Mudcatters Blogs

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 04:06 PM

Hmmm...I'll have to see if I have OCR on here. I see MS uses scansoft which I have on my scanner, so maybe I do. I don't think the newspaper in WY was ever organised enough to get everything to electronic files. The ones I sent by email will have long ago been purged esp. as my editor/mentor died several years ago and the paper was bought out and changed for the worse and it was never that great anyway, but the only statewide one in WY, so lots of readership, plus it led to my column being reprinted in a national paper. Thanks for the ideas! I will call the paper, regardless.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 04:08 PM

Hey! You might be onto something, Simon. My Visioneer-One Touch scanner has some OCR something listed, so I think I can do that. How wonderful, thanks!

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Gorgeous Gary
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 09:12 PM

Hmm...swore I'd posted to this thread. I can be found here on LiveJournal. Mostly SF convention wrap-ups, concert reviews (when I remember), and the occasional engineering-related post.

-- Gary

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 09:33 PM

Kat, most scanners come with some kind of OCR program. You might want to try a couple of word processing programs to load it to, just for comparison. I usually drop scanned text into MS Word.

SRS

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Simon G
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 01:18 PM

Kat - You may have to play with the OCR settings to get it to work, but OCR should work well from newsprint. If your a competent touch typist the typing it in might still be faster.

Try searching for - web free service OCR - these might be useful, not tried them myself.

I generally use Adobe Acrobat Professional's OCR as I happen to have the product for work.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 02:46 PM

I love cow girls, Cuilionn.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 03:31 PM

Thanks, Simon and SRS. I will try these out.

PS. I was going to try it now, but find the scanner needs to be hooked up from its recent move. That will have to wait for Rog, tonight.:-<

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Mysha
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 05:38 PM

Hi,

Well, if you really collect the whole set: Occasionally, I post something on http://www.vkblog.nl/blog/37739/Kladbloch. Not really a lot of words to read, though, and not everyone would be able to read the few words there. Plus, my latest entries are sort of being published on a Frisian news site instead, so you'd have to use a search engine to get at those.

Bye,
                                                                  Mysha

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: nigelgatherer
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 05:56 AM

One of my enthusiasms is mildly rare recordings...

http://themusicgatherer.blogspot.com/

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 16 Jan 10 - 07:09 AM

It occurs to my that my chorus site qualifies as a blog; I'm supposed to update it monthly and sometimes it even happens!

http://www.animaterrasings.org/

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: ranger1
Date: 04 May 11 - 09:07 PM

I don't keep up with them as often as I should, but Kendall thinks I ought to share them with more people.

This one is for my dad: Letters to my Dad

And this one is mostly nature writing: Rants From the Woods

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Colin Randall
Date: 05 May 11 - 04:36 AM

I sometimes post links here to specific items at my music blog - Salut! Live - which, with greatly varying levels of conscientiousness, reports on and reviews folk, folk-rock etc ...

But since the original post asked for non-music sites, too, here goes:

*   Salut! deals with France, the media, language, travel, social affairs, music sometimes and more ...

*    Salut! Sunderland is further evidence of insanity, a very busy blog on the ups and, more often, downs of Sunderland football club ...

* Salut! North is a collection of memories from the North East of England. It started well enough, when I was kicking my heels in a succession of hotels while working in Abu Dhabi, but has been woefully neglected ...

The football one in particular gets respectable hits, currently averaging 1000 unique visits daily, Salut! usually runs between 150 and 400 but has been higher (and lower), Salut! Live benefits from those links here and elsewhere but struggles to get beyond 100 and is usually much lower. Salut! North gets what it deserves, single figures most days.

And now, having managed to miss this thread since it began, I am going to explore some fellow Mudcatters' musings.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Simon G
Date: 05 May 11 - 12:43 PM

Its wonderful to see ones thread revived.

Roll on more bloggers.

Simon

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: GUEST,closet-folkie
Date: 05 May 11 - 02:01 PM

Confessions of a Closet-Folkie

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: GUEST,Philip W
Date: 07 May 11 - 05:13 AM

I have a general one on music and literature: Brush on Drum

And one specifically on Sandy Denny which gets a gratifying number of hits.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: DrugCrazed
Date: 07 May 11 - 08:21 PM

Less of a blog and more of a site, I run a gaming review/news/rant site: How To Play

Any recording I do under the name of Himself (Go terrible name! Which I could very easily change if I wanted to. The advantages of being an unknown...) is here

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Alice
Date: 08 May 11 - 12:55 AM

Mostly about art and illustration, but also my life in general -

http://aliceflynn.wordpress.com/

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: CapriUni
Date: 08 May 11 - 02:17 AM

I have one that I started just last month:

, for discussing the images and issues surrounding the experience of Disability in Folklore, &c.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 08 May 11 - 02:39 AM

Wow! Where to start. So many of you at it. How does this work - do you all do it for yourself, or do you have regular readers?

What can it all mean Batman......?

Durned if I know Robin, but I bet The Penguin's behind it all!

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: DrugCrazed
Date: 08 May 11 - 06:17 AM

@Alan, I do it so I have a portfolio for journalism. Though we do appear to have some people reading it - 1642 different people read it last month :)

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: ranger1
Date: 08 May 11 - 07:12 PM

I do it mostly for myself, but I do have a few regular readers.

DrugCrazed: wow! A fellow gamer on a folkie site!