Saturday, December 10, 2011

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.