Kanye Hearts Fish Sticks / Kanye 爱鱼条

Kanye West is one of my favorite artists. In part, it is due to his ability to speak his mind and try things he feels is right, defining his own style in the process, but his melodramatic personality, and his deftness at bringing attention to himself is also awesome.

He's always been able to get in the news, but his latest (you may have seen) revolves around his reaction to a scene from South Park that makes fun of him and exaggerates his reputation having a massive ego. I'm writing about this because I particularly liked the way he handled his response. I hope that his hints of humility stay with him. His blogsite is pretty cool. If you ever get a chance to, you should definitely check it out.

That's the interesting thing I find about blogs. As a tool that puts you in touch with your fans / friends / admirers / bored wanderers, it can be a good lesson in humility as well. If all you are doing is talking ish, then that's all you're really doing: Talking. What you aren't doing is "communicating", which is what is important in any dialogue. With the right communication, you can grow your fanbase, increase your friends, add to admirers and attract more bored wanderers.

Kanye's website is pretty cool too. Way to go Mr. West.

I Now Have Titles

It's 2am in the morning.

Why am I up?

I'm "improving" the online me. I just added a picture (Yataa!), and I added the title field to my blogs. I'm good at making titles, case in point, this one!

Also, I will have you know that I have A.D.D. so I apologize in advance if you find that I jump around in my blogs.

I wanted to comment about 2 more things. The reason this blog exists.

1. On a more selfish level, this blog will help me improve my writing skills. It is important as I am in the business of PR / Marketing / Communications. Being able to write and write well is important and I hope to refrain from using simple prose. It will help me refine my shoddy English which has deteriorated in the length of time that I have lived in China. It will help me improve my skills in Scrabble - I know what I'll do, I will ensure that I use and learn a new word each posting (and in turn you will learn too!), if not learn a new word, then use one that I don't normally use... what a stupendous idea (ok so I know what stupendous means, but I don't use it often).

2. On a more idealistic level, I hope that this blog will improve the world in some way, and by saying that, I hope it improves your world in some way also. Either through my optimistic ramblings, my insightful discoveries online that I will share, by providing you with voyeuristic opportunities of my life, reminding you of a word you may not often use in each posting, or at the very least taking your mind off your troubles if for a couple minutes while you read

I'm going to make a conscious effort to resurrect my blog.

After reading a recent article on building your online brand and improving your online brand, I've decided I need to resuscitate what once was littered with the audiences of footprints and eyeballs. It's especially annoying since I made a bet on Xanga back in 2001 when I thought I could pay $100 for lifetime membership. It seems that it would have worked, if Big Brother didn't begin banning a bunch of websites from China. With Xanga on the black list, my habitual blogging waned (all those wasted ramblings!). However, after reading those two articles, I'm invigorated once more, a second wind as you will.

Reading my posts from way back in 2001 is definitely refreshing though. I was once so innocent. A lot has changed, but I'm still a hopeless romantic when it comes to all things life. Optimistic.

As to what I will post about now? Why, my ramblings and senseless musings of course. Ho, ho, ho...