{"id":1612,"date":"2013-02-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2013\/02\/22\/1560\/"},"modified":"2013-02-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T23:00:00","slug":"1560","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2013\/02\/22\/1560\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Norris: No one cares about your URLs (so buy a domain)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Norris (who works at Google) \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/willnorris.com\/2013\/02\/no-one-cares-about-your-urls\">No one cares about your URLs (so buy a domain)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <em>only<\/em> way for you to ensure the integrity and longevity of your content is for you to take ownership of how it is accessed. Do yourself a favor and go buy a domain that you use for publishing your content.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t understand why even software celebrities like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/kent-beck\/focusing-talks-three-questions\/536820369684165\">Kent Beck<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/110981030061712822816\/posts\/KaSKeg4vQtz\">Steve Yegge<\/a> publish long-form, important stuff in foreign spaces with (usually) ugly URLs that will one day go away, i.e. Facebook, Google Plus or WordPress.com.<\/p>\n<p>This has been obvious for years if not decades. (And not only for Web sites, but for e-mail addresses as well.) I bought my own nice domain name in 1998, and it has outlived a large number of services already and will probably last longer than Facebook or Google Plus. Owning a small part of the World Wide Web was part of the Web fascination back in the day, and for me it still is. Let\u2019s empower even less-technical people to break out of corporate information silos!<\/p>\n<p>See also: Marco Arment \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2011\/07\/11\/own-your-identity\">Own your identity<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Norris (who works at Google) \u2013 No one cares about your URLs (so buy a domain): \u201cThe only way for you to ensure the integrity and longevity of your content is for you to take ownership of how it is accessed. Do yourself a favor and go buy a domain that you use for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}