A day of continuous postings

It’s relatively early, not for me, but for a lot of people.  Which is one of the reasons why I am always having such long posts in my blog.  My day starts off very early, compared to the average college student, or anyone who happens to not be obligated to getting up at 9 something in the morning.

Today I am going to be writing, continously, througout the day.  I’ll be making regular posts, every now and then, especially when something I think is worth posting, comes to mind.  I wanted to see how it would come about, if I did like that, instead of waiting till the end.  To tell you the truth, nothings ever as it is, if you wait till the end.  So, we’ll see where this goes.

I know this isn’t going to bring in as much views as yesterday’s post(which you have to be 18+ to read). Maybe, when I get my own domain, I’d have those types of post password protected and just have the warning, so that people who do login, are basically signing a terms and condition based on the fact that they are really 18 or older.  Although, I doubt much of my readers are younger than 18. Anyhows, yesterday’s post reeled in 27 viewers to that one post.  I got other visitors to the entertainment post, but nothing like yesterday’s own.  I guess we all can easily conclude that sex is what sells.   As if we didn’t know that.

So, in the end.  I am going to update continuously, as said before.  I am going to title everything and place the time next to it.  The most recent will be placed above, and of course time of posting will become earlier as you scroll down.   Pretty self explanatory I believe.

9rules network - second life

Second Life -  posted at 2:53pm - - back to choices

There seems to be a virtual reality, for every game system nowadays. There’s The Sims, that basically started it off.  Although there is World of Warcraft, but The Sims and Second Life, are separate entities from WOW.

I haven’t gotten around to playing Second Life, but it reminds me of that movie that Tom Cruise acted in; Vanilla Sky.  The whole, second life deal, that is. 

What you can do in this game is purchase land, buy and sell this thing called Linchen dollars,  take classes, run businesses and basically life a second life.  It’s free, with the basic membership, but of course as with everything, you can get a premium account.  

Second Life requires that you download it’s client system, to start interacting.  You can refer friends and you earn L$2500 for each friend that signs up for a premium account. The virtual tour that I took, was pretty confusing at first.  But, it gave a little humor into all of the findings you can come across in Second Life.

I am not sure exactly, wjhat the image to the left is suppose to portray, but I thought it was pretty funny. I guess it’s got the sexual humor that The Sims is known for. Which can give a different spin to the whole virtual reality. Unfortunately, I don’t know how the game is as of yet, haven’t sat down and played it. I am truly not a lover of these kind of games, but I am always ready to give them a try.

The requirements are that you have 25mb of free space on your PC, and 57mb for Macs. 

To own land, you have to upgrade to the premium, so the basic membership doesn’t seem to be anything that you can fully interact with.  But, it’s a chance to download the client system, and interact to see if upgrading is worth it.

The other cool thing about this game, is that you can create creatures.  I guess if you wanted a tiger  mixed with a lion, you can sit down and actually design this puppy and bring it to life on Second Life.  I think the creature to the right is pretty impressive, and if you’re interested in seeing other creations by Second Life residence, they got busy and are all located at SLU (Second Life Universe).

So if you are interested, in creating an avatar that looks exactly like you, then Second Life is for you!  Not only that, I am not exaggerating when I say the avatar will look like you, Wagner James Hu, scarily looks like his avatar.  I guess it’d take you some time to do it, but I am sure it’s worth it.

Soon, I will download it onto my other computer, seeing as my laptop already holds so much shit, I am surprised it still runs properly.  When that time comes, I’d take more pictures and gather up more information on this whole, virtual reality game.

By the way, if you’re ever around Second Life, hit me up, the name’s Hus Kazakov, and yes, I did make that name up.  They provide you with the last name, and you choose the first.  So, my name is Hus Kazakov, and please, try not to bite your tongue when you say it!

So, in conclusion, if you hate your life and wished you could own properties, businesses, women, whatever it may be, try out Second Life, I am sure you wouldn’t be disappointed.

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9rules network - posted at 9:39am - - back to choices

When I first heard of the 9rules network, it was on Chris Rhee’s infamous blog, called My Mean Girl.  I thought the idea was awesome, I thought Chris was awesome to get into a very nit pick network.  There didn’t seem to be much people in it, and it seemed as if you have to be very “important” to get in.  I of course, wept, for I never felt that I’d ever get into it.  Not like I was blogging or doing anything with websites at that time anyways.  But, I had always hoped that when I do start blogging again, and that I made my own website, and designed it to look unique from the rest, basically put my heart and soul into it, I’d probably have a chance at it.  

This is where Stud Master, came to life. The fact that I felt that I can follow the criteria for being in the 9rules network.  I’d have a constant post, based on how many times I promised to post.  I’d have a nicely designed website, and specifically not have it being hosted as a subdomain, and that people would actually be interested in viewing my page, because of it’s nifty content.  Well, I am not sure now if I want my website to be part of the 9rules network.  I know this might be old news for the blog community, but I’ve only been part of the blog community, for a couple of months.  I know nothing of the tag-o-war, or fights that’s actually going on in here.  I guess if you are as clueless as I am, you should also follow the Blog Herald.

