Wayne Kessler: January 2010 Archives

Last Wednesday, I made a snide remark about the 15-minute fame of "Pants on the Ground" as an update on Facebook.  I make snide or silly remarks on Facebook all the time, no big deal.

At about the same time a reporter for the Patriot-News was given the assignment to write a story about Pants on the Ground.  She reached out to friends and acquaintances about the song and to whether kids were adopting the chant, and it just so happened that one of her friends is also one of mine.

He gave her my information.  She contacted me.  She asked a few questions for the story she was writing.  I answered them.

Saturday morning the story was in the front section of the Patriot.

I literally did nothing but come up with some half-clever comment on my Facebook account, and some less-clever-but-true responses to her questions, and now we're getting contacts from friends about the story.  Just goes to show the power of using Facebook at a useful moment, even if by accident.  

Each registrar has different procedures, but the basic premise is, if the domain registration isn't paid up, the domain will go back on the market, and if you still need it after it is expired for a short period of time, will likely cost you more than it should to retain.  Registrars will email you an invoice, but they can't find you if you've changed your email address or the person that registered the domain no longer works for you.  Organizations need to keep track of their domain renewal dates in house as well, just in case.

No, being 1 of 100,000 businesses to make Google's Favorite Places is not newsworthy. Being one of those businesses, I understand that.  Very surprising to me that any news publication would consider it newsworthy.  It is Google marketing.

I stopped a previous, 5 year blogging effort about politics and society over a year ago, on December 31, 2008 - however, the hosting still remained (although it appears to finally have disappeared into the netherworld now). Interesting to see the dropoff in traffic:


 
One thing I should mention about these diminishing traffic patterns - the domain was given to another blog to help their traffic, leaving my original blog with just the hosting address.  Still, there were links to that address out there as well, plus Google had picked it up, so some traffic remained, although I'm sure most of it was quite accidental.

Human error is ubiquitous:

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