They’re right, of course. Shelley, AKMA, John. All of them. I should be running this blog on a domain that I control. And it’s not that I don’t have any—I’ve got lawley.net and evilwoman.org. I’ve registered mamamusings.com and mamamusings.net. I’ve got my business domain, itcs.com (registered in the dark ages of the ‘net, before there was even a charge for it…though Network Solutions seems to have messed up the history on the account and doesn’t reflect that).
I’ve dragged my heels on this because of the exact issues that Shelley raises regarding weblog portability. As a neophyte blogger, I naively chose the default individual archive templates in MT, which use an entry number that’s not hard-coded to the content. If I export the entries here and import them elsewhere, those ID numbers will change, making redirection extremely difficult. When I switch servers, I’ll switch to name-based individual archive pages (like what Joi uses). But before I can get to that point, I have a couple of things to figure out.
Bottom line, I’m afraid that if I move, nobody will find me. Sure, I can leave lots of forwarding address markers here. But will that be enough? What will happen to my Technorati Cosmos, for example? To incoming blogrolling.com links? (Hmmm…now that Dave’s providing a way for people to claim their blogs on Technorati, ∑ la Blogshares, that may be centrally correctable. Jason, would there be any way to do something similar at blogrolling.com?)
But first things first…which domain to use? I’m not the one who has to remember it, of course, so I’m particularly interested in knowing what my readers would prefer. My top three choices for domains for this blog are lawley.net, mamamusings.net, and mamamusings.com. Then there’s the issue of subdomain, which complicates it further.
Some possibilities…
What do you think? One of those? Something else?
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