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Hi and welcome to the new heathermartin.net/weblog. Glad you stopped by. I've recently started to use an entirely new platform for this weblog.

New platform?...

Glad you asked. It's a super awesome new platform for creating weblogs or any other dynamic site created by my genius friend Rob (robreed at gmail dot com). Email him and tell him how awesome he is.

Why my new weblog is better than Facebook

Now that I have this wonderful new blog, I'll probably spend much less time on FaceBook. After all, why route all of my content through a service that I have no control over for the luxury of wading through ads, and hoping that they don't change the terms of service at a moment's notice in such a way that I'm no longer comfortable with their policies? Worst case scenario, I could be cut off from both my friends and my content. That would be a sad thing. Not to mention the fact that we already have a web, I don't really see the need to build a web on top of the web and put it in the hands of a single commercial entity. There's just something that doesn't feel right when I hear that Facebook is worth multiple billions of dollars given that all of the vast majority of its value comes from the web itself and the contributions of members like me.

I'd rather invest in my own online presence. You can always find me at heathermartin.net