Fifteen Minutes Of Fame

Welp, my 15 minutes of fame are now over.

It was fantastic while it lasted but now it's back to no publicity-induced sky-high hits. <sigh>

 

Blogging wasn't a commonly known thing even as recently as 2003, when I put together the Cyn City blog. Though I saw references in mainstream publications to "weblogging" there was invariably a sentence afterward explaining what that was. On a personal level, I had difficulty explaining what I was doing and in fact, was in no hurry to give up the level of anonymity that non-Interent, non blog-savvy folks provided.

That's all changed now. It seems with my family fully online, including my children, whatever is said on here may as well be said with everyone sitting in the room. Now we just need everyone to have their own blog so it doesn't feel like a one-sided conversation. :)

I did get to a sort of burned-out on blogging period--though at most maybe a week went by between postings.

Since July of this year my TypePad Blog has been monetized in my ongoing effort to augment the paltry most generous full disability check from the US government (my heart broke and they can't put it back together again).

(To the person who childed me that paid blog posts are not "real blogging," I urge you to expand your definition of blogging as between every paid post there is at least one un-paid post--often more--and photographs--which I've always used plentifully-- "don't count" as paid posts. As is often said, if you don't like it, scroll past or click away.)

I was rather chagrined however that out of the four years of posts TypePad could've chosen from they picked two paid posts --plus a post which supposedly showcased a photograph I took but though I credited the shot and used it as it's creator asked, it was referred to as " a snapshot of my life" in the blurb. I am truly grateful however that one out of the four links led to my actual work, though sadly I had un-listed it form public view as they are summer sphotgraphs.

Does it sound like I'm complaining? I'm not. Much. :p This is actually pretty frakking funny, now that I'm really thinking on it. (I was too excited before to give this stuff much thought.) So...this is how life works. The ebbing, the flowing. It's all good.

Comments

[Cyn]

Thank you muchly, Dan!

Keep posting.
I will if you will! :)

[Dan]

You're doing a great job with your blog. You make everyone feel welcome, and you provide a quirky insight to a Chicago suburbia lifestyle. Keep posting.