So there I was, checking email messages and following a link to watch a silly animation video and friend of mine thought I would enjoy. And on that video’s page was an ad for SoulCast, a site where you could get paid to blog. I was already blogging – just keeping a journal of important events really that I could share with friends and family – on another site that a friend introduced me to. There were just five of us, the others friends of my friend. My friend had told me that he was thinking to blog on a site where you could get paid and I looked at this SoulCast ad and wondered if I shouldn’t check it out.
So I clicked and looked over the information. “What the heck,” I thought. I signed up. Harmless enough. My description? I think I wrote something like, “Already blogging somewhere else. Living in Japan now. Just writing about my experiences over here.” Boring, eh?
Now what to post. I decided just to copy and paste my last post on my other blog about two policemen who stopped me to ask why I was walking around at 11:30 PM. I would write other posts later that were not on my original blog, posts that were more personal or personal about other people, which I wrote because I was anonymous, and most of those posts would also later be deleted. But my original post still remains.
Now a tag. The story was slightly amusing so that’s the tag I gave it: slightly amusing. And I clicked “post” and there it was. My first post on SoulCast, May 23rd, 2006.
