I own derekleif.com as well as this (if you type "derekleif.com" in your address window, it’ll redirect you here), but I really like derekleif.org.
Contrary to popular belief about website evaluation, you can’t trust .org anymore than .com. If you type martinlutherking.org in your address box, you’ll get to a horrible site that tells “the truth” about Martin Luther King. It's actually a fake history site that belongs to the notorious white supremacist organization Stormfront; there are many more examples of this.
So basically, any clown (myself included) can buy a website address with a .org suffix.
Well, I still like it.
Think about the name choice that goes into setting up a website. It can be a company site (I'm wary of companies), a government site (I'm also wary of government) or a military site (I'm wary of them, too). I’ll take an organization every day.
Out of “military,” “government,” and “company,” the only one that can become a verb is government, which can become “govern.” I don’t want to govern. I would like decent people to govern, but it’s just not for me.
On the other hand, I just find the word “organize” uplifting and empowering. Whenever there’s some sort of something that is positive and grassroots-ish, organizing is the key, to getting it off the ground, particularly if the folks behind this something that they are trying to get off the ground don’t have a lot of money.
This doesn’t, but the way, have to be anything partisan. It may be something as simple as deciding that the local neighborhood needs a park. And when it comes to getting stuff like that done, I don’t think of corporations or military.
Granted, it’s often local government that ends up ultimately making stuff such a park happen, but it all happens because people organize. They make phone calls. They start Facebook groups. They go to town hall meetings.
And it’s great when this happens. A long while back, where I grew up, I attended a town meeting where some parents wanted some extra safety signs around the local school. I saw the signs there a little while later, and I felt just a little bit more faith in humanity than I had before.
In addition this this…boy, do I wish I were better organized. I don’t wish I were more corporate, and I don’t wish I were more militaristic, and I don’t wish I were more governmental. I do, however, wish I were more organized; then maybe I would have gotten this whole .org thing off the ground a lot earlier.
Anyway, it’s derekleif.org. Perhaps, in the future, I will work to organize my half dozen readers so that we can…well, I don’t know what we could do at the moment. I do, however, know that we have a far better chance of getting it done if we put aside our differences, organize, and work together.
Contrary to popular belief about website evaluation, you can’t trust .org anymore than .com. If you type martinlutherking.org in your address box, you’ll get to a horrible site that tells “the truth” about Martin Luther King. It's actually a fake history site that belongs to the notorious white supremacist organization Stormfront; there are many more examples of this.
So basically, any clown (myself included) can buy a website address with a .org suffix.
Well, I still like it.
Think about the name choice that goes into setting up a website. It can be a company site (I'm wary of companies), a government site (I'm also wary of government) or a military site (I'm wary of them, too). I’ll take an organization every day.
Out of “military,” “government,” and “company,” the only one that can become a verb is government, which can become “govern.” I don’t want to govern. I would like decent people to govern, but it’s just not for me.
On the other hand, I just find the word “organize” uplifting and empowering. Whenever there’s some sort of something that is positive and grassroots-ish, organizing is the key, to getting it off the ground, particularly if the folks behind this something that they are trying to get off the ground don’t have a lot of money.
This doesn’t, but the way, have to be anything partisan. It may be something as simple as deciding that the local neighborhood needs a park. And when it comes to getting stuff like that done, I don’t think of corporations or military.
Granted, it’s often local government that ends up ultimately making stuff such a park happen, but it all happens because people organize. They make phone calls. They start Facebook groups. They go to town hall meetings.
And it’s great when this happens. A long while back, where I grew up, I attended a town meeting where some parents wanted some extra safety signs around the local school. I saw the signs there a little while later, and I felt just a little bit more faith in humanity than I had before.
In addition this this…boy, do I wish I were better organized. I don’t wish I were more corporate, and I don’t wish I were more militaristic, and I don’t wish I were more governmental. I do, however, wish I were more organized; then maybe I would have gotten this whole .org thing off the ground a lot earlier.
Anyway, it’s derekleif.org. Perhaps, in the future, I will work to organize my half dozen readers so that we can…well, I don’t know what we could do at the moment. I do, however, know that we have a far better chance of getting it done if we put aside our differences, organize, and work together.
