So, control & options is one of those things that is important to building and maintaining a website.
You can go and use all the crazy services like flickr, facebook, linkedin, twitter, talkshoe, etc … but what happens when you want to leave?
Could be the site shuts down, or something better comes along. One example of this is my personal blogging. I use to use a vox.com account fro two reasons:
- privacy features
- ease of use
Yet I always had in the back of my mind that I would probably end up with my own site one day … I still use the vox.com account from time to time – because it saves me time & not all posts should or must be public.
URL Control
Today I found a potential solution for one issue I have had for years In podcasting, or just suggesting stuff with websites, one issue is when you make a link and link to the same thing over and over … what happens if you don’t whant that link known (or to go to the same place) forever?
Like ArtistInsider – first used a file hosing service titled libsyn , then talkshow, and we are not sure what we will do in the future.
When we moved from libsyn to talkshoe, it was a pain to not only move over 100 or so files, but also to go through and update the posts/links for the files. What if we could do it all in pne place?
This is a wordpress plugin that allows you to basically do the same thing that tinyurl.com or tr.im (my fav right now) but on your own site & you can change the link a link goes to later (unlike the other systems)
so as a test I threw in two links to see how they would work:
https://www.jonathannation.com/AIQA-GRTwitter.mp3 – goes to an Artist Insider episode
[audio:https://www.jonathannation.com/AIQA-GRTwitter.mp3]https://www.jonathannation.com/twitter – goes to my twitter page
This does not solve everything, but it is a start and it with some other techniques might make it where everything works out the way I want it to.
Now to go find a good short domain name / URL to register – so I control it.
