Meta thoughts on best public venue.
So I need to let you in on a little secret. Actually it’s not really a secret but something I am currently pondering and am not really sure the best solution yet.
I’ll start with the end result I’d like and work backwards:
I want a simple single source place to put all my output that in someway is deemed to be viewable by the public.
This includes everything I create whether it be programming related, personal rants, photographs, drawings, stories, music, collages…whatever.
The obvious solution is to just have 1 blog where all content is posted.
Simple enough right? In theory I really like that idea and I suppose I am working up to that but what happens when I am in my current situation: Seeking full time coding employment. How would a song about drinking shit through a curly straw fly when I am also presenting myself to the world…professionally? (No I don’t have a song about that but you get the point).
So if I put everything on the same site, my life is easy: I have 1 place to put stuff, find it later, move around, etc. BUT then all my split personalities are in one place and it makes for my own PR being compromised.
Really I am back to a dilemma I’ve been wrestling with for a while.
My motivation in my earlier days was more for the purity of my art. I felt like keeping myself anonymous was the only way I could ensure what I was creating was not compromised.
To repeat myself in a different way: I didn’t want the expectations of others creeping into my mind while creating stuff and then affecting my behaviors and thereby fucking up the art.
Or to simplify it even more: I didn’t want to be a sellout. But that doesn’t capture the nuances of my problem.
So now, after …all these years… I am confident and comfortable with the honesty of my creativity and general ‘output’. Being in an anonymous cave or in public I create pretty much the same way.
That is good. Yay. I’m proud of myself. I no longer need to hide in the shadows to allow myself to barf my inerts instinctively. The conditioning on this brain of mine has been overcome and the body and mind can behave as it intuitively wants.
But I digress…
Now my problem is: How do I be my own PR agent without that becoming my full-time job.
I figure this posting is a good thing. My general rule for this site as the titles suggests is ‘civilized me’. This includes problems like this. So as a reader you may say, ‘Fuck it. Just do what you want and let the cards fall where they may.’
And I say to that, ‘I’m working on it.’
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Band names are good.
Author pseudonyms are good.
But I’d like to easily be able to show all content somewhere without revealing the source of the rest of that type of content.
And by the nature of open web searches on sites, if some text is here and somewhere else, with a cut and paste and a couple clicks you can be at the other site.
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Hmm.
Any thoughts?
Feel free to email me or post here.
Thanks
