Mudcatters Blogs

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!

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: GUEST,closet-folkie
Date: 05 May 11 - 02:01 PM

Confessions of a Closet-Folkie

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 15 Jan 10 - 02:46 PM

I love cow girls, Cuilionn.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Simon G
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 02:14 PM

scanning them in with OCR might help. Alternatively have you tried the newspaper for electronic archives of your columns?

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 01:43 PM

Thanks, Simon. I lost all of my PC files which had all of my columns, so, in order to all them all, I have to either type each one in, from the newspaper clippings OR hone my voice recognition software and read them in.:-) It is a project I mean to do, though, so I appreciate the encouragement.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Simon G
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 01:35 PM

katlaughing - you going to have to add to it, now you've told us about it. Keep the words flowing.

Simon

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Jan 10 - 12:32 PM

I completely forgot I'd started a blog as an archive for my op/ed column, "A MindfullSpoken" from the 1990s HERE. I need to add more to it.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: oldhippie
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 06:56 PM

I post my radio show playlists here:

http://djfrank-myplaylists.blogspot.com/

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 06:20 PM

www.ronolesko.blogspot.com

I started mine a few years ago, but I've been having some computer issues this year and I have not been able to update as often as I like.   Rather than make it a "personal" blog, I tried to make it more of a folk music news site.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: John Hardly
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 06:12 PM

John Hardly's Pottery Blog

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 05:10 PM

Thanks for doing this thread, Simon. And yes, SRS, I've been reading the Thieme, Cooney, Muldaur thread. Art has been a deear friend most of my adult life, and I did an opening act for Michael Cooney many years ago that resulted in my first booking as a main "act" at the Sounding Board in Hartford. I've heard Muldaur perform, going back to the early 60's, but can't say I've ever "met" him. That's a very interesting juxtaposition of three people I wouldn't normally associate, with Muldaur being the wild card. Art and Michael certainly plowed the same fields.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Simon G
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 03:49 PM

Sorry, I'll try again, correcting the incorrect link. 18 all together with such a wonderful spread of interests.

Blogs so far

Jerry Rasmussen - Thoughts on Faith
David Franks - Walkabouts Verse
Ian Burdon - Riding the Waves to Eternity
Laurel Paulson-Pierce - Open Mike
Cuilionn - CowGaels in Tir na Blog
Joe F - come_to_think
Dave Shiflett - dave shiflett
Debra Cowan - A Folksinger Singing Good Songs Old and New
Nathan Tompkins - Nathan Tompkins's Page
R Wilhelm - Murder by Gaslight
katlaughing - AlterKATE
Stilly River Sage - A woman of many parts
Stilly River Sage - Two Cents At A Time
Mike Regenstreif - Folk Roots/Folk Branches
Dave Bishop - Friends of Chorlton Meadows
Allison Aldrich - Building our First Day Cottage
Rod Warner - WORDSANDMUSIC
Gavin Atkin - intheboatshed.net

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Simon G
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 03:46 PM

Blogs so far (hope the links all work

Jerry Rasmussen - Thoughts on Faith
David Franks - Walkabouts Verse
Ian Burdon - Riding the Waves to Eternity
Laurel Paulson-Pierce - Open Mike
Cuilionn - CowGaels in Tir na Blog
Joe F - come_to_think
Dave Shiflett - dave shiflett
Debra Cowan - A Folksinger Singing Good Songs Old and New
Nathan Tompkins - Nathan Tompkins's Page
R Wilhelm - Murder by Gaslight
katlaughing - AlterKATE
Mike Regenstreif - Folk Roots/Folk Branches
Dave Bishop - Friends of Chorlton Meadows
Allison Aldrich - Building our First Day Cottage
Rod Warner - WORDSANDMUSIC
Gavin Atkin - intheboatshed.net

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: GUEST,Gavin Atkin
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 02:59 PM

http://intheboatshed.net

I like to include genuine sea songs from time to time, though it's mainly about boats and boatbuilding etc...

Gav

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: GUEST,Guest - Rod Warner
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 02:53 PM

Hi - I hope it's ok to mention my blog on here as a frequent reader of Mudcat - I find it useful for info on the UK folk scene of the sixties/seventies as I'm writing a book which references back to those days. Some of the ongoing discussions seem an odd mixture of twee, informative and amusing (deliberatedly or accidentally)- just been scanning the one on McColl recently which is all of that and more. But a democracy of voices will never please everybody - which is what makes the site so fascinating. Floreat Mudcat... My main interests on my blog lean towards free jazz/experimental musics ( and I do occasional downloads but only of single tracks, for a limited period, usually obscure and a taster for the albums if available - more as vehicles to write about and for fun) but I've just checked and found that I've written more reviews of folk/acoustic related gigs than I realised since I started out in July 2005. I see 'folk' as a collection of musics I still love - and occasionally hate! Blog is here...
words and music

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Simon G
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 02:50 PM

Dave

I'm in Nova Scotia the route here was

Didsbury, Manchester 1.5 years
Shaw (North of Oldham) 1.5 years
Oldham 8 years
Standish 16 years
Maghull 0.5 years
Standish 4 years
Lawrencetown Nova Scotia, 0.25 years

Here is a map for you.

