Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Tuesday, August 24, 2004 The Pitch: It's like Behind The Green Door meets The Hudsucker Proxy! You wouldn't think PHP is a very sexy thing, would you? I wouldn't either, and yet 20 minutes spent reading The Beginner's Guide to PHP that I picked up on sale at Red Hill was enough to give me giddy unending dreams of, I swear, coding my website in PHP. The only thing I remember is setting up some sort of frame for a conversation that Edi and I were having, so that a microphone would record what we were saying, an audiotext converter would transcribe it, the computer would upload it, and it would be a sidebar to all my web pages. And that's the only dream I remember, other than getting up to pee and having a very clear memory of speaking aloud the phrase "style sheets." Eerie.On a related note (since it's about both style sheets and creepiness), Blogger is offering me the chance to run ads on my blog. I have to admit, part of me thinks, "hmmm... rich, you say?" Part of me wonders how bad it would actually be if people could actually click on an ad selling Aventurera or Ong Bak after reading my reviews and suddenly they've got a great movie they never heard about before. And part of me is disgusted both at my greed, Blogger's disingenuous "We're going to start paying bloggers" announcement, and the idea that I'd whore my blog out for a nickel. Now these are, I'm assuming, the relatively non-descript Googleads I've been seeing everywhere and as a web viewer, I've got to say, I don't mind them. They're fine. They're not pop-ups, after all. I'm too sleepy to follow this train of thought to its end stop. My original intention was to log on and talk about my stupid dreams of PHP, and how I "updated" my website by removing my dilapidated husk of a links page, my novel, and blocked image leeches. Now, I have another web-problem on my mind: what, if anything, does embracing an "amateur" status to my blog and website actually mean? That I'm idealistic? Or that I'll never be a professional? posted by Jeff Lester | 8:20 AM | |
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