{"id":1149,"date":"2009-03-08T23:02:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T06:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2009-03-08T23:02:39","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T06:02:39","slug":"what-s-my-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2009\/03\/08\/what-s-my-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s my domain?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m very fortunate. Since March\/ April 2003 I’ve been able to blog for free, hosted by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society<\/a>. It’s an option open to anyone with a Harvard email address<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While we all started with Radio Userland<\/a>, Berkman switched everyone over to WordPress<\/a> couple of years ago. But presumably because it’s a group-hosted gig, we don’t have the same kind of affordances that free-range WordPress users enjoy (I have a hard time getting hold of a human resource person who can explain the options from Berkman’s end of things – you can see that the How-to guides<\/a> on Berkman’s website all say “coming soon,” which is what they’ve said for years <sigh>).<\/p>\n

Individual (and also free) WordPress accounts allow users to upload videos and to add widgets and things, none of which I can do on my Berkman-hosted blog. I won’t even let myself dream of all the neat things paying \/hosted WordPress account holders can do.<\/p>\n

For a year or more I’ve felt I have a dilemma. I’m not a famous blogger or anything, but I feel like I have some investment in my “blogs.law.harvard.edu” brand. At the same time, I feel like I should be my own brand, and the “blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog” handle keeps me from putting what I want into my domain.<\/p>\n

If I now, at this late date, abandon my “blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog” handle, however, I risk losing whatever equity I built up over six solid years of non-stop blogging. (Ok, there was a month here, or two weeks there, that I temporarily disappeared – but the emphasis is on “temporarily.”)<\/p>\n

If I continue with the “\/yulelog” handle, my personal brand plays second fiddle.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, new widgets and add-ons come along, which I’d love to implement …but can’t. Case in point? The Disqus<\/a> commenting system – you can see my profile page here<\/a>. (Note that Victoria’s own Black Press<\/a> had added Disqus<\/a> to its Business Examiner<\/a> and its Victoria News<\/a> sites, but not – yet? – to Monday Magazine<\/a>, which Black Press<\/a> also owns.)<\/p>\n

Another example: a number of years ago I nuked my Flickr account, but even back then I was annoyed that I couldn’t put a Flickr badge on my blog. Things haven’t improved insofar as I can’t put a Twitter<\/a> updater on my blog, either. And so on.<\/p>\n

What should I do? Abandon the “blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog” brand (such as it is) and venture out on my own? Forget about it? Or do both (set up my own site, but double post with some sort of redirect work-around – and to what end?)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m very fortunate. Since March\/ April 2003 I’ve been able to blog for free, hosted by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. It’s an option open to anyone with a Harvard email address. While we all started with Radio Userland, Berkman switched everyone over to WordPress couple of years ago. But presumably because it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1325,1903],"tags":[32,4052,4933],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housekeeping","category-writing","tag-blogging","tag-disqus","tag-domain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}