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Blog Names
I'm curious as to how everyone picked out their blog names. If your domain name is different from your blog name, how did you come up with both? Do you have your own domain?
I keep obtaining domain names and then letting them go because I just get tired of them. I am in the process of picking out a new one. hahaha It's actually not for a blog, but I figure a name is a name is a name. I always give them a lot of thought, so I just wanted to know how much thought (and what kind of thought) everyone else put into theirs.
I keep obtaining domain names and then letting them go because I just get tired of them. I am in the process of picking out a new one. hahaha It's actually not for a blog, but I figure a name is a name is a name. I always give them a lot of thought, so I just wanted to know how much thought (and what kind of thought) everyone else put into theirs.
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Permalink Reply by Jen on -
I chose "One Wandering" because not only do I love to travel, but my brain is constantly on the move! I needed a place to archive these physical and mental steps. I haven't yet purchased the domain (still working off of wordpress), but now that I know I'm going to keep writing I think I might have to look into it!
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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth Moorehead-Murphy on -
I don't know, heh. It just had a nice ring to it... http://whatlizsaid.com. I think it sprang from a time a few years ago when there was a lot of drama and rumors, and "What Liz said..." was always up for debate.
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Permalink Reply by DShan on -
my site probably has the most literal name in the blogsphere. after having a 'moniker' on the first blog i maintained for 4 years; psychoticnormalcy; i basically didn't want to lose my motivation to blog again. the psynorm thing seemed like an act...i wanted something more intimate, personal.
so far the pseudo-anon personal format's been fun and interesting and rewarding, and i'm left with the notion that anyone who's feeling stressed about their blog or their audience should start over, from scratch. it makes you feel like you have control over the exercise entirely.
d-blogged
as to domains...i own about ten. anytime an idea comes up, i go buy the domain. i'm weird like that.
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Permalink Reply by nicopolitan on -
i do that, too. i currently host 15 sites and i'm getting ready to manage 5 more.
hey, if you had the idea first, a domain is a good way to plant the flag and claim it in the name of whatever, right?
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Permalink Reply by Um...Yum! on -
Dude, you never know about those domain names. They could be a hot commodity since so many people are trying to snatch them up. I remember watching some news story back in the 90's (I was about to say I'm date-ing myself but then realized where I was posting haha) about how people would purchase domains for cheap just to sell them for more money. These were domain names they figured people would want like somecelebritynamehere.com.
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Permalink Reply by Laura on -
Before I decided to join the blogging world, I had a conversation with a friend about how geeky, non-mainstream things/people are becoming more & more popular. After a very in-depth analysis of the situation, we started calling this trend 'Quirk Culture.' Thus, when I started my blog wanting to explore Quirk Culture...'Quirkology' just seemed like the most appropriate name.
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Permalink Reply by Clarity Sage on
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That is such a fun name!
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Permalink Reply by The Renaissance Man on
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Ruminations of the Renaissance Man was born from that least creative of artistic abilities, alliteration.
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Permalink Reply by the girl Riot on -
i've had way too many domain names; i've been doing websites since junior high, but i was hosted on a lot of friends' and net-friends' domains initially. my first domain was fallforever.com with teganandsara.net and ihearnoises.org -- i ran T&S's .net PR from 00-05. ihn.org was the download/media portion of the site. fallforever.com was my personal site, inspired by an unnamed song of theirs, a lyric: "i'm the type of girl, when you fall in love, you fall forever."
after that, i kinda fell out of love with fallforever.com -- the name didn't suit me anymore. i'm a huge jeanette winterson devotee, so the next domain i held for about 2 years was artandlies.org, which i still want to repurchase. i'm sad to have let it go. "there is no such thing as autobiography, there is only art and lies." still one of my favourite quotes. i forwent it for thegirlriot.com because that's going to be my actual business site/portfolio... but i haven't gotten around to it yet. it still has my old shell from artandlies on it. i'm so lazy. haha.
as for my blog (as if you really care about all this) the pitch is that of all the ad blogs i read, no one really analyzes advertising from a young, start-up first-year perspective. in a world that's constantly trying to think hip, i thought an authentic "view from the bottom" was appropriate.
--Riot
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Permalink Reply by Mermanda on -
I used to have a blog called "My Other Life," which I used to blog about ideas I had for pitching freelance articles for national media publications. Well, I came to my senses and realized I probably shouldn't be broadcasting things like that in such a competitive industry.
I made a new blog, which I am currently updating daily (go me!) called "Cusp of Normal." This name came about when I discussing the weirdest things about myself with my friend Karen. She decided I was "on the cusp of being normal." I'm *that* close!
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