Newspapergirl or Newspapergrl - You Choose
Thanks to Jeff Barr today is historic for my blog. Never expecting it to be read by anyone but me, I didn’t buy the domain name newspapergirl (try it out, click on the link!). I named my blog a quirky newspapergrl without an “i” because I thought it was sort of like punk rock grrrl bands in the 80s. Or it was slightly nerdy to say “grl.” Something like that. Really all I wanted to do is be a reporter and blogging has given me that and paid a lot more with a lot better hours.
Back to my story. By the time I realized I might want the a more intuitive “girl” someone had already bought the domain name. Jeff Barr came to the rescue and gave it to me for an early birthday present after I blogged about how I wish I owned it. Now if we could just give Jeff his proper domain name of www.jeffbarr.com without a dash between his first and last name.
Just today my colleague asked me if I had purchased my son’s domain name, and I haven’t. I do have plans to turn him into an internet entrepreneur when he’s older. If he’ll have it. He may just look at this whole thing as taking a whole lot of my time and attention and decide to play sports instead. I don’t know how I’d feel about that. I think if it was soccer I could get used to the idea.
I have transferred my new domain to my servers (by myself actually since I couldn’t reach a single geek friend this evening to help…yes, I’m proud of mysefl) and redirected it to this blog. My motto is try to always date a geek because it’s really painful to do yourself. Geeks and marketers actually are a good pair even though there is inherent conflicts because IT has a natural instinct to hate marketers. Next I have a new wireless router to set up and I’d rather wake up at 5am than do it myself.
To sum up after a long tangent: it’s been a real pain to tell everyone how to spell newspapergrl all this time. Now you don’t have to. Type in either spelling and you’ll get the blog.
Thank you again Jeff Barr!!
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7 Responses to “Newspapergirl or Newspapergrl - You Choose”
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June 14th, 2007 at 4:42 am
I think the Newspapergirl (with the i) is less confusing and less weird.
June 14th, 2007 at 6:18 am
Hi Janet, you are welcome!
June 14th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Congrats, Janet! I married a geek (being a marketer myself) and while he is very handy to have around… MAN, do we get into fights about how things “should” be.
In the end, it’s worth it.
Kristin
June 16th, 2007 at 3:01 am
I thought the lack of an ‘i’ was your attempt at a typical Web 2.0 name
I am glad to learn this is not the case, because those are lame! (are you reading this, Flickr? Scribd?)
June 16th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Janet, I think Newspapergirl.com is the way to go…
June 18th, 2007 at 5:57 am
Not sure if you are aware but it still says ‘Newspapergrl’ in the .
June 18th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
OK - just checked my post and I see it removed my tag reference
I meant to say, “it still says ‘Newspapergrl’ in the title”