The Identity Array

In his recent post, Brian Oberkirch describes some tendencies in presenting content on weblogs, with a couple of emerging layout elements.

I am especially interested in the way some bloggers present themselves in their "about me" page or paragraph, with an "identity array" - that is a row of icons linked to their personal profile on various web 2.0 sites and services.

Here is mine:

As you might notice, the first one is for this blog: after all, a blog is often regarded as a central point to which all the content converges (photos and videos and everything embedded in blog posts or in sidebar widgets). But a blog is a specialized service itself - or, as I've put it in the Id Web map, just one part (the textual one) of my networked identity - and it could make sense to de-emphasize the role of the blog as an identity aggregator, as specialized services for identity aggregation are gaining momentum.

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