State of the Blog

Everyone,

I made a post a couple weeks ago asking for advice on how to improve the blog, and what-not and many of you have given some ideal words of wisdom and encouragement. Thank you for that.

With that said, it’s the start of a New Year and our little community is slowly growing from just a handful guys to a really big family. I can say I know a lot of you better than I know some of my very own family members (extended). But who would know you guys outside of San Diego? Who the hell knows who Burntsockz is, despite the knowledge that we sometimes take for granted, that he is, in fact, the Best Yoshi Main on the West Coast? So, with this New Year, along with some additions, the biggest one we’ll be doing soon is “player profile.” Basically, we’ll do our best to interview a specific player and know as much about them as possible, and dedicate a whole post to them. And in the future once I get my recording equipment off the ground, any videos, threads, ideas, or whatever, will be linked to that player’s profile, so we can all see how good they really, are, etc.

Sounds great, right? But if that didn’t get your attention, I’m sure something else did, too. I used the word “we” quite a lot. That means I want community support and I’ll be asking for a full-time volunteer staff. I try my best to manage this by myself, and I’m somewhat timely, but I need other people to do some minor grunt work, while I manage the harder, behind-the-scene stuff. Grunt work includes updating the tournament page; providing links to anything cool or well-written, Smash related stuff; taking pictures at events; giving me accurate details of who wins-vs-who from tournaments; anything I think of, etc. People that want to write or be a full-time helper, just contact me @ sdsmash@gmail.com. Do not say you want to help in the comments section, because I only sometimes read all the comments (bold-faced lie) and really it looks unprofessional, and I want to make good use of the gmail account I created for this site. The benefits of helping are: it looks good on a portfolio when you try to explain extra-curricular activities, etc. That may or may not be true. It’s mostly true though cuz it got me a job once.

Aside from those and a few other immediate changes, what I really want to do in the future is reserve a domain name for the blog, sdsmash.com, and really give this thing a nice and pretty graphical overhaul. I’m teaching myself all of these things and more, so maybe one day I’ll be able to do it. It’s goingg to cost money, but I see it as a worthy investment. But other than that…

Any questions? Concerns? That’s what comments are for.

– Ciao,

Marceux