On Narcissism
Douglas Karr is linking to a John Chow post called My Name Is My Domain List. Interesting, why do some people choose to use their name as their URL? My reason was similar to Mr. Karr’s.
“My companies, jobs, and websites might come and go - but I’m sticking with my name.”
I work on a lot of other people’s sites, and I wanted some place to be just me. To say what I thought about graphic design and web design, with no association to a business or organization. I thought it was only appropriate that I use my name for it. Since my last name isn’t easy to spell or remember, I simply went with my last initial instead. Am I a narcissist? I think all designers have to have a little of that in them, but I do think Douglas T dot com has a nice ring to it.
I had a little difficulty coming up with adds for my list. Most of the ones that I thought of were blogger.com, wordpress.com, or typepad.com sites. For now I’ll just add Andy Rutledge who I only recently discovered.
***Start Copying Here***
- Write a short introduction paragraph about what how you found the list and include a link to the blog that referred you to the list.
- COPY the ENTIRE List below and add it to your blog. To avoid duplicate content and increase the amount of keywords your site can accessible for, go ahead and change the titles of the blog. Just don’t change the links of the blog.
- Take “My Adds” and move them into the “My Originals” list.
- Add 3 Brand New Narcissistic Bloggers that you know of
My Adds:
Andy Rutledge
Douglas T - mine of course
The Originals:
Chris Baggott - Email Marketing
Pat Coyle - Sports Marketing
Ade Olonoh - Software Entrepreneur
Bob Buskirk
Jon Waraas
David Lithman
Gary Lee
Ed Lau
John Chow dot Com
Nate Whitehill
Stephen Fung
Michael Kwan
Jeff Kee
Stuart Hanning
Hannes Johnson
Nomar
Nathan Drach
Saman Sadeghi
Douglas Karr - On Influence and Automation
***Stop Copying Here***
Mine may be “STANFORD ES” when I become a Pro!
Comment by Lee — March 9, 2007 @ 10:03 am
I’ve thought about using one that was a name, but just not my name. milton thornhill dot com or something. For some reason it just strikes me as humorous to have a “named” site without the name.
Comment by Douglas T — March 9, 2007 @ 10:18 am
I guess it just comes down to a matter of personal choice!
Comment by Lee — March 10, 2007 @ 8:05 am
[...] we decide that we need a website and how much website we need, it’s time to name our websites. Is it narcissistic to name our websites with our real names? Douglas T helps us sort that out. Using my REAL name [...]
Pingback by badrose » VIRGINIA BLOG CARNIVAL!!!! — March 12, 2007 @ 1:42 pm
Hi!
I’m new to the this and still woefully computer illiterate.
I had been toying about using my name, but I thought creating a persona that related only to me would be more attractive to others and protect my privacy where smammers etc. were concerned.
While I am an independent contractor for a student tour operator, I shall be getting up a commercial website advertising my services. But the object of my current blog is pure and not self-serving; I prefer to remain a ‘character’.
However, here is how I came to the name - I think you would find it amusing!
Comment by The Tour Marm — March 13, 2007 @ 2:31 am
While the anonymous blog has a certain appeal, saying what I think does too.
Comment by Douglas T — March 13, 2007 @ 6:37 am