Posting Rules

Yeah, yeah. Anarchy, rules suck, chaos poetry, blah-blah-blah. Good Got it all out of your systems now?

So, way back in the stone age (2002) I started a personal blog called sTaRe, which eventually grew into a moblog and then a network and it was like herding cats. Endless squabbles between writers about who went “above the fold”, ex-girlfriends trolling the site and so called freethinker participants looking for the next yellow journalism style scandal (including encouraging the exs), coupled with a workload that had me rising at 4am to start scavenging through newsfeeds, looking for the next story, always trying to top the last big story to take the traffic to the next level or at least maintain the crazy numbers we had attained and BLAM! I was tired, done and bored shitless. It had become a job. Bleh. Besides, because I chose to run the blog on my server, incunabula.org the blog was forever doomed to be trafficked and critiqued by the paranormal-conspiranoia-occultist-tin-foil-hat-crowd. Double bleh.

So, I killed sTaRe and ran a bunch of other projects which were goal oriented, such as using blogs to write a new form of a novel (el centro), audio/video and torrent distro (greylodge, incunabula audio, Alterati and some others I have yet to step forward and take credit for). Plus, I went back to work in the tech industry and had less spare time.

I also neglected keeping my personal website current, so finally I decided to open up a personal blog, slowly integrate the elements of my personal website and update it with things that I have a closet full of that have not yet seen the light of the Internet. I will do this all as time allows. On my own time on my own terms.

Which brings me to another reason I stopped personally blogging  years ago. I grew tired of the whining and moaning that erupted if I skipped a day or a few days between posts. Hell, speculation would even arise as to the “real reason” I had stopped posting. Whatever. if you post a comment bemoaning my lack of chop-chop-punctuality in posting every 5 minutes, talking about my hemorrhoids and the behaviors of my dog, your comment will be deleted. Yes, that’s right. Deleted and then ignored. I will post what I want, when I want, how I want. Period.

Any questions? I thought not.

Have a nice day.

Twitter Rules

I encourage anyone reading this to follow me on Twitter. This is where I’m leaving the majority of my brain droppings these days. Twitter, Friendfeed (for the ultra-stalkerish type ) and The GSpot should give you more information than you want or need. If not, seek help. Now.

So, the rule is: if you follow me on Twitter I will look at your profile page, get a sense of who you are, what you write about, and what your intention is in following me and in being on Twitter in general. If you look interesting, funny, intelligent or otherwise intriguing, I will follow you back. If you look like a marketer, SEO or social media “consultant”, boring corporate dweeb, or just someone who wants to sell stuff and/or rack up followers (collect coins or something for gopod‘s sake) then I will not follow you back. Period.

Also, if I know you or know of you  and I think you’re a bag of pig swill, don’t expect a follow back. If I know you and I find you even slightly less reprehensible than a bag of writhing, maggot infested, pox infected, low rent, box of butterscotch candy (I HATE BUTTERSCOTCH!), then I will probably follow you.

Read into that what you will.

Eventually this will replace joseph.matheny.com More here as I get time to develop it.