What's home anymore?

I had to put my domain, groundglassproductions.com, down recently. It is dead. I simply chose not to renew the domain registration. I'm really not in buisiness anymore, although I still do videos. I continue to support Spencer Cable Access by doing Thyme In the Kitchen with Lee and Pam. I will even, gladly, accept payment for my services, should they be required, for a commercial shoot of some kind.

So, in thinking about a new web presence for what I do, I thought about the state of today's technology. What are other folks doing, now, with "home pages"? One can do something on Facebook. There is Goole+. I actually have a personal home page that my website provider gives me (rcdanek.us). I can several sites living beneath that. GGP is actually still there in a way: rcdanek.us/ggp/archives.html gets you to our archives page.

Also, there are sites that provide blog services. This site lives on Blogger and I have Wordpress. (In fact, I had GGP on Wordpress for a while.)

Wait, there's more! As I do videos (which is what GGP is all about), and those videos have to live somewhere, I have the same questions to ask about services which present videos. I mostly use Blip TV. Lately, I found that I can syndicate off of Blip TV onto other sites. So, now, the Blip TV content shows up as a Podcast on iTunes. Sweet. I signed up to feed into Facebook and I'm sure Google+ will show up at some point.

I don't know if there's a winning strategy, but I find that I have to dabble in several places. Let's see...

1. I have GGP under my rcdanek.us stuff.
2. I have GGP on Wordpress. (It's actually what I'm using as my "official" home page for now)
3. I have GGP on Facebook.
4. I have GGP on Google+.
5. I'm waiting for Twitter to open up with their pages (they've announced something).
6. Most of my video streams are on Blip TV
7. I have one video stream on Vimeo (I may have more later, you never know)
8. I have links to Blip TV and Vimeo on the TIK website

And each time I release a new video, and get it uploaded, I have to worry about updating all these "sites".

Hmmmm.

End of and adventure? ...Danek Photography is going away. This website was my "business" site for the most part. (Well, I think I had it as my personal photo site, but when I went pro a few years back, it became my business site, so there.) As a business site, it got me some visibility, mostly from folks trying to connect to my site to help them bolster their business. I don't know how many clients every came around because of it. On the other hand, when I did get a client, then that's where I sent them to look at their images.

Well, I stopped Danek Photography - the business - a few years ago. It just wasn't working out. When it came time to renew my domain name, I really didn't have justification. So, in May, it will cease as a registered domain name. So, anyone can take ownership for it. It won't be me. In its place, I have other sites for my photography and interests.

Ground Glass Productions will continue for a while. We still do cable access videos so it makes sense. I suppose if ever I restart a photo business, I could tie to to GGP, but then GGP isn't really a business either anymore. So, who knows.

Danek Photography had it's time...

And if you are looking for either Art's page or my alternate page, check out these:

• Art's Page (artdanek.com)
• Casey's Page (rcdanek.us/dp)
• Images by Casey (rcdanek.us/ibc)