Where to keep information?

Lately I've been struggling a lot of where to store information, and what information goes where. I'm all convinced that self-hosted solutions are gonna disappear again, as the "cloud" services is getting better each month. There's just not gonna be any point of hosting information yourself when the cloud services will have all the space, features and backup plans needed. During 2009 I'm sure we all stop collecting MP3 files and solely use services like Spotify, the same will most probably happen for TV shows and possible also movies.

That being said, I need to sort out the information I post myself.

First off: what services to pick? For photos, this is basically a choice between Flickr, Picasa and Apple Mobile Me. The later is something I pay for, and it works quite good, but since the storage space is limited and I don't know if I will pay for MobileMe forever, it's not an option. Picasa has some nice features, but the community and popularity favors Flickr so that is my choice. I will post all photos, screenshots and work related images on Flickr.

I will use Twitter for microblogging. There are some cool swedish ones, Bloggy, Yo, and then there's Jaiku, but Twitter is where most people are and that's where I'm gonna be too. This is not an easy choice as the swedish microblogging community is quite big, but one service must be enough.

For bookmarking I will go with Delicious. I used to use MobileMe for this, but they removed the web access to bookmarks. There are a lot of great synching services around, but I'd like the choice of accessing my bookmarks without leaving traces on the computers I sometimes use.

Blogging is ... troublesome. I kind of want to have a personal blog, but I don't quite want it mixed up with the professional side of me. Not that I have much time for blogging, but it's nice to have a place where I can formulate my thoughts on different subjects and not having to explain it over and over again to people. Here's also the biggest language problem. A professional blog would of course be in english, as my contacts and work is international, but a personal blog would have more readers interested if it was in swedish. Can't say this is really sorted out yet, as the solution seems to be three or four different blogs, which of course is insane. Anyway, I tend to pend between choosing Wordpress or Blogger but think I'll go for Blogger. They both suck, but other services sucks even more. Blogger wins because I don't have to pay to customize the blog if I want to.

Second: aggregation. Many services today allows you to cross post to other services. Update Twitter and automatically send the same text to Friendfeed, Facebook, Tumblr, and so on. That's all nice, but after following a few friends I realized I got their information feeded to me not only two times but in same cases on five different places. I already have too much information coming to me and seriously don't need more copies of the same stuff.

My solution is that I will only aggregate information on one place, and that's on my own homepage. That page will not contain any unique information but will act as a "master feed". Follow that page to get it all. If you're only interested in some parts, like my photos, work, blogs, tweets etc, then follow me on those particular services. This way, you will not get duplicates.

My third concern is language. English seems to be the natural choice to store information in, as the web is international, and most people I find interesting is not found in Sweden. The only problem here is that I will most likely only work in Sweden, with swedes, and swedes seem to be not so keen about blogging in english. So by writing in english I win international followers but lose some of the more important local swedish ones. What to do, what to do, I have no clue.