to the whole thing.

I like what posterous provides; I can email a post to them, and it gets sent out to LOTS of places.  I like that my twitters show up in my buzz.  And I like convergence, which is slowly happening, thanks to things like OpenID and open source and public-facing APIs and all that other good mojo.

So, what's the point of all of this?  Mainly that, (a) I'm happy there are sites like this one - Open Source Universe - that act as a gathering place for people, (b) I'm happy to contribute to it (check out the Vim group) , and (c) I'm happy to be able to help others to learn and do and accomplish wonderful things using this big bad internet.

'Till next time...
-pbr