Writing Online
on my (ab)use of Radio Userland
Friday, July 11, 2003The You RI
Rick Klau notes that John Robb site at UserLand left immediately after John himself did. There is an object lesson in this:
Final lesson from this situation: never, ever blog at a domain that’s not owned by you. Don’t blog on your employer’s site, don’t blog on your blogging application’s site — make sure your blog lives (and stays!) on your own domain.
The things of this world are short-lived, die and rot. But be prudent and plan to take your stuff with you when you go. Technically that means use an e-mail address where both sides of the @ are yours. When you use someone else's site, whether pages.prodigy.net or radio.weblogs.com, you're renting. Eventually, you'll want to move out of your parents' house and stake a claim of your own.
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