Ideafication

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.