My blogs cover comics, technology, music, humor, poetry, family life, science fiction, corporate life, futurism, politics, writing and jokes about pie.
This was my job at one point — I was a professional columnist, writing for Rap Pages, MTV Online, NextPlanetOver and more — but the global economic downturn yadda yadda yadda. Now I’m a web producer by day and opinionated jackass by night when my family’s not around.
The regular stream of things going through my head got dropped through the grinder of professional training as a writer and relentless research skills and comparative analysis. These blogs *demand* to be written.
This version has been in existence since December 2000, with spin offs and a franchise in The Hundred and Four (www.hundredandfour.com).
Hh. Good question. I took out Hitbox traffic reporting in 2002, and forgot to install Google Analytics. I don’t know.
Nah. I debated adding advertising and monetizing the work, but I’m too busy researching the material in the blogs, or working, or writing, or spending time with my family. I make a decent living and haven’t been able to tear any time away to look at ways for tbis to make money on the side. My comics reviews make money, but that may be a different thing altogether.
Comics fans, stalker ex-girlfriends, fans of urban music, science fiction fans, jerks, those who find smartphones and micro SD cards fascinating, social networking mavens, my mom, Mac users, and of course people who enjoy good poetry and the weaving of words into something of wonder.
Not much. My blog can either drop six entries on you in a week or disappear for weeks at a time. When I am doing a detailed blog, I can do research for up to four hours. When I’m doing a “commentary track” on my weekly reviews at Comic Book Resources, that can get pounded out in 20 minutes if I’m in a zone. As with all things, your mileage may vary.
I have an interesting combination of a voice that’s unique, serious chops as a writer, years of experience in a variety of quite interesting industries (in the words of I believe AG, “don’t believe me then go check the resume,” which is also on my website) and interesting subject matters. Imagine you’re a woman, and you’re going out on a date with a known ladies man. No matter what actually happens, you know he’s gonna make you feel good. Oh yeah!
Write as much as you can, take the money whenever somebody offers it (I used to write my comics reviews for free on my website, now I’m on my second paid iteration of it and I make more money at it than ever before, and you can write your own history after the tears and the recriminations have settled into the dust), have consistent navigation (for the love of Sir Tim Berners-Lee), use spell-check, go for the laugh whenever you can, never choose stupidity, do whatever is most important to you and — in all ways — don’t sing it, bring it.
This blog can be visited at http://www.operative.net/archive/columns/soapbox/index.html
I’ve been reading your posts for the last couple of hours, and it all has been very informative and nicely written. I did want to let you understand that for some reason this post doesn’t appear to work in Internet Explorer. On a side note, I was wondering should you desired to swap blogroll links? I hope to hear from you soon!