Doesn't the guy that runs that site hang out on the emu forums? I vaguely remember a thread where that blog came up, just can't remember in what context. If I'm right about that, someone who's still an emu member get on that forum and invite him over here. We'd probably have a field day with him.
EDIT: Hey, I think it came up when I was looking for a Tobias Helkvist album, so Helkvist might be a good search word.
I've mentioned my friend's blog a couple times around these parts, but this time it's personal! I wrote a review for the new Decemberists album for him. Enjoy!
Well, forget about the debt crisis, global warming or any other inconsequential trivia - Sabbath is reuniting! Heard about it on a guitar rag site, and this blogger seems less than excited about it but love the website name - The Great Southern Brainfart.
Well, inspired by the efforts of MIG, I finally followed up from my initial summer efforts and got my blog up and running. I really needed it. I've got so many things up in the air and no centralized location to fold it all together. I'll probably wind up cross-posting stuff to MIG.
Maybe too soon for their bots to have crawled past it? Where you show up in search lists also depends on things like whether people link or go to your page from other similar pages.
I think I found my answer. I was looking for some sort of privacy mode that might block search engines from looking, but I was so focused on looking at it in one spot of my blog control panel that I didn't notice it staring me in the face in another section. I just flipped the switch, so probably in a couple hours when the google spiders have found me, I'll start showing up.
I had all that new blogger enthusiasm yesterday. Completely fried my brain. I wrote like four reviews, got first drafts on a couple more, and did some other shit, too.
I'm not old, but there's no doubt that from a tech standpoint, I'm totally a grandpa. If someone had taken a video of me trying to do my first tweet from birdistheworm account, I swear it would've gone viral. My wife left the room midway through because, I'm positive, that she couldn't bear to watch how piteous her husband looked in the face of the intertubes.
Of course, the other edge of the sword is a sweet side indeed. I'm trying to figure out why my blog doesn't show up in a google search, but will show up in a yahoo search. So I google for info about google and learn something about exactly how google finds new sites (empowering!). As a result, I put a link to birdistheworm as my AAJ signature (more empowerment!). But here's that sweet spot on the sword I was talking about...
I know enough html code at this point to have no problem getting that signature set up. However, the link takes me to the blog (and off of AAJ) on the same tab/page. I hate when links do that. I want a new tab. So, I quickly google a query about that very thing. An html code help site pops up, I go into it, I see the code I probably need, it makes sense to me what it looks like it will do, then I enter it onto my signature line. Voila! My AAJ sig line takes me to my blog!
You'd think that I just solved NASA's traveling-at-light-speed problem.
Not knowing much means when I take the initiative to learn something and figure it out, it's a joyous occasion.
That said, I've gotta make another tweet today, so if you hear very loud f-bombs originating from the mid-east, it's probably me and it's probably not me watching the Bears game.
So, I was miffed that google kept giving me the cold shoulder. I had my blog in my AAJ sig line, but still nothing. I had to get those damn googlebot spiders to start paying me some damn ass attention, but how? Then it occurred to me.. as a mod over at AAJ, I see tons of IPs, some of them members, some guests, a lot of them spammers, and tons and tons of search engine bots. Sometimes I even see them tailing the search activities of members. If member Bob searches for Bebop, then Origin Records, then Tacos, just a few steps behind, I'll see a google spider searching for Bebop, then Origin Records, then Tacos.
So screw it. I put the google spiders to work for me. I searched the fuck out of birdistheworm over and over and over. Then I saw the spider searching for it. Then I saw the spider looking at my profile page (where the sig line was). About fifteen minutes later, birdistheworm showed up as the third line in a google search.
I'm a genius (ignoring all evidence to the contrary, that is).
Just an fyi... I've been mentioning how crazy I am about Axaxi Karnusian's Strange Sounds Beautiful Music ensemble's "Interrupted". Just thought I'd mention that I put up a big post about it on BitW, which has several songs to stream as you read (and which weren't previously available online), as well as a link to her site where I discovered a few free album tracks available.
I mention this only because it was difficult previously to find much to stream on it (or at least, I didn't find much). I'm hoping this post rectifies some of that and gives some additional time in the spotlight to that excellent album.
