Update: This is now
MYBrainBlog(.com)
BrainBlog is changing its address!
I’ve been blogging a long time.
The official archives go back to 2002, but at least a year of earlier files have been lost in the ether(net) as I’ve updated over the years.
When I started, Blogger was the best thing going. Firstly, it was one of the ONLY things going — and beyond that, it’s easy to use and appeal to my cheap-bastard side — it was free. The fact that it was housed on their domain (http://dontheideaguy.blogspot.com/) didn’t make a difference to me at the time. My primary domain (https://www.dontheideaguy.com/) was where most people entered my website — the blog was secondary.
But a funny thing happened.
As more people started linking to ME — they weren’t linking through my primary domain, they were linking through my BLOG. As I watched traffic stats grow, I found more and more people were finding me through my blog because the blog was updated more frequently that my “official” website.
By the time I realized what happened, more people knew (and linked) me through my blog than my website and I now had a ‘yucky’ domain name (dontheideaguy.blogspot.com). Ewww.
The longer I keep it, the harder it will be to change. The more people that link me, the harder it will be to reach them and ask them to update to a new address. If I ever decide to change blogging software (Typepad, Moveable Type, WordPress, Radio Userland, etc.) my address will change anyway — and it would be a rush to switch links overnight. So I’m starting early.
The new official new address for the BrainBlog is now www.MyBrainBlog.com — I own it, and now I can point it to whichever blogging software I decide to use in the future. It’s a permanent address that I own and control.
Learn from my mistake — always start with your own domain. Find one you like and hold onto it. No matter which webhost you use, email program, blogging site, etc. that you use — you can redirect your personal domain to your new address without having to alert the world to the change — it’s like having a permanent forwarding service — no matter where you’ve moved, your address and email can stay the same.
Please update your links to my new blog address —
www.MyBrainBlog.com
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