{"id":7,"date":"2008-02-20T12:51:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T20:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=7"},"modified":"2009-09-22T18:48:13","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T02:48:13","slug":"the-domain-and-blog-per-sese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"The Domain and 'Blog per Sese<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"

The string oeconomist<\/q> (or \u0153conomist<\/q>) is an old-fashioned spelling of economist<\/q>. I am<\/em> an economist; whether I<\/em> would be seen as an old-fashioned economist<\/em> would be a function of what one saw of my premises, methods, and conclusions.<\/p>

I am not the first person to have registered this site-name. The last previous registration expired on 4 September 2007. A check of the Wayback Machine<\/a> turned-up no archived pages, so perhaps the name were never actually assigned to a site.<\/p>

Various people have previously used oeconomist<\/q> as a regular identifier. I am not<\/em> amongst them. (In particular, I am not (and never have been) the oeconomist<\/span> at LiveJournal<\/a> and at Infotrope<\/a>.)<\/p>

The site name is registered with GoDaddy<\/a>. They're not wonderful as a registration service, but they're acceptable.<\/p>

Hosting is provided by FourBucks.net<\/a>, so named because, if one orders their package of lowest price and one pays for their services a year at a time, the charge comes to about US$4 per month. I first went to FourBucks.net<\/a> to get hosting for a different site a few years ago, at the recommendation of Ronnie Ashlock, who used and uses it to host Surlybird.com<\/a>.<\/p>

A while back, FourBucks.net<\/a> was purchased by IDAGroup LLC<\/a>. When last I knew, they'd not seemlessly integrated support. And AT&T<\/a> has a proclivity to treat e.mail from FourBucks.net<\/a> as spam.<\/p>

The 'blogging software that I'm presently using is WordPress<\/a>. At the suggestion of Gaal<\/a>, I added support for OpenID<\/a>. I did this by installing a plug-in<\/a>, WP-OpenID<\/a>. Another plug-in, Post Levels<\/a>, allows me to assign levels to posts and to registered users, such that when users are logged into the site they are able to read any posts at or below the level of their registration. And YATCP<\/abbr><\/a> modifies the interface to support a tree structure of comments (so that comments meant in reply to other comments are nested under then and so forth). I also added WP-Polls<\/a>, mostly just for minor fun. And I will look into Edit Comments XT<\/a>, to give commenters an opportunity to fix typos and to withdraw things written in haste.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The string oeconomist (or \u0153conomist) is an old-fashioned spelling of economist. I am an economist; whether I would be seen as an old-fashioned economist would be a function of what one saw of my premises, methods, and conclusions. I am not the first person to have registered this site-name. The last previous registration expired on […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[14,12,11,15,10,16,13],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-meta","category-public","tag-att","tag-fourbucks","tag-godaddy","tag-idagroup","tag-oeconomist","tag-plugins","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}