Thanks Jonah - I've just listened to the three extracts on BITW and liked what I heard. As it is 19 tracks long it is £7.98 on emusic here - expensive and Amazon has it for £6.99. But I have to remember I have a grandfathered plan so it will only actully cost me £3.80. But instead I could have 2 or more albums with longer tracks, a tricky decision. So I'm going to wait to the end of next week, refresh time, and see what else I might want. Overall, it might be a better buy from Amazon, if it does allow a couple of albums from emusic that I want. Oh decisions.... better check out 7 digital!
Do the free tracks offered on Karnusian's site change the emu-amazon equation for you?
I am very jealous of the UK emu subscribers. As far as I can tell, you still have the lower prices/better plans and still get most or all of the jazz that I would want.
I hadn't thought about that Jonah, I'll check. We do have lower prices if you are on an old plan, anyone signing up now pays a lot more. A track costs 42p, but with my bonus, it goes down to 20p. Someone starting now , buying the same number of tracks (100) each month that I do, pays 37p per track, not such a good deal. The problem does come with albums with lots of short tracks, but there are benefits when you get long tracks. But it is worth the calculation to see if with short tracks you might be better getting elsewhere, rather than buying boosters, say, to get extra albums. Most jazz you recommend we do get, but not any on the majors.
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Doesn't the guy that runs that site hang out on the emu forums? I vaguely remember a thread where that blog came up, just can't remember in what context. If I'm right about that, someone who's still an emu member get on that forum and invite him over here. We'd probably have a field day with him.
EDIT: Hey, I think it came up when I was looking for a Tobias Helkvist album, so Helkvist might be a good search word.
- Or maybe you are thinking of PvC who has a blog called Ambientblog ?
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Ambientblog is the same as the second in Germanprof's post.
edit 2:
another eMy guy, Shoestore has a blog called Tigon World about electronic and experimental music.
Here it is...
http://www.birdistheworm.com/
If you want, I'll add a link on MiG. That goes for anyone else who wants their personal blog added, too.
Craig
My the stars of all our blog rise together in ascension.
Is that a paraphrase of something? I'm not sure if it falls under the category of history or pop culture (or both).
That doesn't ring any bells as a paraphrase of something to me.
Craig
I think I found my answer. I was looking for some sort of privacy mode that might block search engines from looking, but I was so focused on looking at it in one spot of my blog control panel that I didn't notice it staring me in the face in another section. I just flipped the switch, so probably in a couple hours when the google spiders have found me, I'll start showing up.
I had all that new blogger enthusiasm yesterday. Completely fried my brain. I wrote like four reviews, got first drafts on a couple more, and did some other shit, too.
/sigh
Of course, the other edge of the sword is a sweet side indeed. I'm trying to figure out why my blog doesn't show up in a google search, but will show up in a yahoo search. So I google for info about google and learn something about exactly how google finds new sites (empowering!). As a result, I put a link to birdistheworm as my AAJ signature (more empowerment!). But here's that sweet spot on the sword I was talking about...
I know enough html code at this point to have no problem getting that signature set up. However, the link takes me to the blog (and off of AAJ) on the same tab/page. I hate when links do that. I want a new tab. So, I quickly google a query about that very thing. An html code help site pops up, I go into it, I see the code I probably need, it makes sense to me what it looks like it will do, then I enter it onto my signature line. Voila! My AAJ sig line takes me to my blog!
You'd think that I just solved NASA's traveling-at-light-speed problem.
Not knowing much means when I take the initiative to learn something and figure it out, it's a joyous occasion.
That said, I've gotta make another tweet today, so if you hear very loud f-bombs originating from the mid-east, it's probably me and it's probably not me watching the Bears game.
So screw it. I put the google spiders to work for me. I searched the fuck out of birdistheworm over and over and over. Then I saw the spider searching for it. Then I saw the spider looking at my profile page (where the sig line was). About fifteen minutes later, birdistheworm showed up as the third line in a google search.
I'm a genius (ignoring all evidence to the contrary, that is).
I've now done the same for MusicisGood.
Expect the hordes to descend shortly.
Craig
Not prolific, but strikes me as unusually thoughtful and actually having insightful things to say about the music.
I mention this only because it was difficult previously to find much to stream on it (or at least, I didn't find much). I'm hoping this post rectifies some of that and gives some additional time in the spotlight to that excellent album.
Cheers.
I am very jealous of the UK emu subscribers. As far as I can tell, you still have the lower prices/better plans and still get most or all of the jazz that I would want.