Blogging isn’t so easy! You have to be passionate about it and other things must suffer, else it …. I still believe if the main purpose is to earn money, YouTube is the fastest way to go about it, and you must be consistent… 1000 YouTube Channel sub + 4000 watch hours within the last 365 days ….….

Or a .coffee

Coffee’s never enough for those who do our job.

Let us know! :)

@regnor 

Now I am interested: what german laws are stopping you from doing this?

What about TheBurke.engineer ? 

I assume it is the german law about the legal notice for websites. You have to write your complete address in it. At least is it this what stops me from owning a public blog.

@vNote42 

https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/website-compliance-germany
 

This webpage has collected all the rules.

Yes, it is complicated

But an Impressum - that must include the address - is just necessary for commercial websites. 

There are a bunch of lawyers that say something different

That’s a lot. Here in Italy the must for a blog is only “Cookies policy”.

@JMeixner and @Mildur are right. You need an imprint/impressum and legal texts, like a privacy policy. It's a bit of grey zone if a technical blog would be personal or commercial; it depends on which source you consult, but at the end you're recommended to have all legals parts just to be on the safe side. Even if it's not required, I don't want to spend my time arguing about it

Well i did get a message when trying to purchase a domain name from google saying something about “in your country not allowed etc”, then googled and found it has something to do with taxes. Will investigate more again today. My plan is to post there and then link into here like I see others doing. 

I need something more “jazzy” Burke is a pretty rough surname to begin with. For the Brits it is even a put down “don’t be a burke”, can’t remember but I got that a lot at the Embassy. Maybe @MicoolPaul can help here, does burke in the colloquial Queen’s English still have a negative connotation? :) 

So Notorious KGG sounds cool but Notorious might scare customers away (I.e he is notoriously bad . 

Maybe “GO with GB and remain Ransomware free”!! Man this whole blogging and marketing thing is turning out to be tougher than I thought. 

It’s a weak put down don’t worry! It’s far more offensive to call someone a donkey or a wet flannel than a Burke

We’ll have to come up with some ideas for your blog name!

A wet flannel? flannel is a kubernetes CNI https://github.com/flannel-io/flannel, I don’t use it though as if I remember correctly it does not support network policies. But a wet flannel? I guess as opposed to a hot calico https://www.tigera.io/project-calico/ which is my choice .. as for donkey I have been called that too, and a goat in Russian (being a goat in Russian is nicht gut!!), never understand this slant against poor goats but… 

Anyways, I feel a lot better now :) 

What about ITstoriesfromGeoff.com or talesfromGeoff.com? Your stories are always interesting and fun, so why not make it your blog name

Sounds like a good idea tho 

Tomorrow I will make the decision this is going to be tough so many good ideas. Thanks Folks!!

True, but if I called you a GOAT I’d be saying Greatest Of All Time.

Ideas:

Burkesblog.cloud (.com taken)

Geoffscloud.blog/com

GeniusGeoff.tech/com

Geoffandtheclouds.com/tech/blog

GeoffsAdventuresInThe.Cloud

GeoffsAdventuresIn.Tech

Burkes.solution

Geoffs.solution

TheWordFromGeoff.whatever

oh, oh, copyright issues…. The lawyers are looking forward to this…