Everything's Gone Green – The Other Side of Mistrust

Category: social networking

  • Catching up

    First, a few changes/updates I’ve made to this blog: – I’ve reverted to the “everything’s gone green” theme from last year (see why below). – Most of my old songs and tunes are now available as free direct downloads in my Music page. – I’ve reorganised my links on the blogroll-type list, and included some…

  • Stephen Fry, blogging and musicians

    Musicians and bands should take notice of Stephen Fry’s comments on BBC’s Analysis programme “Stephen Fry: The Internet and Me”. Fry points out that Twitter and its ilk have made it easy for celebs to bypass the press offices and gossip columnists, and tell the world what they’re doing as soon as it happens. Why though, are…

  • Using Soundcloud in WordPress

    If you’re a Soundcloud user and want to play your tracks in your WordPress.com blog, here’s how to do it:  Just copy the link location from the “download” button on your soundcloud player and paste it into your WordPress visual editor (not the code editor). You need to add the usual WP code to it…

  • Twitter ye not!

    Looks like an overload at Twitter HQ! Far too many people using Twitter? Whatever it is, Twitter ain’t working. If you go on Twitter.com there’s a message saying: Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing—we’re going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon. I hope it’s back up soon. I’ve started…

  • Ping.fm

    I’ve discovered Ping.fm, which if it works, will allow me to post messages and updates straight to my blogs etc from one service. Here’s hoping! …well it posted ok, but the only problem with services like this is that you have to edit the blog post to add other categories!

  • Everything’s gone mobile

    I’ve just launched a new add-on to my blog/website. It’s a mobile website, built on something called Winksite. I came across this through my elearning daytime job when I was looking into podcasting. Winksite lets you make webpages that can be viewed on mobile phone, and it’s something I’ve wanted to do for a while,…

  • Ning not Facebook or Myspace

    I’ve just signed up to a new “social network” for music technology and production people, run by Music Tech magazine in the UK. Called MTM Studio Net,  it says that it’s the place for producers, engineers and recording musicians to showcase their music and share production ideas. So far, about 70 people have signed up…

  • Odeo, oh dear

    I wanted to put some of music on the world of mistrust. I’ve got tracks hosted on Last.fm and loads of other sites, all with wonderful music players that can be embedded into a webpage. However, due to “security” concerns, WordPress won’t let you embed them because they’re all Flash-based. That leaves only a few…