I’m going to have to post again about popularity and fame IN GENERAL, because I hung out with my cousin yesterday, and she had an interesting perspective on what I posted, like my motivations for putting media on the web or having my own ‘fansite’.

What you bring up here is part of the explanation that I didn’t give above. I’m not generating actual Fame through my internet shenanigans. The only people who know anything about me are the people interested in the video on the net space. I even went to PodCamp NYC, where people specifically interested in the space gathered together, and STILL, I wasn’t specifically recognized by anyone that I havent been introduced to before, but knows of my ‘work’.

So, even though my cousin snapped on me for saying that I don’t care and then posting a picture showing that I get hits from literally all over the world hahaha (She had me laughing quite a bit yesterday :D), the fact of the matter is that most of those hits are people looking for information on a topic, not wondering what Bill Cammack is doing this week.

Meanwhile, my friend Ant, someone I used to hang out with and play sports with when we were growing up, recognized me and shouted me out as we were passing each other in the street. I appreciated that, and worded him up on several things he could/should do as far as utilizing the internet to increase his reach and people’s awareness of what he does with filmmaking. That’s Popularity… On both of our parts. I want him to do well, now, based on the person he was back in the day when we used to hang out. I suppose Popularity relates to brand recognition, like Pepsi or Frisbee. One is a soda and the other is a flying disk. People have had excellent experiences with Frisbee brand flying disks, so the name Frisbee rings bells, and in a lot of cases, whatever the actual brand is, people call flying disks Frisbees.

Those feelings of good will or personal recognition are way more important/useful TO ME than having people that don’t actually know me or have never met me or hung out with me say “Oh… There goes Bill Cammack”. So anyway, I’m going to have to re-post about fame…. ESPECIALLY now that I’m even AWARE that my cousin reads my blog! HAHAHAHA :D