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Sunday, November 14, 2010
The Top Ten Mountain Photos (Revisited)
Since I deleted my old blog, I thought I'd take the oppurtunity to post the top 10 mountain photos again, this time with a few adjustments. I am thinking about making "top ten photos" a regular posting theme. What do you guys think? What is your favorite photo?
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Famous for Dishing about those Famous for Being Famous
To find out what makes a successful blog, I decided I had to take a look at the masters. Probably the most famous blogger out there is Perez Hilton. His secret for success isn’t rocket science. As a whole we are a celebrity obsessed culture, therefore writing a post about a celebrity will get a lot more hits than writing about say your neighbor Donna. But is being a celebrity an invitation to be verbally eviscerated with kindergartenesque scribbles in Photoshop, often over rumors that are untrue or the very least unverified? And would I want to increase my audience with this kind of content anyway? Ah, who cares, it’s a blog, not a Brief History of Time. So here it is Perez. How does it feel to have the tables turned?
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Friday, November 12, 2010
The Shane Dawson Generation
It’s amazing to see a former dispensable Jenny Craig employee turn into an internet superstar-and make a career out of it. Which made me started thinking about the ways I could make money online, or if it was even possible for me at all. Sorting through all the options out there, many of which are scams that promise you a fortune for a small upfront fee to buy their miracle product, I began to wonder if this was just a pipe dream. After all, who says “I want to be a professional blogger when I grow up?” Or a “youtube sensation?” Or “I want to make millions off the internet by doing nothing at all?” Okay, well I bet a lot of you say that last one.
Anyways, I knew I didn’t want to be a youtube star, because that would require me losing my anonymity, the one precious resource I could always count on. And with virtually no video editing skills, I don’t think it would be even possible for me anyway. I have tried paid survey sites like InboxDollars and Zoombucks, so I can tell you they are not worth your time, if you’re thinking about it. The best way to make money online: blog. Or at least I think so, as this will be my first post. Peddling my fine art to people who simply don’t want or can’t afford just isn’t working anymore.
So, what do you think about Shane Dawson, Natalie Tran and the like? Will “youtube personality” become a career; just a blogging has become one? Will there be schools that teach their students how to get the most hits online, which advertising services to partner with, etc.? I could never even have dreamed of blogging as a career when I was a child, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see something even more absurd mark the next generation of digital ‘vocations.’
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