The past two weeks have seen my blogs attached to proper domain names, but after a fortnight of near-daily posts, I decided to take a small break (two days) and see how I'd done.

Last night I added a new domain, but decided to attach it to a service where I can add a small amount of monetization and even have some sharing capability.  As a result, www.geehall1.org came into being.

I did try to use that service to have the name of this blog, but half an hour of experimenting showed it wasn't going to be exactly the way I wanted.  Hence, off to purchase the .org name and then tie the service I wanted to it.

I like the idea that the .org site allows me to provide my readers with sharing links, adding a few more options than just the cross-posting that's automatic here.

For the moment, however, it's a good idea to rearrange some post scheduling so I can still adequately do two lots of near-daily posts.  So www.geehall1.org has been promoted to a daily.  Of course, that made this particular blog you're reading a bit less frequent.  This blog will now switch to twice-weekly.

That's not so bad an idea, because later in the year I want to convert this one to a fully-hosted site.  My target is to have one fully-hosted site/domain by the end of the year or earlier.  In the meantime, if it's going to be called www.geehall1.com, I'll need have have this particular page eventually redirecting to it.  So a minimal number of posts that are easy to export to the new site is a good idea.

It's also about refreshing, original content.  It serves no real good having three domains all saying the same thing.  I prefer this year to have every site I post to having something different from the other two.  Last year I saw the problems of overdoing the cross-posting and duplicating content, which devalued the content I posted.  This year, original content on every blog I use.

It's even something that's applicable to social media.  If you have one site aggregating all your different services, just take a look at what happens when all your Twitter updates are repeated and duplicated by identi.ca and/or Facebook and even Plurk.  It gets kind of annoying and boring looking at six identical versions of the one tweet.

They're quickly discovering that over at Google Buzz this week.

Buzz is making a lot of people rethink how they do their online content and whether or not they aggregate it or duplicate it.

Anyway, it never hurts to re-evaluate from time to time.  Once in a blue moon, sit back, smell the roses/coffee, then come back to your online stuff that much fresher.

Do you take a break and re-evaluate from time to time?

Let's hear some thoughts on that.