Look What The Dog Dragged In
It’s funny, the way our personalized digital media so often begins to resemble how we act, and interact, in real life. Developers and strategists delight — that’s their goal: to create an open, widespread platform to bring people together in a massive, human-like community.
Still, it has its downsides, such as feeling socially awkward on your own blog, and uncomfortably writing an “I’m back” piece; especially when, in the end, the readership is so limited. If a mea culpa falls in the woods, and no one is there to read it, is it really blogged? Or something like that.
In any case, it’s been an eventful few months, to say the least, and so my absence from this space was not so much brought on by boredom with this spot of the internet as it was my presence in so many others (oh, and *real* life stuff, too).
To start, I moved out of Brooklyn, crashed for a few months in Jersey, and then, this past weekend, moved to Manhattan. The short sentence belies the chain of event’s complexity, both socially and logistically. Turmoil, evaluation of true friendship, real estate hunt and, finally, a lengthy wait for internet installation kept me from the self-indulgence of blogging.
Of course, my activity elsewhere on the web continued, unabated by the upsurge in events. I continue to write, edit, run social media and manage the community at 4TNZ/Bauer — we’ve established a vibrant, loyal community of diehards that act as brand ambassadors and keep bringing in users, which is our most prevalent goal.
That’s been a trip — the teens are this self-propelled community that has really bonded, a kind of best case scenario for marketers that want to build loyalty (and a whole lot of return users and time on site). Moderating and engaging them has been hilarious, and not only because I don’t exactly personally fit into their niche.
I’ve also been freelance writing, for projects personal and professional. A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post for a computer programmer that was leaving his job to go to medical school; the next day, I ghostwrote a coffee table book.
Professionally, I’ve been contributing to a number of sites, including Gawker.tv — here’s my latest, about the rise of streaming television services, such as Boxxee and GoogleTV.
Now that I’m settled in, and with internet in my apartment (thanks to the Time Warner guy who waited a full 45 minutes for me to return from work, I owe you my life), I’ll continue the freelancing, for both social media and writing.
Also, I’ll probably start posting stuff that has to do with Pokemon again, along with my new obsession with Charles Bukowski. And the World Cup. I love the World Cup.
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