Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Saturday, August 07, 2004 The Pitch: It's Like Blah, Blah, Blah meets Yakkity-Yakkity-Yak! No post since Thursday? Really? Yikes.I guess it makes sense. A lot of spare time over the last couple of days has been gobbled up by converting my old fanboy rampage columns and putting them up at the CE site--I think I more than doubled the number of columns available since there's something like 48 of them now available. I'm kind of annoyed with myself for not posting them sooner--like, when they were written--because I think humor as a rule ages very, very quickly. I'm really not sure how many of these things effective anymore, whereas if they had been put up within, oh, six months or so of being written, I think they'd be more effective. So my new "secret" resolution is to put these puppies up within two weeks of publication. With the new Savage Critic taking up absoutely no time (unless I contribute my own reviews), I think I'll be a little more willing to do so. With the end of free email hosting in sight for lazybastard.com, I now need to figure out what's to be done there. I think I'm gonna also push it over to lunarpages and pay about eight bucks a month to have it hosted. Which is great, but really pushes the question: what am I gonna do with the site? What's nice is I'll be able to publish the blog on lazybastard, but, you know, I should probably do a little more with the site than that. Or should I? I wasn't particularly active in contributing to the site before Nano, but doing Nano really pushed my writing into a whole different area. I find writing book and film reviews enjoyable (at least initially) and I think it's safe to say it's one of my strengths as a writer, but is it what I want to be doing with the rest of my life? The rest of my writing life? No, no, no, no. I think if there's a reason why blogs are so successful, it's because they are websites boiled down to their essentials: Here's what I think. (Or these days: here's what I took a digital photo of.) There's no reason why I couldn't take all my movie reviews, turn them into blog entries, and add news ones as I go along. I wouldn't lose anything except images and some clever roll-over text. Sadly, I do, however, like putting images with my writing. That graphic on top of the Sergei section? That's neat. But neat enough to keep coming back to my site and pumping it with content periodically to keep people coming--or, at least, to stave off the emails saying, "Hey, you lazy bastard, why don't you update your site?" To spend the time finding the image, inserting the image, inserting the text? I. Do. Not. Know. Lunch time. Maybe if it's quiet when I get back, I can talk about Road a little. posted by Jeff Lester | 7:00 PM | |
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