I read a great blog post on this awhile back - http://tinyurl.com/5sqhh3 In a nutshell become your own information hub. Use your person website as a catch all to post everything that is going on in your online life. I made this switch a couple of months ago and it seems to be working well for me. - Jamie McQuay

I have 2 blogs. My personal blog is posted to only rarely and usually it's limited viewing anyway. On the other hand Twitter takes care of a lot of things that I might say on a personal blog ... Now, to some extents it's semantics. bbgm is a *very* personal blog. It just happens to be about techie stuff. - Deepak Singh

I guess I already sort of have a hub already but it's been mostly abandoned lately since blogging and FF have been so much more convenient. I am thinking of migrating to a Wordpress blog, though, so that may be a good solution. If the life scientists crowd doesn't care about my dumpling recipes or the last tournament I played in, they can just ignore them. I'm hoping that categorizing and tagging things well will help to mitigate audience annoyance, should there be any... - Shirley Wu

Wordpress is great for tagging/categorising. Multiple blogs is way too much work for me (plus, I'm not *that* interested in more personal/social blogging, nor would I assume anyone would want to read it). I tend to post more whimsical observations to twitter, facebook or tumblr. So long as your main portal is largely on-topic, I think people will forgive the occasional diversion; and as you say, tags/categories let them ignore it if they choose. - Neil Saunders

What would you post to your "work minus science" blog? I think it's better to keep things separated, if only for the sake of subscribers. People might be interested in what I have to say about bioinformatics, but not so much that my second son just learned to say "Papa". I think most people won't want to bother with subscribing to the appropriate tag(s) on your blog. - Michael Kuhn

I pretty much have two of everything - two blogs, two friendfeeds, two deliciouses, etc. Otherwise: worlds colliding. - Richard Akerman

I'd be interested in dumpling recipes :) But I'm with Neil - far too much work to keep things separate but then I don't really put anything that is _really_ personal online. - Cameron Neylon

I have one blog for chemistry research and one for elearning - I just duplicate posts when appropriate. That seems to work for me. - Jean-Claude Bradley

My $0.02: I don't blog much "personal" stuff, most of what I do online is about my obsession with Open Science. I do have a photoblog which feeds into a sidebar on my main blog, but otherwise I figure anyone reading me will put up with/happily ignore the occasional political outburst or personal rant. Seems there are as many ways of dealing with this question as there are bloggers... - Bill Hooker

Keeping a hard line between social and work stuff is overrated. Or overworried. First, as Cameron said, don't put any really private stuff up anyway. And as Bill said, the cognitive load of ignoring a post that you're really not interested in is low. Just hit 'n' in reader. As long as there's enough I am interested in, it's ok. Besides, dumplings are yummy. - NatBlair

I say throw it all in to one... more fun that way for all of us readers :) I hear you, though... I've mostly just not blogged personal things because I didn't want to cross contaminate a "work blog" with kiddo stories. But maybe life is too short to take it that seriously. Bring on the recipes, I'd enjoy them! - Heather Piwowar

I used to have three blogs - one on politics, one on science, one on education, and it was hard to manage. When I joined Seed scienceblogs, I fused the three into one and never regretted it - this way my one blog attracts a diverse audience: people who want to see my travel pictures also see science stories, people who come to read about Open Access, also get to see my slam of McCain, etc. - Bora Zivkovic

Thanks for the feedback! I definitely want to migrate to wordpress anyway (the commenting interface on Blogger leaves much to be desired), and since it gives you the option of categorizing your posts I think I will be integrating two of my blogs into one. Is there a good webizen way to do the switch, or is a final post on the old one saying "go to the new one, update your bookmarks/feeds" sufficient? - Shirley Wu