What I got to find out, finally being part of the blog community, is that 9rules should not even be put up on a pedestal by anyone.  For the meer fact that they’d kick someone out, for 1) being affiliated financially with another blog company, 2) just contributing in some manner with other blog companies that’s into networking just as 9rules are.  To be honest, I believe that it’s kind of, childish, for a company to kick someone out because they feel they are playing with their “enemies”.  I am not sure if this move did much for the prestige, for the lack of a better word, that 9rules has created for itself, but I sure don’t get it as being a business decision, and to tell you the truth, it sounds like horse manure more than anything else.

How I gathered all this information, was after reading College Start-Up, and the 9rules kicked me out post.  I was a little disappointed, that a site that I regarded as so professional, being that they take only a few handful of submissions, they go through the sites one by one and choose whether they think it’s worthy of being part of their network, and when you are chosen, you get to sports the 9rules network logo on your site, for all to see, would actually make such an unscrupulous decision.  I mean, that logo is so cool to have on your site.  At first, I only saw it on a few and it’s that that made me look up to this network.

The company that 9rules, seems to be afraid of, is one called BlogMedia.   Yes, they have some networks, but it’s all sites built by them.  I have no idea how this can hurt 9rules, but maybe because my involvement in the blog community, is yet a short lived one, I might be completely wrong and just suffering from foot-in-mouth disease. 

But to be honest, they’ve lost someone who saw them as something innovative.  I remember in previous posts, I talked about Word Press being innovative.  Which it is.  Word Press is innovative, Google is innovative, Digg is innovative, Drupal is innovative,  but 9rules?  Nope, it’s not innovative.  Not when they do something like this.  The idea was good, but as mentioned in one of the comments in the College Startup - 9rules kicked me out post, 9rules now has so many people in their network, that the whole hype that it had before, isn’t there anymore.  The privilege, the want, to be part of this network isn’t there, because there’s now so many people added to their network, that no one is unique anymore.  Everyone is part of the thousands of people that’s part of the 9rules network. Imagine going to a conference, and you are speaking to someone and you’re like, “Dude, I’m part of the 9rules network, have respect!”, that individual is going to look back at you, produce a huge grin and slap you with this, “Dude, are you kidding me, so am I! We’re like brothers now!” And you can just imagine everyone looking around and saying, like robots; “We’re part of the 9rules network too!”  Hmm, I can just see it now.  That point is one that opened my eyes.  Before, I was working towards developing something impressive, so that I’d be accepted by the 9rules network.  Awesome, huh?  Now, I just honestly believe that they aren’t even worth my time.  I have no desire to visit their website.  I have lost all the little respect I had for them, and to be honest, I can see by next year, this network not being as it was before.  They seem to be highly hypocritical, and unresponsive to the fact that they are. Some sites get through their “tight” scrutiny, when they select websites for entry, that makes me raise my eyebrow at the decisions these people tend to make.  I mean, I’d be honest, some of the sites are impressive.  But, what’s the point with discriminating and discarding someone, who clearly is doing something that’s the whole reason behind 9rules.  I mean, what are they doing now then, if such sites as College Startup is not worthy to hold their logo anymore!

The thing I didn’t like the most about them kicking out College Startup, is the fact that they, without hesitation, asked him to take down the 9rules logo from his site, because they didn’t want him to be recognized as part of the 9rules network, and that they had had any type of affiliation with him. Hmm, can we say ass…holes! 

There’s nothing that’s professional, and business like, with just kicking someone out of a community, without 1) informing them prior to kicking them out 2) discussing with them ways of prevention for kicking them out 3) explaining to them, if all is lost, why you are kicking them out 4) listening to their explanation about what you are accusing them of, that’s causing them to be kicked out 5) taking in the explanation and taking more than a few minutes to make a positive or permanent decision 6) when decision is made, discuss it with the individual and then give them a very diplomatic explanation for either ways.  Provide them the pros and the cons, explain to them the business aspect of it, explain to them why the decision has to be made, and why there is no other way to go forward with this, but with the decision that your company made.   The final thing, that I believe is that, a company, if they’ve made and followed these steps, shouldn’t have the need to feel sorry or have to later on ask the person to email them if they want to discuss this further.  Discussion was suppose to have been done before decisions were made.  I don’t know what kind of people they have working/running 9rules, but this is very simple and basic concepts to business and business management.

In the end, I find it a shame that I’d never experience the network life.  But, after reading College Startup, it doesn’t seem like 9rules does much for anyone, not even draw more traffic, so why even bother?

As a blogger, and someone who may already know about the network, called 9rules, what do you have to say about all of this?

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