Showing posts with label Meta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Meta. Show all posts
Saturday, August 11, 2007
On Vay-cay!
The blogging has been light this week, and probably will be over the coming few days. I'm in SoCal visiting friends and doing the SIGGRAPH convention. Will tell all when I get back!
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
State of the Blog Address
My Fellow Citizens of the World...
It's been a bit more than two months since my first post here at Wagster Speaks. There have been 54 other posts since then. According to Google Analytics, I've received multiple visits from Brazil, Singapore, China, Australia, and Belgium. And readership seems to be modestly trending up, with 62 visits in November, 260 in December, and 291 so far in January.
I have no aspiration to be the next Josh Marshall or Kevin Drum. But I do appreciate that some of you take the time out of your day to see what I've been thinking about. It's gratifying to throw little capsules of meaning out into cyberspace.
So this is all a way of saying... the state of the blog is not half-bad. Thanks for reading. And don't be shy about leaving comments... I've made it very easy to do so: no registration is necessary. (I don't think I'm really going to feel like I have blog until there is a flame war in comments.)
It's been a bit more than two months since my first post here at Wagster Speaks. There have been 54 other posts since then. According to Google Analytics, I've received multiple visits from Brazil, Singapore, China, Australia, and Belgium. And readership seems to be modestly trending up, with 62 visits in November, 260 in December, and 291 so far in January.
I have no aspiration to be the next Josh Marshall or Kevin Drum. But I do appreciate that some of you take the time out of your day to see what I've been thinking about. It's gratifying to throw little capsules of meaning out into cyberspace.
So this is all a way of saying... the state of the blog is not half-bad. Thanks for reading. And don't be shy about leaving comments... I've made it very easy to do so: no registration is necessary. (I don't think I'm really going to feel like I have blog until there is a flame war in comments.)
Monday, November 27, 2006
The Veil Is Lifted
When I began this blog I was somewhat hesitant about revealing my identity on it. I'm pretty sure all of my multitudinous half-dozen or so readers know who I am, but I do link to here from some political sites I comment on, and my fear had always been that some right-wing wacko whom I had served a little too much snark to would hunt me down and shoot me.
I've realized, however, that one of the therapeutic effects of this blog is that it forces me to show the same face to everyone: friends of different stripes, family, business associates. Like perhaps most people, I had projected slightly different images to different groups in my life -- depending perhaps on what I thought they expected of me. This blog says: this is who I am and this is what I think. That act isn't complete unless I say my name. It's William Gadea. Everyone calls me Will.
And by the way, I just updated my professional website. You can see the animated short I recently finished over there: it's called SuperMadge.
I've realized, however, that one of the therapeutic effects of this blog is that it forces me to show the same face to everyone: friends of different stripes, family, business associates. Like perhaps most people, I had projected slightly different images to different groups in my life -- depending perhaps on what I thought they expected of me. This blog says: this is who I am and this is what I think. That act isn't complete unless I say my name. It's William Gadea. Everyone calls me Will.
And by the way, I just updated my professional website. You can see the animated short I recently finished over there: it's called SuperMadge.
Saturday, November 18, 2006
A Beginning
I'm not sure what this blog will be. A journal of my creative projects? A collection of my political rants? An account of my goings-on? Perhaps it will just be my random thoughts and observations. I know there will be long stretches when I will not post. But I hope the writing will be decent and entertaining, and I hope this will diminish complaints from friends and family that I am insufficiently communicative. Grand ambitions, I know.
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