Re: Blogger and Garden Blogs

**G* R* <g*@tiscali.co.uk>**

At 10:29 -0500 18/12/07, Doug Green wrote:
>As for having your blog on other than a self-hosted URL - to each his own.
>I simply prefer to put my energies into building my own brand rather than
>that of Blogger or Typepad.  But your objectives and reasons for writing may
>differ.

As someone mentioned earlier... register your own domain (e.g. 
TransatlanticPlantsman.com) and point it at the front page of the 
blog - hosted by TypePad, Blogger or whoever... You retain control of 
your "brand" but have access to sophisticated technology and expert 
support.

Graham

>On 12/18/07 9:24 AM, "Kathy Purdy" <kopurdy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  In the comments of Doug's blog
>>  post that he referenced above, someone refers to the same announcement from
>>  Blogger that you do. Doug doesn't sound like he approves of OpenID. I
>>  haven't made up my mind, but it does seem that having one registration for a
>>  whole bunch of sites, while convenient, brings up the same security risks as
>>  having one login for all your banking and credit card accounts. If that's
>>  considered a bad idea, why is it a good idea for OpenID?
>>
>>  Kathy
>
>Kathy writes about blogging so much clearly than I do.  Let me respond to
>her note, "Doug doesn't sound like he approves of OpenID."
>
>Doug is probably a curmudgeon.  He doesn't like centralized repositories of
>data that are collected to "help" him.  He understand that banks,
>governments, search engines, and companies he deals with have already lost
>or shared his data somewhere/somehow over the Internet and has been given
>new credit cards, alerts on his records etc. as have millions of other North
>Americans (ever shop at Winners or their associated companies?)  He
>understands there's no privacy on the Net anymore particularly now that he
>owns and operates 9 websites and makes his living as an Internet publisher.
>He probably even contributes to this data drift in some way yet unknown. ;-)
>
>I watched a TED video on this subject and remain unconvinced that I want it
>but firmly aware that my individual feelings have absolutely no impact on
>the situation. So my advice to me is "get over it". :-)
>
>As I said - "curmudgeon".
>
>As for having your blog on other than a self-hosted URL - to each his own.
>I simply prefer to put my energies into building my own brand rather than
>that of Blogger or Typepad.  But your objectives and reasons for writing may
>differ.
>
>>From somewhere out on a foggy Lake Ontario
>
>Doug
>--
>Doug Green
>Ist in Online Gardening Publishing
>Homesite http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com
>Blog http://blog.douggreensgarden.com
>
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