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Apr 23  08
BloggingNo Comments

We’ve all seen it and most of us have experienced it first hand. Dormant Blog Syndrome. A blog that started out as a promising and exciting new venture slowly runs aground and goes without any posts for months on end. Like an abandoned lighthouse, the lights are still on but nobody is home. It’s happened [...]

Cure dormant blog syndrome by declaring blog bankruptcy

Apr 22  08
Podcasting8 Comments

Podcasting has been around long enough now for it to become established as a viable and respected industry. Many professional podcasters have honed their craft and developed large audiences. But, according to various industry insiders, podcasting as a professional industry is nothing but an unachievable fantasy. I’m not convinced that things are that bad. I [...]

Mainstream media is killing podcasting

Apr 21  08
Hosting14 Comments

Dreamhost have done it again. Imagine you are a blogger with a ten year blogging anniversary coming up in the next few months. Then, for no valid reason and with no notice, Dreamhost cancels your account and refuses to give you access to any working backups. And, to make matters worse, the backups that you [...]

Dreamhost destroys a ten year old blog

Apr 18  08
Blogging1 Comment

Picture the scene. Three independent musicians discussing their careers and hatching a plan to create and launch their own independent record label. One of those musicians was, and still is, me. Big Arena Records was the name chosen for the venture and until recently it remained a plan. Today, I took the first step and [...]

Building an independent record label using wordpress in ten weeks

Apr 17  08
Software3 Comments

The open source movement, from WordPress to Linux and back again, has a strength that no closed organization or movement has or will ever have. I’m referring to community. I recently decided to install Linux on a Sony laptop. Sony’s engineers had locked the machine into it’s Windows centric ways so tightly that getting Linux [...]

The future is open source