This is probably as good a time as any to mention that I own mayorrobford.ca

I don’t want to tell a bunch of mayoral campaign staffers how to do their jobs, but in this day and age, the importance of owning your online identity can’t be understated. I guess that’s why it seems especially odd to me that the Ford campaign, with all their bogus radio callers and fake accounts on Twitter, somehow neglected to lock down a domain name as relevant as mayorrobford.ca.

If nothing else, you’d think they’d want to buy it up after their candidate had won, just to make sure it wasn’t available to someone who could potentially use it against him. Especially if their guy had been the subject of a lot of unfortunately crude and lazy ridicule throughout his campaign. For the fifteen bucks it would run them, it seems like the obvious choice.

But they didn’t buy it up. So a few weeks ago, on a whim, I bought it. And to tell you the truth, I don’t really want it.

In fact, I’d prefer to wash my hands of it as soon as possible. I didn’t even really want to mention it, for fear of it becoming a trending topic or blogosphere fodder. So let’s try and keep this on the “down low,” okay?

Here’s the thing: I love this city, and I can think of a wide range of mature, responsible and beneficial uses for this particular piece of e-property. But even if I had the time to do something great with it, I’m probably one of the last people who should.

What I would like to do is hand it off to someone who can put it to use in direct, progressive and nonpartisan service of this city. I have my own ideas on how that can be done, but of course I’m open to better ones. If you think you’re the right person, or a part of the right team of people, then I would like to hear from you. If you want to make a bunch of fat jokes, or Photoshop a bunch of Hitler moustaches on a duly elected mayor, then you’re probably better off creating another lame Twitter account.

At the time of this writing, the domain name in question should redirect back to this post. If you’re reading this in the future, and the link takes you somewhere else, then the people behind that site are the owners of the domain now, and they deserve all the credit and blame for whatever they’ve done with it.

What did they do with it, by the way? Is it a good site? Did I make the right decision? Let me know, future readers.

Anyway, there it is. Please take this thing off my hands and do something positive and not at all embarrassing with it. I look forward to hearing from you!

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