So I finally succumbed to Blogger’s promptings and integrated this site with my Google Plus profile. It doesn’t appear to have changed anything on the front end, which is great. I guess this means I can delete the Google Plus link from the list of links for other places to find me, with this integrated.

There’s something to be said for a unified web presence, and people being able to track you across multiple media. It introduces people who may know you from one area – a comic or group blog, for example – to other things you’re good at, like prose writing or editing or whatever else you do.

I know I treat this very much as a hub site: every social networking site I’m on links here, even if I don’t link to all of them in my sidebar (because, really, if you’re coming here to find out about my editing rates, you don’t particularly need to find my OKCupid dating profile, do you?), and that works well for me. I get frustrated when I find authors who have an author site, and a Tumblr, and a Twitter, and no mention is made on any of them that the others even exist, or if mention is made it’s buried somewhere in the archive never to be seen again. So all of the projects I work on that are ready for public consumption are linked here for everyone’s convenience.

The biggest downside to the integration with the rest of Google’s services is a fairly new thing to the rest, too: the interface is now very white, and I don’t like the aesthetics of the navigation.

Biggest positive might be that I no longer have to update as many places with a new profile picture whenever I get a haircut.

Next week I’ll be talking about the Kobo Vox, as I get to play with one at my office Christmas party tomorrow.