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My web presence has grown over the years.  Back in the early ’90s I had the earliest site on the corporate network where I worked.  By the late ’90s I had moved added a personal site out on the wide web.  Take a look at this<\/a> from the Way Back Machine, “The Melton Page”.<\/p>\n

Part of what I did was a blog, even before that name was invented, and over time, I ported the personal blog thread to Idle Thoughts hosted on Blogger.<\/p>\n

As it became clear to me that I needed an ‘Author’s site’, I branched off of my “Melton” site and created a place dedicated to my writing, where I could list my works and post some writings.  The first domain name I acquired was HenryMelton.com<\/a> for this site.  From a hand-coded collection of pages, it gradually evolved to the iWeb managed site for people who are interested in my work.<\/p>\n

When I began publishing and created Wire Rim Books, I first attempted to use the Google Pages to host a website as the public face of the company.  After struggling with the crude tools and templates available there, I created a second iWeb site at www.WireRimBooks.com <\/a>where the focus was on the books published by the company.  It was a place for press releases, catalogs and collected reviews.<\/p>\n

There were plenty of one-shot places as well, like Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace.  I would have to do a bit of research to track them all down.  Each time I added another, it was clear that keeping them all current was an impossible task.  The HenryMelton.com site and the WireRimBooks.com sites were heavily cross-linked to reduce duplication.  Browse around on one and you’re likely to end up on the other.  They can easily be thought of as one website.<\/p>\n

When Twitter rolled around, it was clear that this was a happy way to add current information to many of the sites.  A little snippet of code could be included in each of the other sites and recent tweets would show up on appropriate sites.  When I added a Facebook ‘Fan’ page, there was the option to tweet whenever I posted something to the page.  Currently, Twitter is the core of the information flow among the sites, although I can start by tweeting directly, or by posting something writing related to the Facebook Fan page.  If it’s not writing related, I skip directly to Twitter.<\/p>\n

The same applies to my Blog entries on Idle Thoughts (like this one).  If it is writing\/publishing related, I’ll announce the blog post on the Facebook Fan page.  If it’s a blog about something else, like a snake in the swimming pool, I’ll announce it on Twitter.<\/p>\n

It’s definitely a complex web of information, but that’s why it got that name, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My web presence has grown over the years.  Back in the early ’90s I had the earliest site on the corporate network where I worked.  By the late ’90s I had moved added a personal site out on the wide web.  Take a look at this from the Way Back Machine, “The Melton Page”. Part… Continue reading My “Website”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,77,81],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/NetworkLinks.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-xX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}