Here’s one for you. I’ve been posting a series already published in the international market. It’s mine. I wrote it. I wanted MyFriends to see it, and so I subsequently hoisted it up into the blogosphere (Who coined that phrase, anyway?) once it got to where it was going and was accepted.

MySpace didn’t get it first. They’ve got first rights to nothing, as far as I am concerned.

I think the wannabe powers would be shocked, eh? Think they’ll make me take it down since they didn’t publish it first?

I am seriously considering leaving MySpace and sticking to my real businesses of writing articles for the overseas market, and publishing. I deleted my account once, in fact. I was hounded until I came back. What’s up with that, anyway?

(How you doing?)

Nice rant and so true

The SteamGeek “brand” might one day go places and make a difference off-MySpace, in the mean time I’ve not only met you, but many other folks who have taught me things and forced me to think further and clearer than I would have on my own.

That being said, the ‘next step for folks may well be off-MySpace, but if Im right I think MySpace will move toward the real world rather than away from it. I think most if the complaints or drawbacks are more rooted in “lack of maturity of the product” than by overt design.

For folks like you and I who want to do more than the MySpace “tool” allows, we do in need to venture farther to auxiliary, yet Ive also blogged under the SteamGeek banner on (many) of the alternative prime time blog sites and none can compare to MySpace for the networking tools and potential target audience.

So its a mixed bag, nothing can compare for someone starting out (free easy to use and effective tool), yet to really make a mark in the world one also needs to think beyond MySpace.

We both will likely keep one foot in MySpace and one out in the rest of the world… and if I may be so bold as to assert there are huge advantages to both sides of that fence. I might also assert on some level both are mutually beneficial to the other.

I think its great you’ve parlayed this self publishing game to the next levels, especially Grad School. The opportunities are huge, Im looking forward to playing the game along with you.

As far as your research project / thesis, I would love to get your point(s) of view on some of my earlier work:

MySpace, Fox, and the Coming Digital World

the website building… that is an idea