Beyond the Electronic Portfolio: A Lifetime Personal Web Space: "The electronic portfolio (e-portfolio) is higher education’s new “got to have it” tool—the show-and-tell platform of the millennium...Imagine a magnificently equipped (with software, communication, search, and multimedia tools), beehive-configured Web space that possesses sufficient organizational plasticity to accommodate the user’s developmental capacities and needs across a lifetime."
Comment: This article suggests that we can extend the concept of eportfolios to allow for a lifelong collection of learning and activities ("multiple cells with flexible entrance points"). The concept is an aggregation of what most bloggers are already doing with various tools: creating a knowledge trail for managing personal knowledge and a history of thought and growth.