STATE OF THE ADDRESS: THE3XGP.COM is 3 Years Old Today! (11/04)
Written by Rick From Chicago on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 in State Of The Address. 82 views
Hi Haters!
Just wanted to blog from the site blogger’s perspective….Yes today is a milestone, this website celebrates its third year of existence on the web. Congrats and thanks to everyone who takes time out of their useless lives and peeps the posts that I post on thissssss lol.
I must say I like this blog layout, compared to a year ago I kind of was losing steam and interest in my own site. It was the format that made me less and less interested in updating content on this site…Content is what drives people to return to a site, as information is key. So 3 years ago, still new to the world wide web, I paid $1500 for a production center to officially launch my website. Not knowing what I know now, I decided to let someone else put the site together. Damn looking back, what a waste of money it was! I could have used that money to buy some clothes or food! I could have went on a trip or something, I could go on and on with what I could have done with that type of moolah….Anyways long story short when I relaunched v2.0 of this site on Tuesday, December 11, 2007, I am proud to say that I didn’t drop a dime on it. And I think I’ve done a lot more in less than a year with this version that I did in the first 2 years of The 3XGP.
When I re-started the site a year ago, I envisioned something more than music, I wanted to incorporate stuff that interested me a lot. So now the site is all about MUSIC-FASHION-SPORTS-GOSSIP - these elements I have a fond interest for. Where can you find the hottest music, juicy celebrity gossip, UFC/WWE posts and fashion trends all in one site? Honestly I love to update this site whenever I get a chance to. Everything that you see on the site is a reflection of what I like, what I think is dope like soap on a rope and what’s on the verge of begin heavy. I don’t really know too many of my local bloggers out there who can do it like this - the consistency is not there. Sure we lead boring yet busy lives but damn, running a site isn’t that much work, all you’re doing is sharing information - whether it’s a video clip, a commentary, a scanadalous pic or the latest music video that is worthy of mention…
I would like to give a big up to all my peoples who visit on the regular. Also shout out to the other websites out there doing their thing, great stuff….The thing about websites is that if you see the same post on more than one site - don’t think they are stealing it. I don’t care who you talk to - nobody has an exclusive. All it takes is one site and the shit spreads like wildfire on the web. One site owner might rant on their site that they see other people with their content, but homie that content ain’t even yours. You is just as unoriginal as the next dude! The point is that everybody is getting the same information…but what it boils down to is who publishes it first. But the reality is, we don’t live on Internet. To have a wicked top site, you’d have to be connected to a PC 24/7 to update constantly…Take a legend like Perez Hilton for instance, I’m not even going to provide a link to his site because 98% of the populace knows his site. His shit now a days is no different than a 14 year old blogger. This it not to rain on Perez, he’s a trailblazer and is actually the website model to follow (think $$$), but everyone is trying to do what he does. But then again…who am I to say what makes a good site? I continue to learn something new everyday with this web stuff, but as the Internet becomes a provider for the sharing of information or content, all websites including this one in one way or another do follow a pattern of genericism…
Anyways not to get off topic but pretty much you can have 2 types of informative sites, the first being a public site where people come for popular information and then you have the latter - which is more personal and involves narrative writing and picture posts that only your immediate circle would appreciate. The second site is what you would say is a heaven for stalkers!!! (who knows who’s reading about your life on there) But yeah where does The 3XGP fall into? The early version from 2005-2007 would be categorized as half informative and half personal. But I’ve learned to keep the personal stuff on the side, save that junk for Facebook or MySpace! So I guess my site is strictly infomative on popular culture and what not. I love that junk - entertainment and all the outside elements (media, press, celebrity, photo, video, gossip) fascinates me…
As I write this and self-reflect in the process, I plan to keep doing the site until I get bored of it….and right now that is no where near. I am thankful for all the relationships I’ve maintained with the site, whether it be record label reps, DJ’s, and this may sound cliché - but the people themselves! I love how people visit and never comment on the posts…I’ll be honest, I barely leave comments on other people’s sites either. If I ever get a shit load of comments on my posts and the first post’s comment will say something like “FIRST”, you gonna get deleted! So yeah….in conclusion, thanks for tuning in, I dunno when the next State Address is. The 3XGP is still takin’ over one city at a time - just on a ‘Filipino Time’ schedule lol.
Holla!
Rick From Chicago
PS: Don’t forget to vote today!
BARACK THE VOTE!!!
