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by literalusername
5209 days ago
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In that post, you wrote, "DotTEL is not at all limited, as long as you can transition to the mindset of decoupling your content from its address." Care to elaborate? I thought tel stores no more than phonebook data. How could you use it to serve a web app? |
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By "decoupling", I mean to get away from the mindset that your domain goes directly to your content, which is what we've all come to expect when we type in the URL and press ENTER. I envision my DotCOM redirecting to my DotTEL, which has: 1) a very short description of what it's all about, 2) a link to a long description, 3) a link to a chatroom, 4) a link to a forum, whose content might be mirrored, in realtime, to one or two other forum providers, which would also be linked on the DotTEL, thus providing continuity for important material, and 5) links to any other webapp or content that I could possibly want to include. Also, I can quickly modify the DotTEL with status info about myself or about any of my links.
The bottom line is that my DotTEL becomes an anchor for all of my stuff. Of course, I don't anticipate that everyone will simply convert, as most people will come up with objections as to why their content or their audience can't or won't switch or be switched to this intermediate format, but it will work fine for me, and I assume for a good number of people who want some measure of protection when faced with the aftermath of their DotCOM being seized.
[1] http://justin.tel
[2] http://www.nic.tel/community-weeklytel.html