Master of my own domain – update
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Back in April I wrote about securing my real name (Mike Allan) as a domain. I pointed the main domain to this site and I’ve pretty much left it alone.
When I was off this past weekend I read Douglas Coupland’s 1995 book “Microserfs.” If you haven’t read the book I won’t give away too much, but suffice it to say that for me the central theme to the book was that geeks need to have lives outside of their work environment.
That hit home pretty hard for me. Since I first became involved in the new media business 14 years ago I have always had my day job and a side business involved in the creation of media. Essentially I was a 24 / 7 new media geek. But lately I’ve been going through some issues that opened my eyes to the fact that I can’t be a geek 24/7. Like the characters in the book, I need to get a life outside of my geekdom.
So I am setting up a “personal” blog as a sub domain of mikeallan.com . This will cover off other topics of interest to me, such as our retired racing greyhound, being the father to a tween and a teen, and various other subjects I’ll tackle when they come up. It will be like an online journal for me.
Writing a blog not on tech subjects is essentially still creating media, but it is different as I am writing from my heart, not my brain. If you know what I mean. I’m not sharing my knowledge, I’m sharing ME, the person, not the geek.
This is all new for me, and I’m excited and looking forward to it at the same time. And it was all because of a book. About geeks getting a life.
