The dangers of posting anywhere other than your own site

(written by lawrence krubner, however indented passages are often quotes). You can contact lawrence at: lawrence@krubner.com, or follow me on Twitter.

I feel this way, strongly. I don’t write on Twitter, and I limit my use of Facebook. I try to keep all of my writing on sites I control. Mostly, I don’t want to lose everything, and I want to be able to find it later.

It needs to be said again, perhaps this time more strongly. Your Blog is The Engine of Community. Dammit.

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You are not blogging enough. You are pouring your words into increasingly closed and often walled gardens. You are giving control – and sometimes ownership – of your content to social media companies that will SURELY fail. These companies are profoundly overvalued, don’t care about permalinks, don’t make your content portable, and have terms of service that are so complex and obtuse that there are entire websites dedicate to explaining them.

I’ve presented at a number of “town hall” style meetings and often presented (for YEARS now) talks on “Social Media for Developers” where I’ve said “Every developer should have a blog.” Put yourself out there and make it findable. And still you tweet giving all your life’s precious remaining keystrokes to a company and a service that doesn’t love or care about you – to a service that can’t even find a tweet you wrote a month ago.

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    http://www.hanselman.com/blog/YourWordsAreWasted.aspx
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