Category: Blogging

I created a new page on the site. Prose page.  I’ve pasted some short stories that I’ve written three to be exact. It’s funny that the there is short story for years 2004,2005, and 2006.  Don’t know what happened 2007(I think , Ok I’m sure I got rejected  and It really took me awhile as in probably 2 years to be partially healed). These aren’t all I’ve written these past days but these were at least almost finished.  Funny but further inspecting my files I’ve written quite a few stories about a great many things , mostly (dreams,loneliness,joy,happiness,despair, etc).  I think my problems with non-romantic emotions  are that feelings of joy,loneliness, etc change to drastically and I can’t seem to muster it enough to create. Need to be more disciplined!

Spent the better part of the day on this redesign.
I used a new theme (color green has grown on me).
I customized most of the settings, even the ads.
Hope you like the changes.
I was inspired by seeing this quote

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Victor Hugo
French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

I’ve been so absorbed in thought lately that I was questioning myself. I did this because the invisible labor was weighing me down. I wanted to do something, anything that I could see.
Once again, Hope you like the changes!
Loved listening to this:

I am not earning from my blog, through experiments I’ve seen ways of earning with simple changes in what I post. I write because I love writing, I blog because i’ve continually interacted with people who have enrich my life. I blog because I want to share. Money almost always changes everything, and oft times things become all for the the love of money. Like all great gold rush, and with the help of the invisible hand the money well will dry and the endless september of the blogging will finally begone!
from Doc Searls blog here:

What I don’t like is the corrupting influence of the advertising economy itself.
Right now online advertising is a river of gold flowing out of the ground in California, and millions of bloggers — along with countless new and traditional businesses — are rushing to grab some. In addition to the other economy-distorting consequences of this rush, it is corrupting blogging’s original nature, which is amateur in the best sense or the word. Amateur is derived from amatorem, the Latin word for lover.
I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with making money by blogging. I am saying there’s something wrong with blogging mostly to make money, or to let advertising determine the purpose of your blog and what you say with it. If your business is the latter, you’re flogging, not blogging.
There is an old and subtle distinction here. Businesses and professions at their best are ways to pursue passions and organize talents — not just to make money. Of course they can’t thrive unless they make money. But few of us go into business just saying “I can’t wait to return value to my shareholders.” Investors are the main exceptions, but the best of those know that human passions other than greed are at the heart of every good business.

Sometimes form is an art unto itself! Think Comedy!
but often times people write just to write. There is nothing wrong with this.
The thing is at least once a week we should try to write something we are proud of, to at least try to fool ourselves that we are trying to do write something worthwhile!
from the Overcoming Bias blog here:

If you just want to look insightful yourself, then you’ll want to ape insight like everyone else.  Use big words, attend to anal formatting rules, use many citations in academic articles, clever turns of phrase in popular articles, and so on.  In literary articles give many quotes, in science articles show many data tables and statistical tests, etc.
But if you actually want to be insightful, you face a harder problem.  Once you realize that most folks are merely aping surface features thought to correlate with insight, you see that doing this yourself may not actually help you to be insightful.  You may face a choice between looking insightful and being insightful. Yes for some factors that correlate with insight, increasing your score on such factors will tend to cause you to be insightful, but for many other factors such an increase will reduce or have no effect on your insight.