Comments on Becky's T-Blog: Balancing my account

"What is a crime, I think, is not giving feedback ...

2008-04-30T17:59:00.000+01:00

"What is a crime, I think, is not giving feedback to the people who are trying to put stuff out there. I feel guilty of it too, I don't spend enough time just saying "well done" to all of the fantastic stuff that I see on the web every day."

I'm a dippy-iny-outy person, who reads what is interesting me at that time, so I admit that I tend to read this blog only when I'm feeling like dressing, then as that goes, so does my reading of this blog.

Therefore, let me take the opportunity to say that it is consistantly imaginative, creative, interesting, funny and worthy of reading. I tried a blog and failed because I can't think of enough interesting stuff to say to keep myself engaged, let alone keep a viewer there. So while I may from time to time leave a sarcastic remark, or peculiar attempt at humour, for all those other times when I leave without trace...

THANK YOU

You may not believe how many things I start to res...

2008-04-28T20:23:00.000+01:00

You may not believe how many things I start to respond to & then just fritter out & click the canel button.

Creative production has ceased for now , so I'm not sure there's much left to balance out.

But you are right on one thing there are only a few sparks of starlight in a dark sky of dogma on the net.

Yep Miss K & Siobhan were a couple of those sparks, so was Katherine Everson before she winked out without a trace one day.

Becky,I find your words haunting, due to I to read...

2008-04-28T02:08:00.000+01:00

Becky,

I find your words haunting, due to I to read Siobhan's journal and though at times it was just the mad ramblings of a creative mind, I to have missed it sent it has gone. When the net was young I had a point of light on it, then my life got busy and that went away. But in the recent days I have found my way back but it’s still at the starting stages. I’m still mostly a voyeur of what’s there to see and learn. But some changes have come into my life that I guess were there before but just now surfacing! And in that journey I have found site’s like yours and Siobhan and find that I’m not alone on that road. The incites you and others like you have been able to give me bring me great comfort, and brings light to my being as well. So keep up your writings even if you do not see it you have influenced many people, and there’s more to come. I hope to at some point to journal some of my life for others to glean from, but it’s one step at a time. Just like this post on your forum for me is a big step out of the darkness into the light of the world. So in the name of the many who read your blog’s and share in that part you share with the world that you never hear from, know we need people like you out there to help speak for the rest of us!.

Ps your Debt to the net has been paid in full.

ya know, I just think this creator thing is worth ...

2008-04-26T21:02:00.000+01:00

ya know, I just think this creator thing is worth doing even if there's no one taking note. Dig the garden and plant that veg that nobody is ever going to eat, spend nights knitting that sweater with one arm longer than the other one that no one will wear, write that blog post that nobody will ever read.

You do those things because you feel you need to. because if you don't you'll be forever thinking "why didn't i have a go at that?"

I guess it's all a question of why you blog and wh...

2008-04-26T03:02:00.000+01:00

I guess it's all a question of why you blog and who you blog for - and if those change and the end result doesn't satisfy you, then you stop blogging - pretty simple really.

The Sherlock reference made me nod. I feel that so...

2008-04-25T20:38:00.000+01:00

The Sherlock reference made me nod. I feel that sometimes it's just good to write. There's amusement/fun/interest to be had in being creative as you say.

As to running out of things to 'say', well, yes I think there's a danger of running out of statements to make. Having something to say; conversation, so to speak, is quite another matter.

From a personal point of view I don't just blog. I've got software out there (no names) and I write stuff for non-TG sites. It's a hobby I guess. Not as much as shoe collection, but a hobby. :D

I found myself thinking why am I doing this?I foun...

2008-04-24T15:41:00.000+01:00

I found myself thinking why am I doing this?

I found m'self thinking, why doesn't she do this more often.

-C.M.

I tried to be a producer from the word go when we ...

2008-04-24T12:11:00.000+01:00

I tried to be a producer from the word go when we first went online about 11 years ago. This was relatively easy for me, as I had various wargames projects (scenarios, rules sets and so forth) which I could convert to HTML and then share in a way I hadn't been able to do before. I also decided that I wanted to provide someothing new, and found that a game I particularly enjoyed had no dedictaed site devoted to it. So I started one. Over the years that site has spawned a whole international community of players who regularly meet up for events and competitions, and has become the nearest thing the game has to an 'official' site; when a second edition of the game was released a few years ago, my site's url was included in the booklet as the place to go for further information.

