State of the Blog - Guest-Posting
I wanted to point out for the handful (one or two) readers of this blog who do not read Professor Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law Blog, that I will be guest-posting at his excellent blog. My first post is on a recent case from the Western District of Washington that deals with copyright and the first sale doctrine . . . when is a software a license and when is it a sale? ("Vernor v. Autodesk - Does the Right to Possession Distinguish Between Sales and Licenses"). I was very excited to chat with Professor Goldman about guest-blogging and contributing since his blog has been a must read for many years now. We've left things open and we'll see where it goes. Either way, I'm excited about it.
So what does that mean for this blog? Good question. I don't think I'm quite ready to abandon it totally, but I may put some of my personal or quick posts here and some more substantive posts over there? We'll see. This blog's focus has shifted slightly over the years. As spam litigation becomes much less important, I've focused a bit more broadly on other topics in the space, such as privacy, informational security, and legal issues around social networks. I've also considered changing the domain name/name for the blog. I'm partial to "Spam Notes," but I've received plenty of feedback that if you have "spam" in the domain name or incorporated into the name of your blog, this puts you a few clicks behind the starting line. I've also thought about a re-design as far as look and feel. Moving to WordPress is probably the best place to start as far as a re-design, but it's easier said than done to port three years worth of entries to WordPress. I'm guessing it would be easy for someone who knew what they were doing. Just not so easy for me. (Before you say "it should be easy to find someone who will do it for a few hundred bucks," let me stop you and say that I've tried to find that person. Also easier said than done.)
I've been somewhat bogged down at work, which is not entirely a bad thing. (Complaining about how busy you are is gauche, particularly for lawyers, but "it is what it is." How's that for tackling two pet peeves in one sentence?) This has somewhat sapped my blogging energy in the past couple of weeks. But the blogging energy will return with a vengeance, it always does. Also, as much as I hate to admit it, Twitter has been taking up some of the energy that I used to spend blogging. It's a useful medium to get information and chat with others, but boy is it easy to get into a compulsive cycle of "checking out what's going on on Twitter." All those articles you read about information overload, attention spans, etc. They're true!
So what does that mean for this blog? Good question. I don't think I'm quite ready to abandon it totally, but I may put some of my personal or quick posts here and some more substantive posts over there? We'll see. This blog's focus has shifted slightly over the years. As spam litigation becomes much less important, I've focused a bit more broadly on other topics in the space, such as privacy, informational security, and legal issues around social networks. I've also considered changing the domain name/name for the blog. I'm partial to "Spam Notes," but I've received plenty of feedback that if you have "spam" in the domain name or incorporated into the name of your blog, this puts you a few clicks behind the starting line. I've also thought about a re-design as far as look and feel. Moving to WordPress is probably the best place to start as far as a re-design, but it's easier said than done to port three years worth of entries to WordPress. I'm guessing it would be easy for someone who knew what they were doing. Just not so easy for me. (Before you say "it should be easy to find someone who will do it for a few hundred bucks," let me stop you and say that I've tried to find that person. Also easier said than done.)
I've been somewhat bogged down at work, which is not entirely a bad thing. (Complaining about how busy you are is gauche, particularly for lawyers, but "it is what it is." How's that for tackling two pet peeves in one sentence?) This has somewhat sapped my blogging energy in the past couple of weeks. But the blogging energy will return with a vengeance, it always does. Also, as much as I hate to admit it, Twitter has been taking up some of the energy that I used to spend blogging. It's a useful medium to get information and chat with others, but boy is it easy to get into a compulsive cycle of "checking out what's going on on Twitter." All those articles you read about information overload, attention spans, etc. They're true!
Have a look at http://help.godaddy.com/article/5046
I'll bet you can do it yourself and save the few hundred dollars.
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Thanks Mickey. I ran through the GoDaddy process but they can only (easily) export a certain number of entries. I couldn't figure out how to export all of the entries...and that's when I stopped :-)
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Thanks for letting us know what is going on. Congrats on the emerging role on the Technology & Marketing Law Blog; to the extent you are going there, I will be reading it! And however you re-format or update your own blog, I'd like to put two cents in for Disqus as a system for comments.
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William,
Thanks for the comment. Thanks also for the input on commenting systems and encouraging use of Disqus. Much appreciated!
Venkat
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