This link post approves of the post in question.
This blog is 20 years old today. I thought I should mark the moment, even if posting is not as frequent as it used to be and social media has eaten into people's attention spans.
I've linked to similar thoughts before but it's always worth repeating. You own your words. Why feed twitter, facebook or some other behaviour farm with them? Your personal space on the net is your archive and your place to experiment.
Recent years haven't been kind to personal publishing online. Social media took over with its immediacy and mobile-friendly form. And, like many, I migrated to that world of short attention spans, updating my "status" with the odd link or comment while this site gathered digital dust in the background. But I've been feeling an increasing discomfort with the idea of creating content for these closed and often walled gardens…
Has French president Jacques Chirac really got a weblog? Nice effort, but something’s not quite right.
A whois on the domain also indicates the following:
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Last Updated On:07-Mar-2005 17:50:19 UTC
Expiration Date:28-Feb-2006 21:58:34 UTC
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Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
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Registrant ID:O-898865-GANDI
Registrant Name:Arnaud Demanche
Registrant Organization:Arnaud Demanche
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Registrant Country:FR
