Yep. I’ve got another video with enough views to get perks. Apparently it only needs 15,000 views now. This video is two years old, and most of the comments are people telling me I got the switch backwards. It’s true, but it might not have been. Also, it’s partially also false because I switched two of them around (and they are still that way to this day). Either way, it’s good news for my wallet. I wish my better videos got more views; it’s weird that they don’t. I think opinionated and wrong videos get more attention because people naturally feel like they need to be a possessor of knowledge. It feels good to help people or improve their life, but it’s easy to forget the context. Here’s the video, anyway:
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Well, after all these years on the web, I have finally gotten my own blog that isn’t on some blog host site. At the risk of sounding egotistical, it’s about time. Yeah, I should have done this earlier; my blogs on MySpace had the most intelligent conversations in the comments I had ever seen on that site (is that saying much?), and I’ve had moderate success on almost every medium I choose. One exception was Tumblr, some blogging site for people with attention disorders (I’m kidding… partially). It was then I became aware that the standardized blogging scene was getting stale, and I needed something more flexible, personal, and more likely to only have ads I get money for.
Things are going well on the Internet for me. I’ve had a lot of fun building a site, community, music label, and being a provider of something people use. I’m hoping it finally gets recognized by a larger audience and I can get a paycheck from Google. That would be the day, wouldn’t it? Well, it’s in the works, but it’s slow.
Speaking of ads, I recently got an invitation by YouTube/Google to have ads put on my video that I’ll get paid for. I’ve been (kind of) waiting over two years for that. My video, “38 Years in Jail For Cheating in School?” is now a “partner” video. It’s a year old, though, and I hate how close I am to the camera, but it’s making me money and it’s basically my foot in the door for becoming a full YouTube Partner, so I’m keeping it up. The thought of making money on YouTube sparked my interest again, so I made a new video for the first time in months. I’ll post that here later.
Tomorrow I get my wisdom teeth removed. Here’s hoping the change in the internal shape of my mouth allows me to sing well.
A Slide Show of my State of Mind
This blog is a slide show of my state of mind. All personal thought blogs are, really. I see too many blogs that follow an idea path and don’t ever budge. This is accompanied by a lot of comments by other people that also won’t budge (note that seeing this type of comments doesn’t mean the blog writer is unreasonable). I wasn’t liking what I saw, and I was able to take advantage of my personal observation by not being like that. I also observed that myself and everyone I’ve met for an extended period of time has had a history of being wrong, at least from time to time.
But, with this presents a problem. If I know this, and I am able to actually come to grips with that, why do I take a stance on anything at all, given it may be wrong?
It gives you, the reader, an opportunity to inform me of what I’m missing. The ability to look things up on the Internet is an amazing thing that gives today’s people a learning advantage no generation before has ever had (though some libraries I imagine were pretty fantastic). However, it’s not perfect; I’ve made many searches for information that have been disappointing. Some people know more about certain things than I do, and in order to get their point across as well as possible, the user will post or link to the best example of the idea they wish to convey that they know about. Instead of having to skim through a bunch of sub-par versions and spammy sites, I get top-quality from a reader’s perspective.
What about the four-dimensional factor, Steve? Won’t you look back on posts and say “Man, I was dumb!”?
Perhaps I will, but unlike posting drunk on Facebook, I can look back and know I was actually thinking.
There has already been an occasion where I was intellectually ousted. A reply to a post I made about racism blew away pretty much every point I had. One part in particular: “The power of racism is that it affects one’s thinking, drawing a person from objectivity and clear thinking. Racism overwrites the very reason Steve is counting on to counteract it.” – I previously had failed to identify racism as a mind virus (Man, I was dumb!). I came to realize that I’ve been banking on a social idea that counted on there being very few people with mind viruses. Racism isn’t the only one, and much of humanity is currently infected. My previous social ideas were, put simply, people unburdened by social obligations are most able and motivated to do good, productive things. Unless I can overcome the mind virus problem (and potentially others), I have to accept that based on my current information, Yvette‘s approach is better.
Is it better? I’ll have to do some research to attempt to find out if it is or isn’t. If I find enough good counter-points, I’ll be sure to bring them up. Thanks for participating in and watching my slide show.