Metacentricities

As you probably recall, I recently moved this blog from Typepad to Wordpress. It was an easy process, and one that was well worth it. But, of course, spammers of all stripes (email spammers, comment spammers, weblog spammers) are like mold growing on a piece of bread that’s been out for a few days. In order to avoid having to cough up $150 for another year, and to move to an entirely free and open source platform that I control, I cancelled my typepad account. And, I guess, people watch typepad, pay attention to page rank and google, because this is what showed up on the typepad url only days after I canceled my account:

What’s amazing to me, actually, is how dumb they are. Why they think readers of my blog would be interested in firearms, I’m not exactly sure. At first, I thought it might be Six Apart trying to goad me to re-sign up my account, but I decided that’s probably something they don’t have time for.

And the very very sad part is that if you google me, this is now the top link. I have NO idea how that would happen, since my name is nowhere in the page (or even in the cached version they have, which is also post-cancellation.

I’m imagining it will fall off at some point, but I think I’m going to have to start doing something about it. If you have a link on your blogroll to my blog, please check to make sure it is http://www.metacentricities.com!! Thanks!!

So, here’s the lesson. If you’re thinking about starting a blog, and you’re debating between self-hosting and a commercial service, self-host, because even if you do domain mapping with the commercial service (which I did for a year) it doesn’t matter, in the end, you don’t have control.

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