December 1st, 2006
I have noticed in speaking to other musicians how many of them seem to be aware of blogging but haven’t actually got around to setting it up for their site yet. Everyone and their dog seems to cottoned on to the idea of myspace what I am surprised at the number of musicians who don’t yet have a blog set up.
So for any musicians reading this, the message is get yourself a blog immediately! The easiest way to go about this is to set up Wordpress on your web site. It’s a totally free software solution and will allow you to update and manage your blog very easily. There is also an extensive range of free templates available to allow you to give your blog a really professional look.
For the nonmusician reading this, sorry about the first part you probably have absolutely no interest in that!
So before I lose you completely I had better move on to something else.
The DVD has been going really well but some people have also requested that it should be made available on CD. Because I am a person who (almost) always bows to requests, I’m currently in the process of remastering the material for CD format. I can’t give you an exact release date just a moment but rest assured it will be posted here and on the front page of the site as soon as it’s finished.
In the meantime, I would like to draw your attention to the new short Internet promo video I released recently. If you haven’t had a chance to check it out yet please do so by clicking here
November 22nd, 2006
Well, I suppose it’s time for another little flourish of writing. With regard to this blog, I have to say when I get the opportunity to write I really enjoy it what I am really glad that one of my early posts outlined how I would probably write a few posts over a few days and then mysteriously disappear for a period of time!
While I suspect that I’m probably not psychic, you would have to agree that it turned out to be an uncannily accurate description of what has occurred here ever since.
Among all the things I have been working on, grappling with how e-mail filters are affecting the e-mail list has been one of the main headaches I have been dealing with from an Internet point of view. Almost everything that’s ever been written about promoting anything on the Internet (including some of my own posts) stresses the importance of growing and maintaining an e-mail list.
Unfortunately, spam has created a problem here as it has done with so many other things on the net. So in a moment of weakness and possibly madness I have decided to temporarily suspend the e-mail list and provide a useful page that people can set as their home page instead.
Basically, I have partnered with Google to provide a search engine and there are some other useful links on that page as well. To check out this search/start page please click here.
The idea is to provide a page that you can set as the home page in your browser. From there, it will keep you up-to-date with any news, downloads, and tutorials posted on the site.
That’s about it for now but if you are familiar with this blog you will know to probably expect a number of posts in the next few days and then, as usual, I’m likely to go little quiet for a while. At least if you are using the start/homepage you’ll have a nice clean functional page that works!
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