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“But it’s all worth it” is the sentence you normally hear uttered in
form of a mantra by parents when it comes to the conversation about
having children. Well, count me in

Maybe it’s too early, but little more than three weeks after the birth
of my son, I can say that I get little sleep (which I am used too, but
it used to be on my own terms). It’s especially taking it’s tool on my
wife, who’s been on her own with him during the day now for the first
time after having excellent support from my mother in law for almost
three full weeks (thanks!).

Despite feeling tired (I can only get through one page of the book I am
trying to read on the train before falling asleep) and frustrated about
not being able to follow up with all other duties as needed, there is
that “cloud of happiness” around my head. A little look at our son can make things good again. It is all worth it – and it’s only just the beginning.

I posted a new photo to Kaeden.

As a matter of fact, yes We’ve got all the letters for the name of our son (who is soon to be born), but the “A” you know, I am talking about those wooden letters for the wall by Nexxt. We’ve been waiting for two weeks now.

Apparently we also would have been able to reserve the $2.50 item at Kitchen Stuff Plus for a partial deposit (a cent? ) and they would have tried to get it from another one of their stores for us. However nobody told us about this. Well, 30 “A”s are on back order and 6 people are on the “Waiting for As” list.

Dear Blog:

I am sorry for not having paid so much attention to you lately. Your younger brother, domaineditorial.com, has taken up most of my blogging time. I promised to pay more attention to you in the future

/Frank

Sorry for not posting here lately, but we’ve been pretty busy with the following:

- work
- preparing for the arrival of our son (to be born in March)
- hobbies
- my own business
- many things to sort out
- the holidays

Hopefully I will get around to posting more soon.

Happy Holidays to you and all your loved ones.

(picture by me)

I recently came across Riya, a new online photo service.

Basically this is a service where you upload your pictures and identify
people in the pictures. The system will then also be able to identify
the same people on other pictures. Sounds like something Flickr should
be adding.

The part that I am not so sure about here is the privacy. Making all of
this information publicly available is certainly a concern – just think
about all the places that would love to license and have access to this
information in order to identify people.

I have recently started a new blog, which I would still consider in
Beta Status. You will see fewer posts on domain name related issues
here, since those are being moved to the “Domain Editorial“, which is located at http://www.domaineditorial.com/ .

If I had a newspaper, my website would be a blog. And since some people
still like to get the printed word, my printed paper would be generated
from the blog at a certain time and then go to the presses. If I had a
magazine, it would be the same – just that it gets printed once a month.

I would probably have more content, and more interaction with my
readers. This would mean a shift in the way the authors work, but it
would also enrich my publication and probably make it more objective.

My publication would attract more readers from all over the world, and
different types of advertisers. There would be advertising on the site,
related to the articles it surrounds where possible. My advertisers
could better track the results of their advertising, and since the ads
are better target, they would achieve better results.

If I had a certain size of online readership, I could even consider
charging for subscriptions to some of the sections of the site.

But then again, if I was a publisher of a newspaper or a magazine I
would probably not be able to relate to any of this. I might be out of
business before putting any of this into action, but in any case it
will take me years to realize that I should focus on the online
presence of my paper.

If I ran a radio station, my website would have a blog. I would offer
PodCasts of my shows. I would offer songs for download against a small
fee.

If I ran a TV station, my website would have a blog. Where legally
possible I would offer VideoCasts of my shows. Where possible I would
charge a small fee for those downloads.

(This is something I have thought about before, but this specific post was inspired by Bucko. Thanks!)

Moody’s Corporation Acquires Economy.com not just the domain though: