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okay, so, yesterday, FlyinFox figured it to be a good idea
to "tag" me to do a piece about blogging. specifically,
"5 Reasons Why I Blog". I think this is what they call a "MeMe".
okay, I'm game.
suppose, though, we do a little legwork before we begin?
first of all, I do not consider myself a true blogger.
I write donald james simpson / unbalanced on a daily basis, and the approach is that of writing short entries to a photo-humor column. this ties in directly with reason #1, and said reason is posted in a disclaimer in the sidebar of my main page, which says, "donald james simpson / unbalanced 'heinous crimes against all of humanity' is a not-for-profit site, conceived to develop I.T. skills, and as a creative outlet. advertising is in exchange for free tools and / or services." quote, unquote. the fact of the matter is, I do this first and foremost as a learnig tool for IT and computer skills; and, to be perfectly frank, it works. I have abilities now I don't think I could have even imagined, say 3 years ago. so, anyway, when I started this site, I needed subject matter, so I decided to do humor posts, and the primary subject matter is (drum roll, please) the internet itself, usually poking fun at image searches, chain emails, chat forums... you know, the usual internet stuff, with a little bit of Socio-Political commentary on occasion, as well as some small doses of genuine blogging, frequently using photos of myself in odd situations or locations- having spent the last 3 years working for a nationwide consulting firm has afforded me ample opportunities for such photos.
now, let me add this: that one reason alone is plenty enough for me to do this; that being said, I have found some other reasons why I continue, so here goes the rest of the list...
2) shock value. I have a very dry, sick and dark sense of humor. I write for me, and me alone; everybody else is welcome to come along for the ride, if they like. I always allow comments, as I've always loved the interaction involved with that; but, hey, where else do I get a free forum to post a graphic of a Pope-On-A-Rope Tampon, if not here? yup, shocking. by the way, I have had a personal report that my work on unbalanced has actually forced a woman to tears of horror. oh, the fucking humanity.
3) might as well chalk this up to vanity. I have on several occasions helped other bloggers with technical items, and I get a good deal of compliments on my site layout, which I've put countless hours of design work into. both of those scenarios pretty much give me a boner.
4) it is an immense challenge to come up with fresh material on a day-in, day-out basis. I am nearly constantly grabbing the funny, sick and unusual images I run across on the internet; said images go into a large cache, where most stay for awhile. some get filtered out to smaller caches for "feature" serial posts, or the Sunday Big Blog, which is a larger (and conceptualized) version of my daily posts. occasinally, they get deleted, but most get used over time. I also sometimes post photos or graphics that are emailed to me by readers.
5) growth. since I began unbalanced nearly 2 years ago, I have gone from a readership of 2 (including myself), to a core of regular readers of about 40-50, and semi-regular readers of about 80-100. I get a lot of hits from blogger.com, and the stats associated with my site are untouched. it has grown from a single page to a main page with 5 sub-pages: Doctor Chip's Psychotic Test Page (just that, mind you), Unbalanced Images (a cyber-photo gallery), Psychobabble (my essay page - you are here now), Abra-Cadaver (a Bravenet hosted site consisting of photos which may get me kicked off of blogger); also, there's a FAQs page, and I administer Infrastructure (a diary of a recording project, although temporarily on hold), and I have purchased my own webspace, where I have my own URL, and I primarily use that as a hosting ground for the file types that you can't get free storage on, at least of any significance as far as bandwidth. the Sunday Big Blog itself has it's own URL now, as it took too much bandwidth on my main page, otherwise. oh, did I mention I have my own Chat Room? no, I guess not. in fact, the Chat Room of Death has not yet been unveiled.
or, did I just unveil it?
yup, I did, methinks.
okay, so to top this thing off, the icing on the cake, so to speak...
... here's my list of people I am tagging to do one of these,
"5 Reasons Why I Blog"....
Nigel St.John Regina Smegmatica Howle-Raines
MargieMix
Twit
the Mohawk Chieftain
RockDog
Cyber-Legend CJ Sorg
there you have it.
ciao!
B-)
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~ I ' M ~ I T ! ! ~
okay, so, yesterday, FlyinFox figured it to be a good idea
to "tag" me to do a piece about blogging. specifically,
"5 Reasons Why I Blog". I think this is what they call a "MeMe".
okay, I'm game.
suppose, though, we do a little legwork before we begin?
first of all, I do not consider myself a true blogger.
I write donald james simpson / unbalanced on a daily basis, and the approach is that of writing short entries to a photo-humor column. this ties in directly with reason #1, and said reason is posted in a disclaimer in the sidebar of my main page, which says, "donald james simpson / unbalanced 'heinous crimes against all of humanity' is a not-for-profit site, conceived to develop I.T. skills, and as a creative outlet. advertising is in exchange for free tools and / or services." quote, unquote. the fact of the matter is, I do this first and foremost as a learnig tool for IT and computer skills; and, to be perfectly frank, it works. I have abilities now I don't think I could have even imagined, say 3 years ago. so, anyway, when I started this site, I needed subject matter, so I decided to do humor posts, and the primary subject matter is (drum roll, please) the internet itself, usually poking fun at image searches, chain emails, chat forums... you know, the usual internet stuff, with a little bit of Socio-Political commentary on occasion, as well as some small doses of genuine blogging, frequently using photos of myself in odd situations or locations- having spent the last 3 years working for a nationwide consulting firm has afforded me ample opportunities for such photos.
now, let me add this: that one reason alone is plenty enough for me to do this; that being said, I have found some other reasons why I continue, so here goes the rest of the list...
2) shock value. I have a very dry, sick and dark sense of humor. I write for me, and me alone; everybody else is welcome to come along for the ride, if they like. I always allow comments, as I've always loved the interaction involved with that; but, hey, where else do I get a free forum to post a graphic of a Pope-On-A-Rope Tampon, if not here? yup, shocking. by the way, I have had a personal report that my work on unbalanced has actually forced a woman to tears of horror. oh, the fucking humanity.
3) might as well chalk this up to vanity. I have on several occasions helped other bloggers with technical items, and I get a good deal of compliments on my site layout, which I've put countless hours of design work into. both of those scenarios pretty much give me a boner.
4) it is an immense challenge to come up with fresh material on a day-in, day-out basis. I am nearly constantly grabbing the funny, sick and unusual images I run across on the internet; said images go into a large cache, where most stay for awhile. some get filtered out to smaller caches for "feature" serial posts, or the Sunday Big Blog, which is a larger (and conceptualized) version of my daily posts. occasinally, they get deleted, but most get used over time. I also sometimes post photos or graphics that are emailed to me by readers.
5) growth. since I began unbalanced nearly 2 years ago, I have gone from a readership of 2 (including myself), to a core of regular readers of about 40-50, and semi-regular readers of about 80-100. I get a lot of hits from blogger.com, and the stats associated with my site are untouched. it has grown from a single page to a main page with 5 sub-pages: Doctor Chip's Psychotic Test Page (just that, mind you), Unbalanced Images (a cyber-photo gallery), Psychobabble (my essay page - you are here now), Abra-Cadaver (a Bravenet hosted site consisting of photos which may get me kicked off of blogger); also, there's a FAQs page, and I administer Infrastructure (a diary of a recording project, although temporarily on hold), and I have purchased my own webspace, where I have my own URL, and I primarily use that as a hosting ground for the file types that you can't get free storage on, at least of any significance as far as bandwidth. the Sunday Big Blog itself has it's own URL now, as it took too much bandwidth on my main page, otherwise. oh, did I mention I have my own Chat Room? no, I guess not. in fact, the Chat Room of Death has not yet been unveiled.
or, did I just unveil it?
yup, I did, methinks.
okay, so to top this thing off, the icing on the cake, so to speak...
... here's my list of people I am tagging to do one of these,
"5 Reasons Why I Blog"....
Nigel St.John Regina Smegmatica Howle-Raines
MargieMix
Twit
the Mohawk Chieftain
RockDog
Cyber-Legend CJ Sorg
there you have it.
ciao!
B-)
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~ I ' M ~ I T ! ! ~
okay, so, yesterday, FlyinFox figured it to be a good idea
to "tag" me to do a piece about blogging. specifically,
"5 Reasons Why I Blog". I think this is what they call a "MeMe".
okay, I'm game.
suppose, though, we do a little legwork before we begin?
first of all, I do not consider myself a true blogger.
