If I were to fill a blogger application these days, for whatever store or event that comes along regularly asking for advertising time, I think it would probably turn out to be something like this:
Your SL User Name: Xeriko Melnik
Your Blog URL: http://blog.xeriko.net/
Your Flickr Feed URL: My flickr… hmm… Sorry, I don’t have an active flickr account. I used to have one, yes –probably like most (if not all) of us, I usually open an account on any new web service I come across that requires registration to try it out, and then forget it the next day. But it happens that I don’t like Yahoo services that much anymore, so I turned my back on flickr ages ago. Now that you ask, I wonder if flickr admins delete inactive accounts or if they let them be ad perpetuam (you know, for statistics purposes, to secure their millions of “users”). And for your information, I have no intention in finding that out, meaning I won’t reactivate that account or create a new one just to qualify for an event.
Your Pinterest Profile URL: Why do you ask for my Pinterest profile too? Why don’t you just visit my blog and check it out first? Aren’t you looking for bloggers? Then, check the blogs first, come on. (Or maybe it’s time to change the concept of blogging, and coin a new term?). If you like what you see/read, wouldn’t that be a better way to judge if I’m good at it, before asking too many questions? Ok, ok. I do have a Pinterest account, yes I do, because it’s the easiest way to follow other people’s pin boards. I rarely post in there, to tell you the truth. For me it’s just some kind of post-it note thingy, to remind me of products I would like to try out, or to keep track of pictures from other people who I think are outstanding. I don’t think I’ll be posting pictures of this event or any other event in there either (my snapshots are only good enough to appear in a B-side project such as my blog). Yes, I understand, the exposure, etc., but hell, I don’t have so much time to keep so many services up and running. I don’t need that, neither I think there’s any need of crossposting; that’s a bad practice.
Your Plurk timeline: Oh, I have one of those too, indeed, and of that one I can actually give you a working url. It’s http://www.plurk.com/xeriko, but again, I rarely use it anymore these days. I got tired of people’s increasing self-praising or attention whoring (pardon my phrasing) on that service. That’s why my karma is so squalid ( I’ve never cared if it goes up or down).
How long (in months) have you been blogging? Finally, a legitimate question. Let’s see… hmm… I started blogging in December 2008, and it’s September 2014 now… That’s like 5 years and 10 months, right? Oh, silly me: you specified “in months.” Well, 69 (the what?). Does that prove I’m really an “active” blogger?
List the feeds your blog is on: What, feeds too? None that I remember. In the very beginning I did register the blog in a couple of feeds, but later I even changed the blog’s url and never care to update the information. So no, I don’t think my blog is on any feed.
Why do you want to blog this event? Another sound question. Well, I’ve done it in the past and I’ve enjoyed it a lot. It’s always been quite fun. Since I blog about home and garden stuff anyway (whenever I have a chance), the theme of this event matches my interests perfectly. And I’m probably blogging about stuff shown in there anyway, so why not fill in the application and make it “official”?
Comments: Please feel free to offer any pertinent information about your application. Do you now what? Filling an application to blog an event makes me feel like “professionalizing” my scarce blogging time, and that’s something not particularly attractive to me, like too much commercialism. I hate it when things turn that way, to be honest. I like blogging when I can, and about what I want to. Doing otherwise is like letting the fun go of it. Oh, wait! Now I understand: Do you expect me to lie to you and tell you I do have everything you’re asking for, no matter if I use it or not, just to be accepted? Would that make it? After all, how many people lie about their blogging just to get the free stuff?
The above example is basically the blogger application form in use this year for the Relay for Life of Second Life Home & Garden Expo, an event –probably the only event– I enjoy blogging about in detail. With an outcome so short of organizers’ expectations, I refrained from sending it out as I, by “definition,” clearly didn’t qualify to be included in the privileged official blogger roster, given that I failed in this self assessment so badly. Now I feel I’m growing a bad reputation, but whatever.
The H&G expo started several days ago, September 16th, and will run through September 28th. This season, though, it seems we will go separate ways because rescheduling this event to September (previously it was held in May) was really a bad idea –from a very personal perspective– because it’s one of my doppelgänger’s busiest times of the year. Hence, it leaves me deprived of the mandatory SL sessions I’d need to take some amateurish pics to accompany my usual stream of (un)consciousness… I mean, posts.
I do wish good luck to this honorable event and will very likely visit it more than once during its two-week period (I’ve been there thrice already). I also hope the existing surplus of SL events these days doesn’t hinder its success, as residents flock “automaton-ically” from place to place, blindingly clicking on stuff they will soon forget they ever bought, before a new round of attractions starts to unfold.
Just remember: this event is all about buying from the identified donation vendors first and foremost (right?). Pictures taken in the Home & Garden Expo. From top to bottom:
- Dutchie’s villa with Botanical’s vineyard.
- Part of Studio Skye’s multiseasonal installment
- Spargel & Shine Home’s mini-villa
- Cube Republic’s über cute wooden track
To teleport to the H&G Expo, use this slurl. To read more about it, follow this url. For anything else… just fuck off.