And I'm going to share it. Implementing it, though...that's another story.
I’m launching another blog - this one for my hosting and development businesses. I get plenty of compliments on my writing, and I’ve been published in internet-industry magazines, so I know that not only will I have things to say, I’ll say them well.
My concern is that no one will comment. In several forums, I was The Thread Killer: I’d make a post describing my opinion about a certain show, or situation, or character, or plot twist…and all activity in a formerly active thread would come to a screeching halt. One of my friends told me that this happened because I expressed myself so well, that they didn’t just want to post “Me too!!” While I appreciate knowing that I express myself well, blogs and forums are supposed to be somewhat interactive. After a certain amount of time spent shouting into the void, one begins to feel a bit like Typhoid Forum-poster.
Another worry is copy theft. It’s happened before, and given the nature of the internet, I’m sure it will happen again. Still, while I’ve got no objections of people quoting my work, or even writing their own articles based off of ideas they got while reading my writing, I don’t like the idea of some startup hoster taking my articles wholesale and representing them as their own…either for public consumption or for their clients’ benefit. I may start out dividing the content, and anything that could be useful to the reseller clients will go behind a membership-login.
If nothing else, though, this will put activity on a domain I own. I’ve been using subdomains for the servers in my network, but the main site hasn’t been actively used in quite a while…and so I get a lot of requests to purchase the domain. I don’t want to sell the domain, but I’m getting tired of wading through all the offers. (Hey - there’s an idea for a post. Why I won’t sell, or what price will make me consider selling. Would $500,000 shut most of the speculators up?)
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