I launched this blog simultaneously with about 4 others. This approach let me grow to like a website while getting the feel for a few. Unfortunately, this site failed my little experiment and has no visitors. It’s a shame because it has the best layout.

Not dying, though, but taking a back seat. I enjoy posting logos here and intend to do more of that.

I may use robots.txt to block robots from accessing this and another blog so I can study the effects of a remergence some day.

Instead of spamming people like me with a “Experience the new AOL.com” tour page, AOL should just come out and say “We’re Google, but our homepage is Yahoo!“.

There cannot be a new AOL.com if it is still a Yahoo.com copy.

I don’t use LinkedIn often, but this email I just got is interesting. By providing an easy address book import, this LinkedIn email campaign expands their user network via a Google piggyback.

corey,

Now you can check your Gmail contacts and see who is already on LinkedIn.

We think you’ll be surprised - in fact, 85% of people who try this tool find friends and coworkers that are already on LinkedIn.

Check your Gmail account. -The LinkedIn Team

Presidential candidate Ron Paul just sent me an email telling of an invitation Google has offered to visit the Googleplex.

July 9, 2007

A local TV station station just called, wanting to follow up on the Sunday ABC interview. Their stated reason: “Your campaign is really picking up steam!” Darn right, thanks to you and so many others. Of course, some in the media want to see this campaign lose steam. But they’re not going to get their way.I know that every day: for example, whenever I attend one of our big, enthusiastic meetup groups.As I look around, I always think: how lucky I am to be part of such a movement. And how many young people care deeply about our ideas.A friend of mine used to wonder what would become of our movement when all the older members of it passed on. Now, he says, there is no doubt that we are sowing the seeds of an even more vibrant and principled freedom movement. The future can be bright indeed.

At a rally in Nevada the other day, I asked a husband and wife how they had gotten interested in this campaign. “Though our 13-year-old son,” they told me.

Remember the complaints that kids were addicted to TV and video games, and ignored the world around them? There are plenty who don’t fit that bill. And the tool in their hands and ours is the internet. With it, we can circumvent the biased media.

Later this week I go to Google—perhaps the nerve center of the internet—at the company’s invitation, to talk to all their employees. Brilliant young techies are part of our constituency, and I am looking forward to that visit. There are two rallies too.

Won’t you help keep our internet campaign going and growing? Please aid me in traveling to our rallies, and in getting the word out in every way possible. Make your most generous donation https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/.

This campaign is picking up steam. But the engine needs fuel. Please join me https://www.ronpaul2008.com/join/ in this great endeavor for America’s future.

Sincerely,

Ron

 

This message is available on Ron Paul’s official website for those of you who are not subscribers.

I started a website on wordpress.com a few months after I started this one. It has been a neat experience trying both types of the software. If you go to wordpress.com you can start a new website in under a minute. It’s a fantastic feeling, but I’ve grown to like my new site. The website you are reading right is a wordpress.org  blog, meaning I installed the wordpress software on my own web space instead of letting wordpress.com host it.

Wordpress.com VS Wordpress.org

It comes down to the features. While your blog is hosted on WP.com, you are limited in a number of ways. No code edits to your theme HTML or CSS can be made, which is the most restrictive feature. There is a CSS upgrade option, but why only take half control? I enjoy using of a number of plugins that I have installed on this blog which are also not available on WP.com, including the “Related posts” section on my sidebar. The more articles I wrote, the more I wanted to expand and customize my new website.

Luckily, WP offers a feature called domain mapping that helps redirect site visitors for 12 month durations. I purchased this option for my old URL, automotivemarketing.wordpress.com. It now redirects to tacticaltechnique.com.

One small problem

This service is one digit from making me happy. While both URLs work and my site is moved and totally accessibly, the WP domain mapping redirection uses a HTTP 302 (temporary) redirect instead of a 301 (permanent). My move is permanent. There’s no problem as far as we humans are concerned, but a 301 redirect is a little bit better for search engines to digest. Oh well. My site is new and I don’t really have any good search engine rankings that will be lost.

I wrote about this on the other site as well, and if anyone is looking for instructions on how to do it, the support forum topic I started is exactly what you need.