Expansion

Today's Developments: Interviewed the new VP of Finance, Work, Bored in class (check out my Tumblr for all that), Hung out with future roommate, Picked up Amy at work.

The Zune is currently playing: Nujabes feat. Shing02 - Luv (sic.) (Modal Soul Remix)

It seems that last night's post regarding the current administrative initiatives against rallies and demonstrations on campus got some good response. Student movements have been quite mum as of late - perhaps these developments among the student body will awaken some action.

Some words of caution to my fellow activists as we move into this April 2009 - we need not focus on the anger that comes about when we read these initiatives. I feel we should exploit the fact that the rules and regulations they are putting forth are utterly ridiculous and are illogical. Points made regarding the usage of the actual San Diego Police Department are also very credible - that infractions on these regulations are not stout breaks on law.

To actually cart away students is, at best, going to incite even more exposure on the way this campus really runs things. To think that what should be a last resort - expulsion and getting arrested - will all of a sudden become the first step is perhaps the most frightening part. Rather than understand the situation, realize that the experience of a majorly represented white student is NOT the same as the experience of a minority student, and try to make moves toward an equality between the two, they would rather just silence us indefinitely.

Why not just start dusting off those old "WHITES ONLY" signs and get them ready for usage again?

In the words of one of my favorite poets, "Use your real eyes to realize the real lies."

WITH THAT SAID,
I wanted to move onto the thing that I really wanted to blog about tonight. Discussions regarding this ongoing struggle for voice will continue. Trust me.

It's nice to be back in the whole flow of blogging. I tried to do it a lot in the past, but my stints would only go as far as about a week and then I'd lose the habit. This time around, I'm trying harder. Every night before I go to sleep, I take one hour to update my blogs. Yes, plural. I have a total of three stable blogs now: this Blogspot, Tumblr, and Twitter.

Twitter is my microblog; just a place to put my small thoughts when they happen. Tumblr is more of a content hub, where I put interesting tidbits of information I might find online, as well as some random, unlengthy thoughts. This Blogspot, then, is where I put my mind to work every night, just to empty my head on any topic that I might conjure up during the day.

As you've seen lately, these thoughts have been occupied by my fellow fighters on campus that are trying to make the school understand that we are not to be shrouded.

Today, however, a more specialized path regarding my digital life was brought to my attention. Sure, it is nice to have blogs on various servers that will host for free, but why not put in the extra effort and a little bit of money to actually have a proper domain? It would get my name out there even more, not to mention bring a sense of professional commercialism to my brand of musing.

I know that things like this are a dime a dozen, but with a stable and constant flow of content, I think it might work. And having my own website would for sure be a much more legit way of getting my name out there. I am an aspiring poet, after all, and having an actual digital base in the intraweb would be a great way to jump start whatever progress I hope to make as a marketable entity.

It would be a place to host all of my blogging content, as well as post videos of my performances and texts of my poems. Other than that, it would be a good place for me to practice what I want to do in my future - online tech journalism. Blogs are the new homes of technological criticism. And any experience is good experience.

The cost would be low - GoDaddy, after all, will host a domain with a lot of breathing room for less than five dollars a month. And it is all paid upfront - a one time payment of $60 dollars, theoretically, for one whole year of service. And I know plenty of people that would like to help me with the upkeep.

Besides - what sounds better? "10000leaves.blogspot.com" or just straight up "tenthousandleaves.com"?