Just watched some great short video’s by Commoncraft. I had never really thought about Delicious I had always seen the logo but had no idea how helpful the site could be so I signed up and added my first few favorites yesterday. I also added Google reader another time saver.
I find myself reading blogs everyday and for some reason it never dawned on me to just add a comment. I thought of it as some sort of private information I was gathering like a voyeur and less like an active member of a musical community. My dirty little one up secret. It’s a lot easier to approach all aspects of this business as a friend then a covert spy. Here it is out in the open that’s the way I honestly thought of it. How self destructive is that for a band?
Never mind a person. For me it’s all or nothing I either divulge my inner soul or keep my feelings neatly locked up. It would be good to find middle ground.
I have friends who scoff at Twitter they say “why do you care about what sandwich some big celebrity is eating?” It’s crazy people still have this impression of Twitter. There are people tweeting a lot of useless information but even more sharing valuable insights. A few months ago I sat in my home office on my laptop and felt a tremor from the floor. My first instinct was to tweet “That was weird just felt the earth shake.” Now I live in Toronto so we don’t get these sensations very often. I soon had friends replying on twitter they had experienced the same thing. So it was confirmed I wasn’t going crazy. So I googled latest posts and what did I read but thousands of tweets from all over the globe curious about the Earthquake in Toronto. It wasn’t till about ten minutes later that I read a post from the news media. Now that’s a global village. I understand that’s how we first heard about the earthquake in Haiti. Of course a hour later Justin Bieber tweeted about what he had for lunch. I use Twitter as a music marketing tool and a way to vent or have a laugh. It’s whatever you make it.
I have a bit of a Love Hate relationship with FaceBook. The Demi God of social networks. All the rules to play by. I’ve had my band accounts removed twice. Now this was a while ago but the scars are still there.
I didn’t really use the site that much it’s just I added clubs and bars I wanted to play at and people I hoped to work with. Now as I understand my big mistake was not setting up an artist account. Seems pretty evident in retrospect what raised so many red flags. My site was without explanation abolished from the network. The Facebook Gods had spoken. Now that was the first time. I wrote letters asking if there was a way to have my site returned and received no reply. So I vowed never to return.
Of course that all changed. I realized I had a lot of friendships built there and soon tried to set up another account. This time as an artist only account. This lasted about three weeks until one day my password didn’t take and I found I had been rejected again. This is one of those unexplained events that still plagues me to this day. Where did I go wrong? This can’t be happening again. I’ve just sent out invitations to all my past Facebook friends and have had people add themselves to my fan page. I’ve played by the rules and this isn’t fair. Don’t ask too many questions we know big brother doesn’t like that so just try try again.
So this is the third time I’ve set up my account. I think they call this perseverance or masochism. I’m not sure which category I fit into. So far no complaints. I’m afraid to rock this boat in any direction. I don’t really want to
ask my friends to join this ship just yet. Of course I do. Fingers crossed. One of my other dilemma’s is I have people joining my long lost accounts I have no access to so now I have unwillingly set up a few static Facebook accounts.
I’ve had a Flikr account for a while now. So when Ariel mentioned to add pictures I was sure I had this covered.
I did this as soon as I began this challenge. Like answering all the questions on a school exam and running out of time to only later find it was multiple choice.I look at the pictures on my website Flick connection and discover they all look grainy I’ve uploaded to small of size. How long has this been going on? The same day I’m on my Soundcloud page and decide to listen to my uploads. This is what a year after I signed up. I hear a parker practice session I’ve uploaded for one of our songs. Ironically titled Cloudy (with a chance of rain) including the humming of lyrics I had yet to write and a few choice add libs I would like to sooner forget. I think I’m unearthing a pattern here. Always do a dummy test. Or you get the big picture.
O.K. so now I’ve been to confession and its’ time to move onto blogging. Set up my targets (I mean friends)
and enjoy what they have to offer and give my feedback. That’s too easy isn’t it? Should I be enjoying these exercises? Shouldn’t this feel more like work? Maybe this is the time to admit I don’t know everything and I’m wiling to learn even if it is the hard way
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