Saturday, January 31, 2004
Blog Explorations
It doesn't take long to get hooked into a thread on the internet. Today I started on the Blogger homepage, went to an article on How to get a book deal with your Blog, which led me to actor Wil Wheaton's blog (who just got a book deal due to his blog), which led me to another blog containing an article,"How to be an internet toughguy" and some doctored art masterpieces. Why the detailed trek? Because the "Something Awful" website, host of the doctored masterpieces, along with a plethora of pornographic ads in its borders, has at least one, no doubt unintentional, humorous and nearly philosophical take on the commercialization of Easter. The rest of the site is amusing in a sophomoric way, and it can be interesting to follow the blogger's writings, which meander even more so than this trek to the commercialization of Easter.
What Have We Learned?
1. Although Wil Wheaton's journalistic skills are far from polished, he actually believes that his blog is what got him a book contract. Lesser Star Trek characters than himself have gathered immediate autobiography book contracts, so his reasoning is confounded by his celebrity influence.
Still, wouldn't it be just GREAT to get a book contract from a blog?
2. There is a computer program known as NetHack that can be as addictive as Tetris. I am almost afraid to investigate this, after having spent untold days of my life playing Tetris, SimCity, Age of Empires, etc... I'm guessing that, like an alcoholic, once a game addict, always a game addict.
It doesn't take long to get hooked into a thread on the internet. Today I started on the Blogger homepage, went to an article on How to get a book deal with your Blog, which led me to actor Wil Wheaton's blog (who just got a book deal due to his blog), which led me to another blog containing an article,"How to be an internet toughguy" and some doctored art masterpieces. Why the detailed trek? Because the "Something Awful" website, host of the doctored masterpieces, along with a plethora of pornographic ads in its borders, has at least one, no doubt unintentional, humorous and nearly philosophical take on the commercialization of Easter. The rest of the site is amusing in a sophomoric way, and it can be interesting to follow the blogger's writings, which meander even more so than this trek to the commercialization of Easter.
What Have We Learned?
1. Although Wil Wheaton's journalistic skills are far from polished, he actually believes that his blog is what got him a book contract. Lesser Star Trek characters than himself have gathered immediate autobiography book contracts, so his reasoning is confounded by his celebrity influence.
Still, wouldn't it be just GREAT to get a book contract from a blog?
2. There is a computer program known as NetHack that can be as addictive as Tetris. I am almost afraid to investigate this, after having spent untold days of my life playing Tetris, SimCity, Age of Empires, etc... I'm guessing that, like an alcoholic, once a game addict, always a game addict.
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