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• I set up small wikis all the time with my friends to rapidly document the role-playing games we play.

• I use a personal webpage as a creative outlet and business venture, selling shirts and stickers with my unique logo.
  • The layout was made mostly with the stock formatting program provided by my host, but I make changes to the html for personalization.
  • I have integrated paypal in order to receive quick and easy payment for orders, and it's been reliable for me.

• Personal pages are the way to go, because you can control what is on it and how people perceive you, so this can help in getting jobs, projects, etc.

• I use a personal webpage to write a blog. I write my ideas down, and if anyone cares, they write comments. I also set up a picture gallery on a seperate page so people can view pictures I take and others can upload their pictures.

• There is also NO ADVERTISING on personal pages!

• I have a blog, which I mainly use like a mailing list to keep my friends and family up-to-date on what's going on in my life. I also have a personal website about my hobbies, which I share with other practioners of the hobby.

• I have a blog that I intend to use to wax poetic about all the things on my mind. Sometimes I post something of substance and have created a small following because of it. But most of the time I just post junk that doesn't matter to anyone but me. I use it as a journal of random thoughts, and to keep myself writing. I mostly use it because without it I won't bother to develop actual content or become a better writer. I intend to have a solid website within a year. I enjoy the concept of Web 2.0. information is power. Let's spread it.

*peronsal webpages are stupid. i hate them. i hate all of them except for possibly ramit's- which is not so much a personal webpage but an actual webpage with actual content about something other than his personal life. and the only blogs i read are celebrity blogs. ooh but bittershirts is so good...

*I used to think they were for total geeks. Now, everyone from supermodels and athletes to the bum on the corner has one. They're often helpful in learning about a person in advance of meeting him or her, or getting email addresses. Of course, blogs are a separate phenomenon, and I love them - the ones I read, anyway. Blogging is also a good way to force myself to write coherent and polished pieces - not that I have anytime recently.

*I use several personal pages, occasionally interlinking them, interconnecting profiles from different large sites together. Photos might go on Flickr or my own webhost, art on my own host, linked into my blog, and final versions put in my deviantart gallery and posted to art forums. Eventually another seperate personal presence online will be a front end portfolio for getting hired and publishing articles without all the updates on day to day life that would be interspersed on a blog.

• I use it to keep people abreast of where I am and what I am up to. I like reading my friends blogs because I enjoy knowing what they are up to without having to call and have them tell me the same story they already told a dozen other people. My travel calendar, playlist and other details are on there as well should some stranger stumble onto my site.

*I use my site to post photos that I like. Sometimes people comment. Mostly, they don't. That's fine since I made the site for me to show people if they ever ask what I've been up to. It's more or less a way for me to take that boring photo album all over the place and keep you "entertained" for 30 minutes or so.