I write donald james simpson / unbalanced on a daily basis, and the approach is that of writing short entries to a photo-humor column. this ties in directly with reason #1, and said reason is posted in a disclaimer in the sidebar of my main page, which says, "donald james simpson / unbalanced 'heinous crimes against all of humanity' is a not-for-profit site, conceived to develop I.T. skills, and as a creative outlet. advertising is in exchange for free tools and / or services." quote, unquote. the fact of the matter is, I do this first and foremost as a learnig tool for IT and computer skills; and, to be perfectly frank, it works. I have abilities now I don't think I could have even imagined, say 3 years ago. so, anyway, when I started this site, I needed subject matter, so I decided to do humor posts, and the primary subject matter is (drum roll, please) the internet itself, usually poking fun at image searches, chain emails, chat forums... you know, the usual internet stuff, with a little bit of Socio-Political commentary on occasion, as well as some small doses of genuine blogging, frequently using photos of myself in odd situations or locations- having spent the last 3 years working for a nationwide consulting firm has afforded me ample opportunities for such photos.
now, let me add this: that one reason alone is plenty enough for me to do this; that being said, I have found some other reasons why I continue, so here goes the rest of the list...
2) shock value. I have a very dry, sick and dark sense of humor. I write for me, and me alone; everybody else is welcome to come along for the ride, if they like. I always allow comments, as I've always loved the interaction involved with that; but, hey, where else do I get a free forum to post a graphic of a Pope-On-A-Rope Tampon, if not here? yup, shocking. by the way, I have had a personal report that my work on unbalanced has actually forced a woman to tears of horror. oh, the fucking humanity.
3) might as well chalk this up to vanity. I have on several occasions helped other bloggers with technical items, and I get a good deal of compliments on my site layout, which I've put countless hours of design work into. both of those scenarios pretty much give me a boner.
4) it is an immense challenge to come up with fresh material on a day-in, day-out basis. I am nearly constantly grabbing the funny, sick and unusual images I run across on the internet; said images go into a large cache, where most stay for awhile. some get filtered out to smaller caches for "feature" serial posts, or the Sunday Big Blog, which is a larger (and conceptualized) version of my daily posts. occasinally, they get deleted, but most get used over time. I also sometimes post photos or graphics that are emailed to me by readers.
5) growth. since I began unbalanced nearly 2 years ago, I have gone from a readership of 2 (including myself), to a core of regular readers of about 40-50, and semi-regular readers of about 80-100. I get a lot of hits from blogger.com, and the stats associated with my site are untouched. it has grown from a single page to a main page with 5 sub-pages: Doctor Chip's Psychotic Test Page (just that, mind you), Unbalanced Images (a cyber-photo gallery), Psychobabble (my essay page - you are here now), Abra-Cadaver (a Bravenet hosted site consisting of photos which may get me kicked off of blogger); also, there's a FAQs page, and I administer Infrastructure (a diary of a recording project, although temporarily on hold), and I have purchased my own webspace, where I have my own URL, and I primarily use that as a hosting ground for the file types that you can't get free storage on, at least of any significance as far as bandwidth. the Sunday Big Blog itself has it's own URL now, as it took too much bandwidth on my main page, otherwise. oh, did I mention I have my own Chat Room? no, I guess not. in fact, the Chat Room of Death has not yet been unveiled.
or, did I just unveil it?
yup, I did, methinks.
okay, so to top this thing off, the icing on the cake, so to speak...
... here's my list of people I am tagging to do one of these,
"5 Reasons Why I Blog"....
Nigel St.John Regina Smegmatica Howle-Raines
MargieMix
Twit
the Mohawk Chieftain
RockDog
Cyber-Legend CJ Sorg
there you have it.
ciao!
B-)
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6 Comments:
You will never be alone,open the window,you will find more sunshine.
I should spank'a yer hieny Dr. Chip. =O)
I'll try and get it posted tomorrow if I don't overdose tonight.
Good Dr. Chip, I have completed my 5 and hopefully you'll find them contextual, inappropriate, and maybe even just a little disturbing. I know I did, and for God's sake I have to live with myself. More's the pity...
Piro- glad you enjoyed the post!
zx- if I find out that's Orange Sunshine you're in deep shit...
Margie! glad to see you have more time now, you've been missed. hopefully, you have things in order with the couple you care for.
looking forward to your list!
Nigel- I'm sure you'll deliver without disappointment, you always do! oh, and the more graphic, the better!
B-)
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Very nice! Thank you Dr. Chip.
Flyinfox_SATX
Blogger philosophy? :)
Cheers!
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