I've known about YouTube since its very early days. As a software guy and Internet developer, when I see something like YouTube launch, my hopes for worldwide sharing, free knowledge and new kinds of friendships and communication soar. I had visions of watching videos on my laptop instead of wasting my time with network TV and spot breaks that were approaching 50% of air time. I was anticipating great things from this new, free video sharing resource called YouTube.

The downside to the many easy, instant and cool blogging platforms on the Internet is that it is really easy for Internet-active folks to suddenly discover they have started a few too many blogs, joined a few too many social networks, and have created too many points of presence to keep up well.

I have a one-page chart that anyone can make that has helped me manage two things: keeping focus and awareness on my important blogs, and easily channeling blog post ideas to the right blog.