Tidying Up My Web Presence
I decided at 5am today that I was going to clean up my web presence and instead of spreading myself across a series of domains, I would lump them all in to one using sub-domains.
As usual, once the decision was made, I couldn't wait around or it would have driven me a little bit mental.
I have moved my photo blog to photo.notnixon.com. I decided to go with the Tumblr platform because it has a built-in community interested in the arts. It should hopefully generate some two way traffic. Something which I have struggled to get on a self-hosted blog. The old photo blog at nixonbyname.com will stay in place for a few weeks while the slackers gradually move over. I will be starting again with the new blog. There is no option to move over posts or to preserve comments, but I think it will be worth it in the medium term.
My written blog will be at blog.notnixon.com. I'll be using Posterous for this as they have an excellent platform perfectly suited to my blogging style. My posts are pretty short form and usually 'in the moment'. It's more a Tumblelog place to put my longer Twitter posts than a place to build traffic. I don't need the community of Tumblr, but I do need greater control over post naming. It just seems right.
My is now at tumble.notnixon.com. It's just some cool stuff I find round the net, and it's the reason Tumblr was invented so why go anywhere else.
I'll have to create a new landing page at notnixon.com, and longer term, I'd like to have some sort of funky navigation between all of the sub-domains, but for right now I'm happy with the new system and building up a new audience.
I'd appreciate if you update your shortcuts, your RSS subscriptions and your links to the new sites. I can't rebuild without your help.
