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stephen graham
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 Date: Wed Apr 02, 2003 8:27 am Post: Jazzwise blog |
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| Jazzwise, the UK's main jazz magazine, has set up a new jazz blog aimed at providing a chatty news forum and messageboard. Blogging has become a major new phenomenon on the Internet as posting is easy and immediate. Have a look at what we're up to at Jazzwise by going to www.jazzwise.blogspot.com. If you would like to take part, e-mail me at stephen@jazzwise.com and I will post a link to you so you can get up and running. |
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whit
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| Date: Thu Apr 03, 2003 10:48 am Post: Re: Jazzwise blog - future home? |
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| stephen graham wrote: |
| www.jazzwise.blogspot.com. |
That URL bounces me to a page saying "You have reached the future home of a BloggerDomain!" |
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stephen graham
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| Date: Thu Apr 03, 2003 10:58 am Post: |
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Try again is all I can suggest: it is working fine at the moment.  |
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whit
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| Date: Thu Apr 03, 2003 2:40 pm Post: Ah - the problem |
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| stephen graham wrote: |
| Try again is all I can suggest: it is working fine at the moment. |
The problem was the software here including the sentence-ending "." in the URL when it tried to be smart about your reference. Putting explicit URL tags around the URL fixes that - I've edited your post for that. |
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stephen graham
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| Date: Fri Apr 04, 2003 3:07 am Post: Up and running |
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| Thanks, Whit. I'd encourage JJA members to contribute to the blog or even start one up themselves. It's quick and easy and liable to pull in quite a lot of readers given the upsurge of interest in blogs. Perhaps the JJA could set one up as an appendage to the main jazzhouse.org site? |
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whit
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| Date: Fri Apr 04, 2003 11:24 am Post: Re: Up and running |
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| stephen graham wrote: |
| Perhaps the JJA could set one up as an appendage to the main jazzhouse.org site? |
And distract from yours?
But seriously, what do you see as the advantage of a blog format over, say, this message board? While some blogs in other areas are quite popular ([url]slashdot.org[/url] for the tech/freedom elements, [url]kuro5hin.org[/url] for more general cultural discussion), there are a great many thousands out there with no traffic except the poster's mother.
We'll be curious to see your success. If you can succeed, the question would be whether we could do something complimentary but different. kuro5hin started as sort of a slashdot clone, in content, but has survived and prospered by positioning itself so as not to compete with the obvious winner in that area. Blogs seem worth doing only to the extent they are best-of-category. Is there stuff you expect yours not to cover that the JJA might be positioned to handle better? |
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stephen graham
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| Date: Sun Apr 06, 2003 4:21 am Post: Message board or blog |
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| I think the problem with this messageboard is it doesn't get much traffic. Most messageboards on the web relating to jazz don't either (with the exception of a few such as the allaboutjazz facility). Perhaps a blog won't either but at least it can (with one person committed to putting something on it daily) provide a news or reaction service. With the exception of the ejazznews site there isn't a proper jazz news site on the web. Maybe a JJA blog could help remedy this, or more practically (using its private facility) act as a cheap and easy website for local chapters. So, say the Boston or DC chapter could have one and use it as an internal noticeboard. |
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