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Cailfornia, you f**ked up big time regarding prop 8

November 12th, 2008 — politics, serious business

Last Tuesday (November 4th) we all made history by electing Barack Obama as president. However, at the same time, we fucked up tremendously.

In California (and several other states), gay people do not have to right to marry. Due to certain propositions, mainly #8 in California passing, numerous gay civil unions are in jeopardy.

If you happened to have supported any of these initiatives, please go and fuck your self. I really do mean that sincerely.

If you could you would probably vote way rights for minorities or repeal voting rights for women. In voting for these horrible initiatives you basically approved discrimination at the governmental level.

I am especially disappointed at any fellow black person who may have voted Yes on any one of those propositions. Speaking from experience, I know that homosexuality is not supported in the black community. It upsets me that such views are reinforced by some black churches.

I don’t like to get all preachy, but we all need to condemn this. We cannot let religious extremists to continue to make things worse for gays. If they can succeed at banning gay marriage, then it could possibly lead to further discrimination to others.

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My Twitter follow rules.

November 2nd, 2008 — SOCIAHL MEDIAAAH, serious business, unwarranted self importance

I have seen an increase in people “unfollowing” me and also “following” me on twitter. A vast majority of you are cool, but some of you will probably not get along with me.
So I just want to get you a heads up on what I mainly twitter about and what makes me unfollow you.

For Starters I curse a lot and use a lot of internet slang. For example I abuse the meme “Over 9000” a LOT. I will also refer to the internet as “internets”. If you hate that, please GTFO. I can’t help having a dirty mouth and I will not censor myself for anyone.

I frequently talk about the following: The Rangers, Mets, sometimes Jets. If you are a fan of their rivals, it is almost guaranteed that I will shit on them at any opportunity. ESPECIALLY the Phillies and Islanders. Its in good clean fun…with a lot of profanity of course.
I tend to be left leaning in politics, but I really don’t mind people who are conservative. What I DO mind is when people debate politics by referring to words like “Socialist”, “Communist” or using “Liberal” in a negative tone. If you cannot debate civilly then I will promptly unfollow you. I already ignore Fox News in my real life. I prefer not have it on my twitter stream. Please don’t be surprised if I unfollow you because of that.
Please don’t be 100% promotional. While its ok to post a link to your blog entries, I also prefer if you interact with your followers as well. Unless you have a powerful brand like Wine Library TV, don’t bother making a twitter account just full of blog updates. Like Gary Vaynerchuk said, don’t be like Britney Spears.

For anyone who decides to follow ME, I will usually follow you back…IF your stream interests me. I am easy to please, but I find things like “SEO make money online” boring and trite. Obviously don’t be a spammer either. (They probably wouldn’t read this anyway, but it goes without saying.)

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In response to Mr Boutin, blogging is NOT DEAD.

October 21st, 2008 — SOCIAHL MEDIAAAH, serious business

The blogosphere is a blaze about this latest piece written by Paul Boutin of Valleywag.com. For those who don’t know, valleywag is a blog that is a Gawker spin off that criticizes (often in humorous fashion) on how Silicon Valley operates.

Why I blog and why blogging is still important:

As noted in previous entries, only in February I started to seriously blog after being hampered by the closed off environment of live journal and the massive idiocy of YouTube.

I really enjoy blogging and I still feel that it can be a great way to communicate. It is even more important for niches and communities that are not represented in the mainstream media.

For example, my favorite sport Hockey hasn’t been represented well in the US mainstream sports media. Hockey bloggers are the key voice instead of uninterested newspaper departments who are laying off hockey writers.

I also love reading bloggers from a black perspective from time to time. Their voices and writing is not representative in the mainstream media. Blogging or the “Afrospear” give black people of all strides a voice.

The reality of blogging.

I definitely agree that blogging is saturated in the popular niches such as Technology and Social media. I don’t think the marketplace needs another gadget blog or another person telling us how “SOCIAHL MEDIAAAH” is awesome. Blogging is also not a quick way to get rich.

Very few blogs, if any are self sustainable to generate income to make a living. Numerous blogger wannabes think if they read ProBlogger everyday, learn SEO, slap on a few google ads, they’ll retire rich.

As with any field, only the ones who work hard and who are fortunate enough to be successful. When I started to blog for fun it was to enhance my writing skills and of course, get my opinion out.

I will soon launch a blog on black issues and maybe put some ads there. I don’t expect to earn much from it. At most I’ll make enough for the $50 a year I pay in hosting and maybe some beer money.

Dealing with morons on blogs.

Mr Boutin and others were upset at the quality of commenters. On my blog I don’t tolerate idiots. If you can’t spell or if you veer off topic simply GTFO. All bloggers can and should lay down the law. Its your blog, kick the riff raff out.

Personally I still think Jason Calacanis shouldn’t have “retired” from blogging. Who cares if people disagree with you. If he can create a sucessful blog network, then he can take criticism (of course he has every right to eject anyone who is disrespectful.)

The importance of Twitter, Facebook and etc.

Twitter and Facebook are great tools in their own right. Twitter has pretty much replaced livejournal for times if I wanted to say something quickly. Facebook is great for connecting with my existing friends. However both are not substitutes for blogging. Blogs are perfect for me say something in long form. You cannot express complex points in a 140 character twitter message.

Facbook itself is not a good medium to blog or even network with strangers. Personally I am probably going to cut down on the “friends” I have. (That’s another entry for another time). There are too many distractions to even have a quality conversation.

Conclusion

Blogging is still a young medium. It still has time to grow and mature. To write it off is just moronic. I hope wannabe bloggers see the harsh cold realities of running a blog. You should not have dollar signs in your eyes and just do it for fun.

While your voice is important, realize that you are in a sea of similar people. Many of them are not passionate at all and they will wither out. Only the strong will survive.

The link in question.

Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004

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