Recently I reached an agreement with a leading international web 2.0
blog rev2.org. I will be posting on rev2 each weekday mostly around the
topics of international web 2.0 start-ups and/or new feature launches
by popular existing international web 2.0 businesses.
Rev2 is all about profiling the web 2.0 revolution. Launched in 2005 by a fellow kiwi Sid Yadav (Queenstown) the site has a number of prominent authors from around the globe posting each day. The subsrciber base of rev2 has more than a few zero's, with great penetration into 'The Valley' in San Fransisco.
One of my latest posts on rev2 scooped the news around facebook offering data storage. At last check the post had been dugg nearly 700 times as well as being mentioned on major sites such as mashable, venturebeat, webware, read/write web and techmeme. Permalink to techmeme post is also here. Suffice to say Im pretty stoked.
It's great to know that my work is of interest to the wider international web 2.0 community. Would have been nice to get a half-geek post dugg like that (god knows I have tried), however, this is not too realistic with my mostly 'down-under' niche content.
While I will have a bit more writing to do, this change won't impact on half-geek.com. In fact I think this will be really positive for this blog as I really want to keep half-geek loaded with relevant content to those of us parked down-under in NZ and Australia. The goal with half-geek.com is to talk about web 2.0 stuff that we can all benefit from here in the context of our local (and little) markets. There's not a lot of point talking about myspace in NZ, when everyone here uses bebo and facebook, you get my drift.....
Of course if you want you can always check out all the posts I have made on rev2 at any time by going here.
It's been a bit of a battle over the last 6 or 7 months to get traction for half-geek.com in what is becoming a fairly huge blogosphere these days.
I just wanted to say thanks to my loyal RSS subscriber base that has been growing steadily, particularly over the last couple of months.
I have made around 75 posts to date and more recently I have committed to posting on half-geek everyday. I have really enjoyed the first 6 months of my blogging life. I am always looking for ways to improve my blog, so if you have any ideas or preferred topics please feel free to put them forward by commenting or using the contact form.
Just to let you in on a few figures, half-geek's reader's are predominantly from New Zealand, Australia and the United States. I have made 75 posts so far and have four or five posts in draft pretty much all the time these days.
In the future I think there will be a lot more talk about facebook on half-geek. As a result of this I have decided to start up a facebook category. I have tried to minimize the number of categories here on half-geek as I often find blogs that have like 50 categories to be a little hard to navigate.
Once again, please let me know if you disagree, I am happy to add more categories and discuss alternative topics if my readers demand it!
Thanks again- James
I have officially found the laptop of my dreams.
Its a new fujitsu thats sort of been moulded around the basic design principles of an iPod. Wicked.
And if I was not going to buy a laptop- this would be the keyboard I would have on my new PC.
Everyone has a hobby. Something that they do after hours or outside of work to relax. I have had a number of hobbies over the 27 point something years that I have been around so far. More recently (the last four or so years) I have taken a real shine to electronic music and turntablism.
I know, I know - everyone is a DJ these days, at least thats what I think. However I genuinely enjoy everything about electronic music and the art of mixing, that is to making two separate songs blend together seamlessly whilst remaining enjoyable to listen to. Electronic music is definitely the "Beatles" of my generation and as with most of my friends I began to enjoy listening to more specific genres of dance music. Progressive and uplifting type tracks became my favorite. At this point I found myself listening carefully to the way that various DJ's mixed the music that I enjoyed.
To cut a long story short, I played the drums for eight years during school and found basic DJing skills such as beat matching easy to comprehend. It takes alot of practice to be a great mixer of electronic Music. You need to train your ear in the same way that a traditional musician trains his/her ear over time. The only difference was that my instrument of choice was 2 Technics 1200 turntables and an Allen & Heath mixer fed by my new-found rampant vinyl habit.
I gave up mixing and sold my equipment after a couple of years. I was getting reasonably proficient in the basics and I had a good vinyl collection (about 350). I kept the vinyls............
Since the day I sold my Turntables to local DJ Karn Hall - there has not been a week where I have though about how much I would enjoy having a bit of a play on my Turntables. This was a unique thing for me as I typically change hobbies regularly (thanks to trademe for the re-funding support over the years) without ever thinking about them again.
I could not ignore the strong desire to get back behind the turntables. So meet the first addition to my new set-up. It's the latest top offering from Pioneer - the DJM800. I have decided to invest in CD format turntables (CDJ's) this time around. Although to be honest I am visualizing having both analogue (traditional vinyl players) and digital (CDJ) format players in my medium term set-up.
More photos and info on the rest of my set up as the shipments roll in..for the mean time heres a snap of the new Pioneer DJM800 mixer.
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