kirktastic

kirktastic.com expires in 60 days. Although the cost to renew is negligible, I’m thinking of shutting it down by then. I might keep the domain kirktastic.com for some TBD purpose in the future. At present, I pay my host $20/month for this site plus hosting a few email-only accounts and a boatload of storage I don’t really use. I may drop that down to only a rowboat of storage and the email hosting.

My point is, I’ve been doing this blog since the spring of 2001. Here it is in the spring of 2009 and I’m sort of bored with it. I have a few dear readers but most of them can get ahold of me. I barely have enough content for a good tweet, let alone a weblog.

I’ve always been somewhat anti Facebook. I didn’t see the point, perhaps I’m showing my age. I recently tried Facebook again and found it somewhat boring. Maybe it is just me, but a lot of lost connections I’d like to reconnect with don’t use Facebook. And the new friend requests I get from people are most often people I didn’t want to reconnect with anyway. For one reason or another we’ve grown apart. I’m not the same guy I was in high school (or college or whatever). Being connected on Facebook with cousins I haven’t really met and don’t really know won’t grow my family of nomads together. I’m not going to hook of with friends of friends on Facebook. Of course, Facebook only works if everyone is on it. Facebook should have sold itself to Microsoft when it had a chance. Unless they do some serious data mining and connecting FB data with mailing lists, customer lists, credit files, public records, there isn’t really a long term business plan is there? You could say the same thing about a bazillion “social media” sites, too. Like I said I don’t see the point. Bah humbug. Get off my lawn you kids.

But wait, you say. You’re on Twitter! That seems pretty pointless too, doesn’t it? Absolutely. But I do like the SMS messages from a few of the people I follow and I like some of the “celebrity” twitterers because they are sort of funny and in the 140 character space, quite creative. Although I loathe my daily newspaper, I do like its Twitter feed (However, the Statesman has kind of gone apeshit with the number of feeds it has but I do find out about local news this way. Of course some marketers are trying to “monetize” with twitter and there is actual spammer on there now. My company recently had workshop on Twitter and Facebook — mostly for using the services as cheap/free marketing and how to keep the posts from getting the company sued. There’s this corporate version of Twitter called Yammer. It lets you tweet behind a wall. It is the equivalent of having your boss look over your shoulder while you post something. Most of the posts are so asskissing, I’m not seeing the point again. If it is somewhat successful, Microsoft will add it on to its Exchange messaging services like they did with Sharepoint and the Corporate IM client.

So I don’t know what I’m going to do with kirktastic.com going forward. Maybe one day it will just be a blank page with links to my Twitter feed and my Flickr stream. Or I make it into a highly monetized Web 2.0 portal for blah blah blah.