Info/Contact for David Akin

Get On The Hill updates in your RSS reader

David Akin's Facebook profile

Search this blog:
Custom Search
Subscribe to this blog using your favourite feed reader:
Login
User name:
Password:
Remember me 

Who pays for this blog?
I receive no fees, considerations, etc. etc. for the posts on this blog nor do I have any plans to accept any. My salary is paid by Canwest Global Communications Corp. I work for that company as the Ottawa-based National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service.
The blog publishing platform used here is called Blogware and it's developed by Tucows Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My use of Blogware should not be taken as an endorsement of that company. Like all Blogware users, I do not pay any fees for the use of this service.
I participate in program. Google pays me some money and, for that, I give Google some space on this site to display ads. Google sells those ads and Google, not me, decides what advertising content you are seeing. I do not filter these ads and take no responsibility for them. Readers should not assume I endorse any of the products or services advertised here.
If you think other disclosures are appropriate in this space, I'd like to hear from you. All of my contact details are always at
www.davidakin.com You can read more about this section



Re: Who pays for this blog? Some disclaimers
by DavidAkin
Colin McKay asks about my domain registrar and whether or not there is a tale waiting to be revealed and I'm happy to oblige. There is no tale, so far as I know but here you are. I have no idea who the domain registrar is for blogware.com but I assume it is Tucows as Tucows is the world's largest wholesaler of domain names. As for my own domains -- I own the rights to davidakin.com, davidakin.ca, and akin.ca -- my domain registrar was EasyDNS of Toronto but I am in the process of moving those domains to DomainPeople of Vancouver. Why? Simple. Price. I pay out of my own pocket the costs of registering and maintaining those domains and DomainPeople is cheaper than EasyDNS. Those sites are hosted by a tiny New Brunswick company called PJMCo and, once again, I pay the full freight, just like another customer of PJMCo's, for the hosting service it provides. While we're on the topic of plumbing, I'm happy to disclose that I have a high-speed Internet-over-cable service at my home, for which I, like every other customer, pay the full fare. I've decided against posting these details in my disclosure statement for they seem to me ancillary or only partly related to the production of this blog. By that I mean that I could have no relationships with any domain registrar and still have this blog, as it is up to Tucows to maintain the domain. Similarly, I could maintain this blog from any Internet connection -- work, a library, a Wi-Fi hotspot -- and, as a result, the fact that I pay for my home connection seems less important so far as the resources needed to publish this blog. Feel free to continue the argument, if you feel otherwise ...
Post comment:
Format Type: 
  Convert newlines
  Receive comment notifications for this article
Subject: 
   
insert bold tags insert italic tags insert underline tags insert strikethough tags insert link insert blockquote tags
Comment: 
Comment verification:

Please enter the text you see inside the graphic to post your comment:
You are not currently logged in. If you would like your user information to be displayed with your comment, please enter your login information below.
Login information:
Username: 
Password: 
If you would like to post contact information on your comment, please enter your information into the optional fields below:
Contact information:
Name: 
URL:  example: http://yourdomain.com
Email: 
Please note: email will not be displayed on the site, only for the blog owner. If logged in, URL will only be used.
   

Top Stories
This Month
August 2004
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
Year Archive