Saturday, March 27, 2010

I totally misunderstood the meaning of the word "blog'...

I can't believe I didn't realize it before. Blog is short for web log. I know this, and yet I treat it like it's a place where people come to see what I recommend. They don't know who I am. And that just makes me look full of myself. Maybe I am. A dreadful thought, but if it is true then I gotta say, maybe I ought to stop thinking so much of myself, it's really hurting me.

I had a conversation with Liz today. It went a little something like this:

(12:36:28 AM) Sigma386: As I was saying...
(12:36:44 AM) Sigma386: You would have to get A LOT of visitors to your site to make adsense work.
(12:36:56 AM) Sigma386: I'm lucky if I can get one in a day.
(12:38:00 AM) spitinacopsface: Yeah. But how do you get people to read your blog?
(12:38:18 AM) Sigma386: If I knew that, I would be much more successful than I am now.
(12:38:24 AM) spitinacopsface: I would say write it as if you don't have an audience at first.
(12:38:28 AM) Sigma386: I've tried linking to it on various other site.s
(12:38:34 AM) spitinacopsface: Write like my livejournal says.
(12:38:48 AM) spitinacopsface: And search for people who will want to read your entries.
(12:39:01 AM) spitinacopsface: Like look at my huge list of followers and friends on livejournal.
(12:39:07 AM) Sigma386: I have a link to it on Facebook and Mylot.
(12:39:09 AM) spitinacopsface: I found some of them, many of them found me
(12:39:41 AM) spitinacopsface: And many are people who don't share my views or interests but see my enteries as art and read them like they would read like william burroughs or something.
(12:39:59 AM) spitinacopsface: So estabilish something like I used to have on livejournal.
(12:40:14 AM) spitinacopsface: get it so people all want to read for the sake or reading it, as friends or fans,
(12:40:33 AM) spitinacopsface: and don't write about what they might want to hear, just write about every thought you have
(12:41:00 AM) spitinacopsface: I mean I see successful blogs, and that's how they always are if they're not technical info about really specific stuff.
(12:41:27 AM) Sigma386: Mine isn't about anything in particular.
(12:41:37 AM) spitinacopsface: just like some normal person blogs about fighing with her boyfriend and getting diarrhea from the sushi she ate, and people are interestd for whatever reason.
(12:41:45 AM) Sigma386: Recently I did a review of the Alice in Wonderland movie.
(12:42:29 AM) Sigma386: My friend Chris took me to see that.
(12:42:34 AM) spitinacopsface: with me, my writiing is art, and my life is art, and just telling about my day give people something they'd never live themselves and since it is real and not being written for the readers at all it amazes them
(12:42:36 AM) Sigma386: It wasn't that bad...
(12:44:22 AM) Sigma386: Yeah, that's the problem, I guess, I don't think that anyone will be interested in like small shit like that.
(12:44:33 AM) Sigma386: But I guess I'm wrong.

So I think I'm going to change the way I write this. This blog is going to be more blog-like; A journal that I write to. I'm actually sort of afraid, though, people are going to see parts of me that I keep hidden away, stuff that I'm ashamed of. I have a lot of things I'm ashamed of... But, if I don't do this, I'll be stuck in some dead-end job, probably flipping burgers or cleaning someone else's mess. I'm worth more than that, I can read at an advanced level, I'm good at arithmetic and some algebra, and I can actually pick up new ideas fairly easily if I try. So I'd rather be happy and write this blog and make money doing that than doing some degrading job, wearing a uniform and being a tool for the corporation.

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