A Quick Update: On Blogging, WordPress, & West Side Story (2021)
Hey, there, Dear Reader.
I know, I know. I don’t write too many posts here anymore. I
regret that, but once a bunch of conservatives – or maybe it was only one or two
conservatives, I don’t know for sure – complained to Facebook that I was
posting politically-themed stuff that they didn’t like, the Powers That Be in
Meta’s corporate HQ decided to block A Certain Point of View from the “Social
Network.”
I had no way to appeal that decision; Facebook/Meta makes it
so hard to get a punitive decision regarding what you post on Facebook that it
was just easier to go over to WordPress and create A Certain Point of View,
Too. I did not want to, nor did I love the idea of paying a yearly
fee to have my own domain name and other benefits from a premium account, but
if I wanted to share my blog on Facebook – which was one of this blog’s biggest
sources of readers – I had to do the “WordPress” thing.
As I’ve said in previous posts on this topic, I thought I’d
be able to either write two blog posts per day on each site – Blogger and
WordPress. Barring that – since I do have to write screenplays and whatnot – I considered
a “one day for Blogger, one day for WordPress” schedule.
That “alternating blogs” idea seemed the best option to
choose, and I would have taken it…had it not been for one thing: reader
engagement.
See, over on WordPress, I soon built up a following. Not in
one day, of course, and clearly not in a week. But in less than a month, I had
acquired over 30 followers on A Certain Point of View. Compare that to
the current 24 followers that I have now – and I started this blog in
2010…or 2011.
Currently, I have 463 followers on WordPress. 463 > 24.
Also, I get more feedback on WordPress – non-spammy
feedback, anyway – than I do here. In the decade or so that A Certain Point
of View has been on the Internet, I have only received 30 or so comments, most
of which I have replied to. Hence, the comment count (as I write this) is 70 in
all.
Over on WordPress? Since I started A Certain Point of View,
Too, I have received well over 700 comments, all of which I have replied
to. Thus, my comment tally on WordPress is 1,327 (as of February 17, 2022).
If you’re going to write a blog daily, you must go where readers appreciate what you offer them and respond. That’s why I
do the whole blog thing.
So, yeah. I write there every day, while here I now only
write, at best, once a month.
Anyway, there’s not a lot going on in Lithia, Florida. .
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The only thing I look forward to is the arrival of my two West
Side Story (2021) pre-orders from Best Buy and Target.
Content-wise, both sets have the same stuff: the 4K UHD
Blu-ray, the 2K HD Blu-ray, and the code for the digital copy. The difference
between the two lies in the collectible packaging: the Target 4K order has a
traditional Tony-and-Maria “at the Dance In the Gym” painting on the cover art,
and it also has two collectible art prints.
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Best Buy offers a collectible steel book package with
different artwork on the cover and no extra collectible prints. I wasn’t going
to get it, until I saw that if I paid $3.98 extra up front, I would have a
better chance of getting my West Side Story set on March 15, the appointed
“street date” for its release.
So, yeah, Dear Reader. That’s the one thing I’m looking forward
to in March. More so than my last birthday as a 50-something.
Well, that’s all the news I have for you, so I’ll just sign
off here. Until next time, Dear Reader, stay safe, stay healthy, and I’ll catch
you on the sunny side of things.
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