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The trouble in being heard
As you may have noticed, I've posted a quite a bit in the last few days - I'm trying to roll it into a habit. I've berated my old pal Patrick to do the same - especially now that he's pushing a record and playing out.
I'm of the opinion that I can't write a song every day, so I might as well write something, and that being a post on here. I've pointed out to Patrick that, "If there's not something new when people get to your site, they're going to forget you the next time they're 'out there' surfing."
I've had a few favorite sites go dead on me, after luring me in with interesting talk, cool links, funny prose and the like. I'd check them frequently at first, a couple times a day, stalking them for new stuff. After some time, a couple of weeks or so, I'd taper off - I'd actually be annoyed that they weren't 'giving me my fix'.
A couple sites would come back; I'd happily forgive and forget, some would stay dead. The dead ones I had to take off my list of RSS, which seemed so final. Throughout this, I was curious how anyone who cared enough to put something on the net, keep it updated, garner a following, etc. would just toss all the work they put into it one day, sans explanation.
Since this is a site about The Schmoejoes, I post things about us, about stuff we did, shows we've played, shows we're going to play, and an odd bit here and there. I'd guess this is rather different than a LiveJournal or the like - we have shows. Posting the shows the other day was about the most tedious thing I've done for some time.
I'm not just posting shows here, I'm posting them on our MySpace site, I'm posting them on Google Calendar, Redfizz.com, TCMusic.net too. They all have their own little 'way of doing things', which means reformatting everything at best, or using pull-down menus for every field at worst. It took me over an hour to get everything 'right'.
My wife informs me that it's my own damn fault - people can come here if they want to know when we play, screw all these other sites. I agree. Why should I have to jump through hoops to post shows, update info, and change things on 10 different sites? All the info is here. Why can't they come get it, say, through a special RSS feed, and repost it in whatever format they like? Warning: Geeks only past this point.
It's like this: The Schmoejoes are booked at the Smokey the Bear Festival. I fill in a web form hosted on my site, with venue, date, address, time, comments, other bands, etc. It gets posted to my site, and auto-pings MySpace, and all the other sites I'm signed up on. They grab it, add it to The Schmoejoes profile; they're up-to-date, I'm up-to-date, and rather than an hour and a half of posting, fixing, reformatting, logging in and all the rest - I'm writing/recording/practicing/having a beer.
Oh, I want this.
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