Domain Name Update for DoAskDoTell.com and related domains
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Name |
Type |
content |
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Windows server |
Static, all topics, no advertising |
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Unix |
Static, topics that are suitable for advertisers |
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Unix |
Static, resume and certain business or legal information, small, no advertising |
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Blogspot entries (15); see doaskdotell.com index for links |
Blogger Push-Button |
“newsfeeds” on various topics; takes ads |
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No longer in use; orphaned |
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iUniverse (see /obtain.htm at this domain for direct links) |
Publishing company JSP |
Book sales links and browse text |
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Hppub.com |
Not in use since |
Not in use; name controlled by another company with no connection to me |
Here is the link indicating the
most likely locations of files on the new site. Please look at this site if you
are having trouble finding the material, or have just visited the old site.
The discussion below was implemented from
For the time being, and as a best-practices matter, I
plan to have only one domain name not based on my own name. In the short run, I
am not offering commercial advertising space (I do offer courtesy link
exchanges) on this domain. Later (toward the end of 2005), I may open another
domain with well-researched and factual technical or policy blogs
that would tend to appeal readily to some commercial advertisers. I am still
working on some issues and content with regard to such a domain.
(Please note also the domain name
disclaimer on the home page for this domain. I have no business connection with
any other similarly named domain name or business.)
(Please see this update, effective
This document explains the purpose of my three domains from this day going forward. I’ll be specific as to my intentions, and offer a few comments about my underlying reasoning.
DOASKDOTELL.COM (on Windows 2003 server, with FrontPage extensions)
This domain name has been renewed through
Here, I will repeat two other statements that appear on my
index page. First: “This site (with
the sister sites) presents an objective approach (that I call "Do Ask, Do
Tell") to social and political issues, where arguments and
counter-arguments are directly compared. The concept comports with the notion
of "open source." Although it originated with resisting the military's
"don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays, the approach applies to any
social problem balancing individual freedom with supposed collective
welfare. Second: There
is no (business) connection between this domain and any other domain with the
same prefix but a different tld (top level domain name)
suffix, or with any other subdomain of any other
domain - see point 8). There is also no other connection with any business,
organizational or other entity anywhere on the planet (except as associated
with me and my proprietorship).
The following
material will be housed in the space for doaskdotell.com:
∙
New essays on important social or political issues
∙
Information about my efforts to adapt my material for motions pictures or
television or other media, along with some sample scripts (screenplays),
videos, or images
∙
Database infrastructure that uses Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL 2000, or
other major Microsoft database access, including applications developed in
Visual Studio .
·
Reference materials (some of this material will migrate here from hppub.com)
∙
Accounts of legal proceedings (like COPA)
HPPUB.COM
(on Unix Server) aka HIGHPRODUCTIVITYPUBLISHING.COM
This
domain was active
through
The
assumed name or trade name for the entity that published the book in 1997 is
“High Productivity Publishing.” It is still a proprietorship belonging to me. I
have set up a domain name highproductivitypublishing.com, which will point to
the same space as hppub.com through
After
∙
Footnote files and sidebars based on materials in the printed books (including
iUniverse books), including public domain court opinions if related to the content
of the books. (Some material from my Master’s Thesis also will remain here.)
∙
Original book text browsable as HTML, including the
alternative “1996 Essays” and the six special essays posted in early 2001.
∙
Movie, book, and drama reviews
∙
Essays or commentaries submitted by others, although some less relevant or
older contributions may soon be removed.
∙
Purchase information, and this might include direct credit-card access
∙
Carefully selected advertising from “upscale” companies in areas like software,
security, education, textbooks. The advertising come could facilitated by more
than one company (right now the company is Linkshare).
∙ Newfeeds, but carefully selected and managed.
∙ Legal and
business information directly related to High Productivity Publishing, such
as intellectual property policies or agreements, or conflict-of-interest
policies
∙ Information for others who may wish to work with me on literary
or film submissions.
Files
that are not closely related to my published books, to material submitted by
others, or to the normal components of a publishing business will be moved to
other domains. For example, resumes, classwork notes
and current editorial material belongs on non-commercial domains. Files that
are moved will be noted as migrated.
On
JOHNWBOUSHKA.COM (on Unix
Server)
This is
my “personal domain.” (
The
domain, until the late summer of 2006, had housed various experiments in java
and MySQL to categorize political arguments in
relational databases. I was using an ISP that offered java servlets.
Unfortunately, that ISP seems to have gone out of business. Right now, I am
focusing the database development in a Windows environment with Microsoft SQL
and Visual Studio .
BILLBOUSHKA.COM (On Unix
Server)
This
domain was set up in March 2006. The intention is to use it soon for materials
from doaskdotell.com that would be suitable for advertisers. It is still under
development (as of 7/2006). This material is expected to be relatively
permanent and stable. “Bill” is my nicknamed based on my full middle name
(“William”).
