Gonna give blogging another shot. I gave it a shot one time but I realized just how incredibly weak it was and shut it down. I think I made a total of 2 or 3 blog posts and just felt like it wasn't my time for this yet. Now, I feel like it's time I get with it and that maybe it's just another progression I need to make.
Allow me to give a brief history of exactly how I got here. I have my own message board that is going on it's 4th year now, http://comiccrack.proboards.com/ . It began originally as a message board with no direction. I called it "Gotta Start Somewhere". Yeah, it's a stupid name, but it's how I felt at the time. I didn't know anything about anything dealing with running a message board. I had been one of those people who visited message boards for years. I was following one such board when the admin decided to put it on hiatus. I wanted him to keep it running. I even asked him to keep it up. Instead, he pointed me at a Proboards link and told me if I wanted, I could make one myself. Feeling just slightly insulted, I decided....why not me? So "Gotta Start Somewhere" was born. Trouble was, I didn't know what I wanted to make it about. I had been a near lifelong collector of comic books, but I didn't feel capable of running a site about comic books. Too many out there. I thought those who've done it, would do it better. So in a moment of insanity, I decided to make it about things men would most likely be interested in. You know, Sports, Women, Work, things of that nature. I threw comic books into it because I knew I could easily talk about that. I thought I had built this jack of all trades message board. It officially opened on July 14, 2007. I can still hear the crickets. Amazingly, I had a few good people come aboard. One became someone who helped me create the look and functionality of my board. He has the moniker of Underdog. I am absolutely grateful he came aboard and helped me. The other was the person who got it started in the first place. The man who told me to go make one myself. He is known as defiant1. Some of you may know him. He would end up being my toughest critic, but he would also give me some good advice. Namely, I couldn't make a site about everything. People aren't going to search the internet for just anything. Reluctantly I agreed.
Slowly but surely I turned my board into what I knew best, a board about comic books. Something I had done since the April 1978 issue of Uncanny X-Men #110. Something I felt I could really talk about. That focus changing conversation has led me onto the path where I am now. Since then, I have changed the name from "Gotta Start Somewhere" to "Comic Crack". Bought my own Domain, created a front page landing page which I certainly want to make better one day... http://www.comiccrack.com/, started my own Facebook page and also started a Twitter account. I can't say I'm successful at any of this, but I'm still at it. I'm constantly thinking of how to expand my role and make my tiny piece of the internet, just slightly bigger. I've decided it's time I try this blogging again. I don't know exactly what I'm going to accomplish, but it's time I learned this side of things as well. This time I hope to stick with it much like I have my message board. Just like then, I have a lot to learn. I guess I feel now like I did then, I need to throw caution to the wind and just do it. I just "Gotta Start Somewhere".
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