Life with Google again.

I can't believe I'd be so happy to be using the media MegaGiant Again. After doing the "30 days without Google" experiment I was met with love, hugs and smiles. Friends patting me on the back and new acquaintances all asking me "how is your experiment going?", "Are you done?" and "what's next?". Honestly, I dont know.

I wanted to get rid of my facebook but as an artist thats not the smartest thing. Then it hit me, as an artist using the internet, I should be a whole lot more connected with people using the net. So I decided to see if there were any online poetry blogs, nope. So I looked for a contest. Unfortunately, there is a contest for everything and anything nowadays, how do avoid the scam artists and swagga jacking net thieves. Until my friend and fellow poet Joshua Bennett told me about a online poetry contest on facebook. Now he is uber talented and also a judge for this Ralph Lauren poetry contest but the contest has one quirk. You have to get your friends and your friends friends to vote on you. Now after doing the Google challenge, i knew for a fact that even i knew a lot of people, no body really cares to vote for these things. What is it that I could be doing wrong that no one wants to vote? Finally, something I cant Google answer for. I have votes but going on my artist page and asking for votes only got me 3 lost fans. *tears*

Promoting is hard, more so in our artistic fields like poetry. Is social media a bad way to introduce new work to a new following or is it all a popularity contest? Have we ourselves decided to treat things like a Google search and not see behind the 1st page? Have I become comfortable because I am on the 1st page? As the thoughts fill my head, the only question that remains is "Has the audience because too lazy?"

I refuse to be subjected to empty shows because they think they can youtube a performance or just play the iPod version of the work. There was a time when none of that mattered and now I'm too sure that I am growing a following as quickly online as I do in person. So whats my new plan of action? To see if I can get votes on the this poem in this contest. Please check it out, its called "Passion". oh and for your InFo, I hope you like the new Upgrades I made to the blog.