BLOGSPOT.COM
The
entries are on the doaskdotell.com home page, or can be viewed from http://www.blogger.com/profile/17567456 The most important
blog is http://billboushka.blogspot.com The other blogs
are named and pointed to from the index page for doaskdotell.com. This was set up in January 2006 as an effort
to experiment with trying to earn advertising revenue.
Much of
the hppub.com content also exists on the Hometown
In February 2006 I disabled
access to these domains from an index page. They no longer appear in search
engines since they are orphaned.
A MORE PERSONAL
NOTE
I have
entered the intellectual property marketplace as a largely self-published
writer, and I have leveraged the new technology to gain exposure at very low
cost. I want to make note here that I am very well aware of the objections that
some people could raise to the practice.
In core, some people could object to my drawing attention to myself and
possibly to others associated with me, without normal accountability or
“solidarity.” For example, why should others listen to me on issues if I was not
“man enough” to raise a family myself. You can get the tone of this and where
it can go, without too much more detail here. At a certain level of motivation,
one makes the determination to do this or not. It’s that simple.
There
are legal risks associated with writing, especially self-publishing. The can he
hard to quantify and unpredictable, but they are not necessarily greater than
the risks encountered in many other fields, even in some relatively “ordinary”
jobs. There is always the possibility of running into unexpected complications
like zoning or unfair competition (am I depriving a real estate owner of
commercial rent, or another “established” writer of the ability to make an
old-fashioned living) in any environment where one leverages technology in a
new way (and maybe sets an ambiguous example for others). There is also the possibility that future
developments in the War on Terror or future enforcement mechanism of
anti-pornography laws (if a constitutional one is ever passed!) might require more
financial substance (like the ability to post bonds) from domain owners. I want to emphasize here that I do not
send spam or engage in telemarketing; and as a writer and future filmmaker
myself, I do not engage in piracy.
The announcements made today do depend, essentially, on the absence of
unexpected complications. But I have done the due diligence.
I will
make a note here, too, on the potential “conflict of interest” between making a
living and writing with total intellectual honesty (and credibility). People
get paid big bucks to sell or peddle someone else’s work to the public. That
presents obvious ethical problems in my situation. I have retired, and I have
worked in some intermittent positions (bill collecting, substitute teaching)
since taking my final “buyout” (it was significant) and pension. In most
situations it would be inappropriate for me to have direct reports (for the
sake of achieving a certain position or salary within an organization), or to
speak for another organization to the public. It is more appropriate for me to
work as a consultant to solve specific problems for different customers than to
be responsible for “people,” particularly in a salaried capacity. I have
already listed above some of the problems that I would like to work on. On the
other hand, to maintain objectivity, I generally do not participate in public
demonstrations (other than walking in Pride marches), union activities or
pickets, or similar conventional activism; when I receive a request to contact
a politician about an issue to be voted on, I usually do not respond unless I
am prepared to write the elected person an original, somewhat detailed letter.
Among
the opportunities that I will pursue are those that would come from providing
new material to the literary marketplace: up to three fiction novels, and
several screenplays (at least two of them based on my first book, at least
loosely). I am continuing to provide book and movie reviews on my hppub site. I could imagine that these could be perceived
as causing a “conflict of interest” once I submit materials to conventional
“third parties” (agents and coverage companies); but generally I have been told
that the reviews are interesting and might be sellable to advertisers if
converted to dynamic content.
As noted
above, I do feel free to look at unrelated self-employment business
opportunities. Such opportunities must be “bona fide” and not be based on a
business model that seems fundamentally unethical or even illegal (“getting
something for nothing,” money transfer scams, sending spam, or assisting with
piracy), or which seems like a superficial operation to hucksterize
questionable business transactions or “unnecessary” services to large numbers
of potential customers. Generally, I will not be willing to invest significant
capital of my own in business activities unrelated to intellectual property
(even more so on short notice!) This is
partly because I do have to be very careful and conservative in my current
situation. I may, given sufficient justification, consider investing in another
developer’s film or book project. Any opportunities are looked at very
carefully.
Note on Internet Governance
There
has been a lot of controversy over Internet governance, and the role of ICANN
(the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), much of which
operates in the
Return
to home page
View discussion of Supreme
Court decision on COPA
Intellectual Property fact
sheet (includes more discussion of trademarks and domain names with some
bibliographic links)
Return
to special topics index
Contact
me at JBoushka@aol.com or visit my contact information.
Here is
a rough work schedule
for 2005.
WHOIS information
If you
want to view WHOIS information for these domains, you should go to
networksolutions.com for doaskdotell.com. The information there is
correct. If you want to look at
johnwboushka.com go to tucows.com. I
have had difficulty getting the current address data updated there. The correct
contact information for that domain is shown at the “contact information” link
above. You can check domain names at whois.sc also,
although this information may not always be as current.