Festivus For The Rest Of Us
Tonight was our Missions Festivus at BTBF. We celebrated the work God has done through our students this summer. Many of you who read this blog were there, so I'll spare you the revisitation. However, I will say that I feel like it was done very well. The video-driven aspect was very cool to me. Props to Mike H for the writing, directing, shooting, composing, and editing. (Not to mention, staring in! You can hear his voice in one scene shouting "it's time to get up!" or something like that. Give the man his Oscar)I liked being offstage tonight. I got a great perspective of a lot of aspects of the service, from planning to running. Plus, I got to wear a cool headset and tell people what to do and when to do it. Not that I have issues with power or control... By the way, I had to mention the headset, because I think Allie was expecting me to blog about it, and I didn't want to let her down.
Ok, here's where I need some feedback. I've been looking for a way to manage a personal website of which I could post my music. If you've never heard of Macjams.com, it's amazing. I'll be reviewing it tomorrow night. However, it's just a posting site, and not for personal maintainence or editing. All signs point to....sigh....Myspace. I do NOT want to become a statistic. Nor do I want to do what every other musician/band in the world does. Why? Hmm...I don't know. MySpace's reputation to me is just tainted with all kinds of stupidity. I would really appreciate some feedback from those of you who operate a myspace or have any wisdom to shed on the idea. Bottom line, I'm looking for a site that offers these features: Operational control, html editing, feedback options, visual customization, and community. What bites is that I just described Myspace. I guess I'm asking if you know of any other site group, or if Myspace is truly the way to go and I should just get over it.
Well, it's Wednesday, and I've officially reached the half-way mark of Make 7Up-Dates Yours Week. I stayed up making a 7up logo but it turns out the web settings were all off. Bummer.
I am starting to feel like I'm violating a certain blogging etiquette by posting everyday. I'm not trying to set up a Blogger Monopoly or hog attention. The expectation is not for everybody I know to read my blog everyday, so I hope it doesn't feel that way. But if you've made it this far in this post, thank you very much for reading!
Coming this week: Macjams.com review, a new music feedback forum for my personal music, and maybe I'll jump on the band wagon and rate some movies I love and hate.
Stay classy.
posted by Seth @ 7:54 PM
3 Comments:
Blogger has a beta with a bunch of new features, but I don't know about music. Myspace isn't so bad if can control the ads....
You might find a good alternative from this guy's blog.
Mike told me about something similar to Myspace, only less lame. For the record, I hate Myspace.
Nice job taking the turn....looking forward to more.
As much as myspace sucks--the fact that everyone uses it makes it a great networking tool--that is, when it doesn't crash my browsers or just stop working, or erase my profiles, or...
If you're looking to sell, check out mperia.com It's a great place to post music and have people take a look.
But for the amount of control it sounds like you want--why wouldn't you just buy a domain name for $7 from godaddy.com--which comes free with 5 gigs of storage--and make your own site? They even have some site building tools if you don't want to code too much--or there's plenty of good html editors out there as free shareware.
I think deerman over there is reffering to facebook--which doesn't allow you to post music, as far as I know.
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