Simon & Sandra lived here

Simon

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 01:46 PM

Jerry, take a look at the Art Thieme, Geoff Muldaur, Michael Cooney thread. I'll bet you could play that "six degrees of separation" game someone suggested also. I wish any of those guys kept blogs. There are web sites, but not ongoing conversations. I am glad that Art has donated so much of his stuff to the Smithsonian, and I hope links are made back to it from other music bloggers.

SRS

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 12:59 PM

Hey, Simon: '78-'79 WAS a long time ago. If I met myself as I was back then, I'm not sure I'd recognize me. :-)

Jerry

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: GUEST,Dave Bishop
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 12:21 PM

Where are you now, Simon?

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 12:13 PM

My house-building blog, which is temporarily dormant but soon to be renewed, is here.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Simon G
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 12:07 PM

The Friends of Chorlton Meadows took me back. I used to live nearby in 78-79. It seems such a long time ago.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: GUEST,Dave Bishop
Date: 09 Jan 10 - 06:22 PM

Here in South Manchester, UK I am the chair of a group of community volunteers called 'The Friends of Chorlton Meadows'. Chorlton Meadows are in the valley of the River Mersey which flows through South Manchester. We are interested mainly in the natural history of the area and our blog is here: http://friendsofchorltonmeadows.blogspot.com/

I hope that the blue clicky works!

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 09 Jan 10 - 04:47 PM

Thanks for the link, Mike. Your blog looks brill.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Mike Regenstreif
Date: 09 Jan 10 - 04:22 PM

I have a blog called Folk Roots/Folk Branches with Mike Regenstreif.

Mike Regenstreif

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 09 Jan 10 - 04:12 PM

I must say, I'm really enthusiastic about this blog stuff. I've been able to figure everything out with no problems. I posted a link on my blog to soundclick so that people can hear some of my music. The link is http://soundclick.com/jerryrasmussen.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Jan 10 - 12:49 AM

Thanks, Jerry!

There are a lot of reasons for writing for blogs, and a decent writer can make a big impact. Deciding to pay for the site, to have a domain name, etc, or to have advertising or other underwriting is a step you don't have to take to be taken seriously. I'm hoping to do more on the organic gardening next year, to look at where the costs are in gardening and understanding that some of the expense is because people haven't figured out that they need to get their hands dirty in the bug management end of things. But I'll save the rest of that for another day. . .

SRS

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 08 Jan 10 - 04:52 PM

I thought the pecan essay was delightful, and I don't just compliment people to make them feel good. But go ahead.

Feel good.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jan 10 - 04:29 PM

I've been blogging about organic gardening and natural history issues for quite a while. I was first posting stuff on an organic gardening site, and decided after a while to set up my own blog.

Here it is and it links to a few other forums where I am active. That pecan essay isn't great, I was trying to finish it up when I really needed to be doing something else so I kind of flew through it, but some of the others further back were better-written. And I have several files I've started with text that I'll have to dig out photos and put up.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Jan 10 - 03:28 PM

Nathan, nice pix and great writing. So good to see you doing so!

I started one last Fall before the election but lost steam once Obama won. I have a new one about my personal journey through depression and changing myself as I start a new seven year cycle, but I don't think it would be of much interest to most of you. A few of the women are following it, but I haven't posted an update in a few weeks...must do that soon. Here is a A random picking..other entires are listed.

Jerry, I've thought of using a blog to post excerpts from chapter of a couple of novels I will be publishing, one this year, and the other by next, I hope...but I've been reluctant to just "put it out there" I guess because of copyright issues. I know I can note it is copyrighted, but not sure that would stop anyone...of course that's assuming someone would like it that much!:-)

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Simon G
Date: 08 Jan 10 - 12:17 PM

Jerry, I'm certainly not assuming I'll never be a writer, but I know I am not today. I'm 22 years behind you so have plenty of time to learn, if its part of my part of God's journey.

Over the last 5 years I've enjoyed learning a little about how to tell a story by singing a song and its been wonderful to tell stories using songs that others have written. Through the gift of their songs, writers have given me the chance to learn so much more about communication. I'll keep learning and see where is takes me.

It is a great pleasure to meet you here and I am quite excited about learning more about you on your blog.

Just read cuilionn's post from a couple of days ago

http://mainecowgaels.blogspot.com/2010/01/another-leveraged-bale-out.html

I was out in the field with the cows, cheering on the bale as it got closer and closer.

Without writers like you guys the world would be a much duller and less understood place.

Simon

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: RWilhelm
Date: 08 Jan 10 - 11:55 AM

Here's my blog of 19th Century American murders: Murder by Gaslight

which includes a few links to DT lyrics.

Subject: RE: Mudcatters Blogs
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 08 Jan 10 - 11:25 AM

Hey, Simon: One of the immediate rewards of creating my blog is meeting you. It's taken me 73 years to think of myself as a writer. I've been a songwriter most of my life, but somehow that didn't seem to make me qualify. What I've discovered as I've accepted that I am a writer (and I guess I can call myself an Award Winning Writer, as my book recieved an award as one of the six finalists in the National New Book Awards for 2009) is that in the long run, it's all story telling. Not all story tellers are writers, but all writers are story tellers.

My new blog is a wonderful blessing for me. It's a channel for putting down in words the stories I see all around me. It's not that different from the introduction to a song.

Don't assume that you aren't a writer, Simon. If you enjoy telling stories, you have the basic foundation to be a writer.

You might try it some time...

Jerry