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Re: Bag of Spoons

steevc — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:43:19 -0000

Steve, I just enjoy writing stuff to remind me later. It was a great show though. I've been telling people about it and they like the clips I've shown them. You may pick up a few more fans. I'd still like to do a house concert one day, but money is a bit tight at the moment. Maybe next year.

Re: Bag of Spoons

solobasssteve — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:27:06 -0000

Steve, thanks so much for taking the time to write a review - I'm really glad you enjoyed it. We did too! Made a real change for me to be playing to a room full of bassists again, and it was mostly a pleasant surprise to be back doing that again :)

see you again soon, I hope

Re: Conversation platforms will make blogs increasingly redundant

phbradley — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:49:15 -0000

we may see a divergence between conversation hubs you and I are forecasting the growth of, and web logs (the latter being a return to a form of self-expression truer to the etymology of 'blog') - this is where multimedia rich, 'broadcast' web log sites like Tumblr fit into the picture

Re: Conversation platforms will make blogs increasingly redundant

solobasssteve — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:12:29 -0000

very interestest post,

I think there will be a trend in you direction, but a few things will keep blogs alive - one is the self-selection of web users as primary content producers, synthesisers and lurkers (David Jennings excellent book 'Net Blogs And Rock n Roll' explores this really well), as well as the deferential way that people naturally respond to those whose writing commands a different kind of response - there's still kudos to be had from sharing someone else branded space...

I love the move away from broadcasting to conversation, but I can still see place for blog posts in a world of conversation both as crafted essays (written with a different level of journalistic care and attention to conversational responses) and as a repository of 'complete' thoughts... In the same way that books are still going strong, but discussion about books is growing rapidly, I'd guess that the discussion culture would grow up around blogs... a lot of it, I guess, will happen as the implementation of granular APIs makes the porting of comment threads to comment aggregation sites easier...

And there are still occasions when one wants to log thoughts without it being explicitly for conversation... it might be a more person statement, or narrative about your life, and therefor the conversation format won't suit it.

granularity is the key, and it will hopefully happen at the intersection of design and APIs, facilitating multi-layered levels of concept/idea presentation and conversation starting...

This also brings up all kinds of questions about the degree to which the web is/isn't should/shouldn't be 'democratic', but that is a whole other discussion... :o)

cheers!

Steve

Re: If you had to choose between Twitter and your blog what would you choose?

solobasssteve — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:25:20 -0000

If it was a straight choice, I'd go with my blog - I am by nature a fairly verbose writer/thinker, so do enjoy having more than 140 characters to mess with. That said, Twitter has in a matter of weeks become a really vital part of my web/work-life. It's also been fantastic for driving traffic to my blog, for whatever that's worth...