Things have moved on in that time, though. People have come along who are better and more prolific producers than I, and for a while now I have been content to browse on what they do, and just leave my own original content to quietly draw a small passing-trade. The nearest thing I have to production now is my Flickr stream; not the Rachel one, which is just typical tranny shots, but my bloke one which, I hope, keeps a few people amused from time to time.

Balancing the account is dependent on how many 'vi...

2008-04-24T09:12:00.000+01:00

Balancing the account is dependent on how many 'viewers' (for want of a better word) you have for your content. If one item is viewed by 2 000 000 000 people, that balances with viewing 2 000 000 000 items yourself that others have created, I think that Hamster Soduko is worth a lot of credit in that respect (and hopefully generated a few Adsense clicks to make it seem worthwile!).

The great thing about the anarchy and free nature of tghe internet is that you can consume in one place and contribute in another. For example I can balance my consumption of tranny related content with being an electronic agony aunt elsewhere (there would be a lot of rough looking trannies if a was a tranny agony aunt).

Don't leave us Becky! Ahem... I mean, please conti...

2008-04-24T07:53:00.000+01:00

Don't leave us Becky! Ahem... I mean, please continue to blog Becky, we enjoy it so.

I tend to consume more than I produce, but I try to keep active on blogs and forums to make sure I'm not a sponge.

I even found a torrent site that only allows you to download if your DL to seed ratio was at least 1.0

I think a great way to get feedback is to blog or post something that requires a response. That way, people are more likely to respond, and can also get the buzz of having contributed.

I'm thinking more of quizzes/surveys rather than just passing on memes (unless the meme is a quiz/survey!)

I expect that at least part of it has to do with t...

2008-04-24T00:27:00.000+01:00

I expect that at least part of it has to do with the misconceptions. mis perceptions about the technology involved itself. As computers serve more and more as passive entertainment centers, the impetus to engage diminishes. We don't usually engage with telegision, or magizines as a dialogue. We consume, as you say. Only occasional do we even discuss what we consume with others, and then its usually along the lines of like minded.
I also miss Miss K and Siobahn. They were making use of the medium in very creative, highly personalized ways. Very successfully, I felt.
You do this as well. You have a very personal way of writing, particularly tinged with a sharply observant sense of humor, that I envy at times greatly.
As our culture becomes more throw away simply because technology makes things faster, more efficient or more ephemeral, and more of our lives become "subscription" based on that technology, it gets harder to sustain the effort to imput things back.
As prevalent as digital art product is in my work field, there's still an underlying predjudice that it is of significantly less value than a physically executed work. Most of the time they are not even referenced as art at all, just images to suit the moment. I think that carries over pretty much across all creative outlets. Words on paper (versus words on screens) are somehow assumed to be more real.
I didn't realize till I started blogging, how much conscious effort it takes, even just to make a list of the activities of a day. Trying to give more, only quadruples that energy requirement. And often you do it in silence, for silence in return. I think all bloggers want engagement with their efforts. The types of engagement Helena talks about take more effort and more thought, so they are always going to be on the few side. That's always going to frustrate me personally, though I understand it.
Sometimes a slap on the back is just enough to keep me going at least.

Not me. :-) Those were very good points. And that'...

2008-04-23T22:34:00.000+01:00

Not me. :-) Those were very good points.

And that's not just me back-slapping. ;-)

I am a varacious consumer of information and I hav...

2008-04-23T20:04:00.000+01:00

I am a varacious consumer of information and I have to admit to being very poor at giving feedback to the creators. I try to balance that by creating my own content, but its often a poor 2nd, sorry. Biut ssometimes shyness can stop you, they are "them" somebody and you are just you, nobody and you don't want to possibly offend them,

BUt feedback isnlt always great anyway. One problem I've seen sometimes is that groups of content creators can become a form mutal back slapping societies lauding praise on one another, when honestly sometimes much of the work is mediocre. There's less of this in the blogging areas, but I've been on Art sites where it could get very incestous. Another problem I think is the internet has become a place where people expect something for nothing, so theres a percentage out there who if they do give you feedback, they seem to you owe then something for it, above and beyond the content. And when it comes down to the feedback itself, I don't know about the rest of you, but some honest constructive criticim to help improve the work would be more appreciated than half a dozen Flickrites or who ever just saying "You're hot".

I've created content at an amature level over for many years now, paper based art work and comics, computer based graphics, animation, code, game stuff and in the last year or so, blog and photographs. Always the feedback has been limited. I've come to the conclusion that the creation of content for free just has to be something you do for your own reasons, you will never get back from others anything near what you put into it. So either be selfish and do it for you, do what you like when you want to. The only other way is to try and make some money out of it.

NOw I;m worried that I might of cuased offsense with this comment :(