I was sent a message on Flickr today from Lan Bui from NoodleScarDaily about a comment on one of his photos. The photo was of NoodleScar sitting next to JetSet on the “featured shows” section on Blip.tv’s home page. I had commented that it was awesome that blip.tv featured shows like that on their home page and congratulated them both on that. The very next comment was from Eric M-ortensen saying that he just added “idoITdigital” to the featured show list. I was like “WTF for real?” I just happen to log into blip this evening and what did I see? Upper right hand corner of the page, what I like to call my “hero” shot. It’s an extreme honor to be among such talented people and I thank Blip.tv for giving me such an honor.
Ok, I look at myself as someone who follows others, looks up to others, and aspires to be like others. More specific, the ones who are part of the great video blogging/web 2.0 community. I have dipped my feet into this pool of people and hope to one day walk along side them as a solid member of the community. Now I know some will say I already am, but I feel as if I am years behind the rest. I only learned of video blogs no more than 9-10 months ago and started to do my own only 5. And most of the online
communities I’m a part of I found just a few months ago as well. Bottom line, I’m a n00b.
Also, it seems like “most” of the community live in California with a few others scattered in places such as Seattle, Boston, and New York. There are even some international celebs. I’ve had the opportunity to chat with some really fantastic people of this community and they’ve welcomed me with open arms. I was even given the chance to work on one of my favorite shows for a few weeks. But I’m getting there and I’m getting there with help of the community. That’s kinda how they work.
There is a point to all of this I swear.
Since I’ve started video blogging and interacting with these people whether it be commenting on one of their posts/videos/photos or exchanging emails/IMs, others have started to take notice of my own posts/videos/photos; again, kinda how it works. Now my thoughts have always been that you leave a comment and the person you are leaving the comment for in return goes to your site via the link you leave on your name. But one thing I didn’t really think about, as silly as it sounds, is the other viewers of said post also going to my site via the name link. So someone I’ve never heard of or seen comes to my site and leaves a comment on one of my posts and thus we come full circle. The point of this whole rant is that we find inspiration in many things. I find it in people. You inspire me. I want to be like you.
Perhaps I inspire others. Perhaps not. But I know I’ve helped a few and pushed some others. For example, a long time friend from college recently started his blog over at CrispyLettuce.com. He went with wordpress and asked me some questions about plugins, rss feeds, and widgets. Most of which I had learned about only months ago. He is now rocking strong with his blog.
Then there’s Paolo. A random dude who found my site via flickr. He read some of my posts, watched some of my videos, and IMed me. We chatted for about an hour where he just asked me random questions about how I started vlogging and how I chose what to do in video form versus traditional text. And as I’m having this conversation I couldn’t help but notice that most of the questions he was asking I had asked no more than 3 months earlier. Since then Paolo has put out 6-7 video blogs and he’s finding his way nicely.
And then of course there’s Mia who resides at idreamofmia.com. I’ve been talking to Mia online now for over a year and have had some good times with her. She is an uber blogger posting anywhere from 1 to 10 posts a day ranging from quick little snippets of her thoughts to long ass rants on how she needs a cock. She runs a online porn site and so most of her stuff is not for “public” viewing. So when she did a video blog a few weeks ago I told her she should do them more often because she’s funny and I think has great camera presence. So she accepted my “dare” to vlog for 7 days straight and see if she could get over her issues with it. Hell she might even like it.
Over all I’m thrilled to have that many more people doing their thing their own way with whatever help I may have provided. Perhaps I’m more apart of this community than I thought.
So, it’s been a while since I have just written something. My last few thoughts have been in video form, which is fine, I want it that way. I even have some videos I’ve shot that may never make it online. And that’s ok too. Nothing major has happened so there hasn’t been anything to post. It seems the past few weeks I haven’t been “surfing” the net. My time on here consists of reading about your lives or watching your videos. I now have 83 subscriptions that I check out daily (or whenever they update) and that takes up most of my time I spend on the net. Not that I’m complaining, just saying that there isn’t a huge need to just go “stumbling”. So what’s new?
I’m scrambling to get all my ducks in a row to make it San Jose in March but it seems like every time I try and plan something something else comes up and pushes what I want out of the way. So what else? I got a new schedule at work. Working 4 10’s which sounds like a lot but its only 2 more hours a day and I get 3 days off which is awesome. Tomorrow starting my two days off stint.
Twitter has blown up the past few days. I’ve doubled both my friends and followers. And what’s up with it not notifing you when someone starts following you? I just happen to look at the numbers on my dashboard and saw that the number had jumped up. I really like Twitter, its a combination between a blog post and an IM. It’s not as lengthy and in depth as a blog post but allows you to leave a thought. It doesn’t require a response like an IM but allows you to leave your own thoughts as a reaction to someone else’s. It has become in my opinion, more than what the creators had intended for it. It simply asks the question, “What are you doing?” and we answer with so much more.
I love my Dash. I love it and I haven’t even scratched the surface of what I can do with it. I shot a video kinda reviewing it but it was lame so I’ll attempt to shoot another one, not so lame.
There is more I want to talk about but will leave that for another time….
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