2009 has been rough for domainers, but put it in perspective.
I got an iPod this week. Yes, it’s my first iPod. I bought it because I got back into running and needed to get my own tunes rather than borrowing my wife’s iPod.
Since I plan to use it primarily for running, I initially considered getting the iPod Shuffle. But I liked the idea of the Touch as a portable video game player; kind of a throwback to my days growing up playing the GameBoy.
Touch vs. Shuffle. The Touch is so big, isn’t it? It’s clearly too big for running.
Then I put things in perspective. When I ran cross country in high school I would run with a Walkman. With a cassette player. After that, I graduated to an even larger Walkman with a CD player. (Remember these?)
The iPod Touch is 1/5 the depth of a cassette Walkman and a fraction of the size of a CD player. So when you put things in perspective, the Touch is minuscule, and there’s no reason you can’t go running with it.
Much like the size of an iPod, I think it’s smart to put 2009 in domaining in perspective. We’re all thinking about the glory years in domain parking. But how does now compared to, say, 2004? Are we better off today? The first five years I owned domain names I didn’t make a cent from them, because there wasn’t domain parking as we know it. For the first two web sites I built in the late 90s I had to get direct advertisers because there was no such thing as Google Adsense.
Compared to a decade ago, I’d say things are much better. Sometimes you just have to put things in perspective.
Daniel Dryzek says
Nice comparison 🙂 But still I think Shuffle will be better for running 😉
Chris says
If you can tame expectations…then perception comes right into line!
Steve M says
He who expects nothing is never disappointed. 😉