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Why should I run my own site?

I’ve been doing some tinkering on my site this morning, and I’ve just come to the realisation that I am now sure why I run my own domain any more. The only reason I can think of is to keep some sort of online identity.

I haven’t bloggied (apart from this, of course) in months. I use twitter instead, as most of what I want to say can be summarised in 140 Chars.

I don’t use any of the photo galleries I set up as Facebook/Flickr/Picasa all work so much better

Lugradio shut down a year ago (although I still get a lot of traffic on this)

I did run a site for my Mother-in-Law’s dance school, and I have just found out that it doesn’t even work anymore!

I need to either resolve to do more on the site or get shut. My problem is my attention span. For example, I have decided to re-do the dance school site. I have also decided to do it in django. I strongly suspect that this will go out of the window, as I’m looking after Hannah on my own for the first time in the afternoon/evening and I reckon this will re-shape my priorites. Again.

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  1. Michael Douglas | June 27, 2009 at 2:17 pm | Permalink

    I know the feeling all too well.

    I mainly use twitter, as it is so useful. I’ve stopped regularly updating my blog, and my main site only contains static content anyway. :/

  2. MJ Ray | June 28, 2009 at 12:09 pm | Permalink

    Use django-blocks and its feed aggregator to pull in dynamic content from the sites you do update often, like twitter (seems a shame you’re not on floss.pro or similar, though). It’s what I’ll probably do for 90% of my personal site next update – there’s just never enough time to update it. Cobbler’s child syndrome – running around barefoot.

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