Joseph Natividad

What’s Happening to the Warriors?

My Golden State Warriors are slumping to 0-4. Is it a good thing that I?m not back at home to watch every single minute of my favorite basketball team?s play during the new 2007-2008 NBA season?

Even though I?m all the way down here in SoCal, I?m trying to keep up with whatever is happening to the Warriors. All I see is Lakers Lakers Lakers on TV and I don?t care a single bit about Kobe or whatever is happening with his trade rumors.

I subscribe to RSS feeds from the Contra Costa Times and SF Gate?s coverage on the team so that keeps me up to date with everything that?s going on in Oakland. When games are going on live and I can?t watch it anywhere, I resort to listening to the radio online at NBA.com.

I?m really hoping that things start to get better for the Warriors. I?ve been through the team?s depressing and almost unwatchable years since I began following them in the 4^th grade. What they were able to accomplish during the playoffs last season awakened the basketball fan base in the Bay Area. I don?t care if people just jumped on the ?We Believe? bandwagon. I?m a Golden State Warrior fan for life.

Tags: basketball, bay-area, contra-costa-times, golden-state, nba, oakland, sfgate, warriors

Teen Blogger Finds Real Estate Success

Could I actually be famous? Well maybe not just quite yet, but I?m definitely feeling like my ego has been nudged just a bit during the past 24 hours or so.

Inman News, a real estate journalism publication based in the Bay Area, recently sent out one of its reporters to profile the work I have been doing for a number of real estate blogs this summer. It was only yesterday that I walked into their office in Emeryville and sat down for a face-to-face interview. In a matter of only one day I couldn?t believe I found an entire article posted about me online. How amazing is that?

I?m simply blown away at the fact that people are beginning to recognize my efforts. I know I?m just starting out with this blog and I am currently writing as a contributing author for four other sites, but I have this feeling in my gut that things can only go up from here. Forgive me for being clich?, but the sky really is the limit.

Before my senior year in high school, I never even dreamed that I?d get involved in writing through blogs as much as I have been these past two months. My training had primarily focused on print journalism and the significance of objective reporting. Learning on my own because I pretty much have to, I browse through various blogs that I find interesting and pick up on the techniques they utilize in order to be more effective with my posts.

If I had to look at the point in my life where things really started taking off for me in terms of my participation in the blogosphere, the Contra Costa Times would definitely be on my mind. They opened things up for me in terms of public exposure as well as its creation of the LIP Blog: I Should Be Doing My Homework, in which I started contributing regularly to since its inception at the very beginning of this year.

As long as blogging stays enjoyable for me to do and doesn?t impede on my studies and my social life, then I?ll keep on typing away for many years to come.

Tags: blogging, bradley-inman, contra-costa-times, emeryville, glenn-roberts, harper-team, inman-news, jim-walberg, john-harper, joseph-natividad, LIP-Board, profit, Real Estate, success, teen, teenager