Melting Into the Webisphere

Yup. I may as well upload my consciousness into the Internet now.

Lemme back up a bit. My blogging (here anyway) has been tapering off pretty steadily since I started. Which is to be expected I suppose. Makes sense. When I started, I had a lot to say. Now I’ve said most of it. The only stuff left is what occurs to me as I go. Which isn’t much, really.

Or rather, it is a lot, but it’s very diffused over many outlets. Maybe that’s the problem. Hm. Just occured to me to wonder what, exactly, the problem is. Hits, I guess. I publish because I want an audience. I’m totally guilty of obssessing over my page hits for about a day after I post anything.

And I want more Twitter followers.

My name is Jason King and I am an attention addict.

Ah! There we are. Some real honesty. None of this is any kind of real problem at all. Not the kind that matters anyway. I do a lot of different things and they all have different audiences. I guess I should be happy that I can connect to so many people in so many ways. But I can’t help wanting more. It’s like this:

My band records and puts music up for download on facebook, which goes largely ignored.

I blog here and post the link through Twitter and facebook. A typical post gets around twenty-ish hits.

I have 72 Twitter followers.

And now I’m trying to maintain a separate blog and Twitter feed for my history classes. That, in itself isn’t really a problem except that I’ll be writing a lot for the history blog, further neglecting this one, and therefore not building a readership. If that’s even how readerships are built.

Every so often I think I just really need to reassess my reasons for doing any of this. I think I’ll be a lot happier about it all if I just recognize that it’s about the creative act itself. I don’t know if everyone gets this, but I was chatting with my tattoo artist (yeah, I got a guy) and we both agreed that there’s a very real sense of pressure that builds up in our skulls if we aren’t making stuff. If I were a different person, I would concentrate all that creative energy on one thing. Maybe music, maybe writing, maybe just my job. But for whatever reason, I can’t do that. I’m scattered. A little bit of everything all the time. Oh well. I is what I is.

So; to my faithful readers, thank you. I’ll be posting when I can. Things’ll probably kick into higher gear around election times. In the meantime, most of what I create can either be found at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Professor-LeStrange-and-his-Band-of-Degenerates/160384394012253?sk=app_2405167945 for music or at http://garnetandgoldhistory.wordpress.com/ for history blogging stuff.

Thanks for reading and listening. And remember; the “like” button is the new applause.