MightyFunk

Blog­ging Origins

I’m an old-school blog­ger and web­site developer/designer. Orig­i­nally, I had a blog called ‘Lunarlog’ (off of my main web­site Lunarstu­dio which started off on a very good note and gained a fair amount of pop­u­lar­ity. That blog had been cre­ated in a time when most peo­ple never even heard of the term ‘blog.’ I had used an early sys­tem that I installed and hooked in called Mov­able­type (famous for blog­gers blog­ging on Type­pad.) Over a short amount of time, Lunarlog fell into a very sad state of disrepair.

Q: Why do you have the name Mightyfunk?

A: Because every sin­gu­lar word for domain names in the eng­lish lan­guage has already been taken or put on mar­ket for exor­bi­tant prices. I went down a list of names that sounded catchy, but all of them had been nabbed. Then I went down two-word domain names and this sud­denly popped into my head for no appar­ent rea­son what­so­ever. I was actu­ally sur­prised that it was avail­able. I was even more sur­prised that the .net and mightyfunky.com was avail­able which I quickly registered.

There’s really no sim­ple answer. How­ever, I can list a few reasons:

Per­sonal Reasons:

1. Ego. Yes, I like to blab sometimes…
2. Being social. As much as I’m embar­rassed to admit, I do occa­sion­ally find peo­ple fascinating.
3. Shar­ing art­work, pho­tos, and music.
4. Spread­ing strange and inter­est­ing news. When I come across some­thing incred­i­bly stu­pid, I feel a moral oblig­a­tion to share these find­ings with others.
5. Pos­si­bly get­ting a few friends to get together to cre­ate a com­mu­nity of inter­est­ing posts.
6. Bore­dom. I have a slight break from real work and thought this could be fun to do…