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[align=center][size=large]Blog-Fi? Blogging Functionality Added to Head-Fi[/size][/align]
I read blogs--too many of them. I tend to focus on industry-specific blogs (SEO and SEM, for example), and blogs about increasing productivity. Admittedly, blogging is something I've wanted to do for quite some time, but here, since this is my online home (I really am around a lot more than you guys might realize--it's just that most of my Head-Fi time is spent doing administrative stuff and responding to gobs of Head-Fi-related e-mails and PMs to the best of my ability).
Because this is pretty much my online home, a couple of years ago, I wanted to add blogging functionality that tied directly into Head-Fi's structure. I looked at a couple of different options last year, but didn't find anything that I found particularly elegant, in terms of true integration. Then I found out that Jelsoft (who makes vBulletin, our forum software) was going to release their own blogging add-in, and I was thrilled. Well, it finally came out of beta, was offered for sale as a vBulletin add-on, and we added it on a couple of weeks ago (but I haven't announced it until now).
I'm a blogging newb. I just started--here and now. I don't know exactly what I'll be blogging about, but it won't just be personal audio. So, whether you ever cared to or not, you're going to get to know more about me--I'm an Aquarius; I like walks in the park; I sheepishly admitted I had Fergie's "London" song on my playlist, buried deep within much hipper, groovier music on my iPod when sitting around with a bunch of hip Head-Fi'ers at HeadFest 2007 in San Jose (I only admitted it before the guys who were scrolling through my nano found it on their own
); I'm a motorsports nut; I have two large dogs and a cat who thinks he's a dog; I'm a husband and father; etc.
The thing is is that I know a lot of you visit Head-Fi as one of your primary hubs on the web. I look at who's online, and I see a lot of the same names--some of those names I've seen for years. I talk to Head-Fi'ers fairly regularly on the phone, and there are a lot of you who are infinitely more interesting than me (like, say, most of you), so I'd love to see some of you blogging here, too--a lot of you, ideally.
I'm a gadget guy, so I'll blog about gadgets. Again, I'm obsessed with always trying to be more productive, so I'll blog about that, too. Sometimes something will just cross my mind, and it might be boring, but, yes, I'll probably blog about those things also. Personal stuff? Sometimes. But I'm determined to be a regular blogger from now on, and this'll be where I'll be doing it. And I hope that as I continue to do it, that maybe I can run a personal blog that, as a whole, is a net-positive read (this, of course, remains to be seen).
In the last month, over 270,000 people came through Head-Fi, so we all have the potential to have our blogs exposed to an audience here, for whatever it's worth. So, if, like me, you've ever thought about or wanted to blog (but haven't yet started one--or even if you have), join me and blog with me here at Head-Fi.
And to kick things off, [size=small]here is my blog[/size].
I read blogs--too many of them. I tend to focus on industry-specific blogs (SEO and SEM, for example), and blogs about increasing productivity. Admittedly, blogging is something I've wanted to do for quite some time, but here, since this is my online home (I really am around a lot more than you guys might realize--it's just that most of my Head-Fi time is spent doing administrative stuff and responding to gobs of Head-Fi-related e-mails and PMs to the best of my ability).
Because this is pretty much my online home, a couple of years ago, I wanted to add blogging functionality that tied directly into Head-Fi's structure. I looked at a couple of different options last year, but didn't find anything that I found particularly elegant, in terms of true integration. Then I found out that Jelsoft (who makes vBulletin, our forum software) was going to release their own blogging add-in, and I was thrilled. Well, it finally came out of beta, was offered for sale as a vBulletin add-on, and we added it on a couple of weeks ago (but I haven't announced it until now).
I'm a blogging newb. I just started--here and now. I don't know exactly what I'll be blogging about, but it won't just be personal audio. So, whether you ever cared to or not, you're going to get to know more about me--I'm an Aquarius; I like walks in the park; I sheepishly admitted I had Fergie's "London" song on my playlist, buried deep within much hipper, groovier music on my iPod when sitting around with a bunch of hip Head-Fi'ers at HeadFest 2007 in San Jose (I only admitted it before the guys who were scrolling through my nano found it on their own
The thing is is that I know a lot of you visit Head-Fi as one of your primary hubs on the web. I look at who's online, and I see a lot of the same names--some of those names I've seen for years. I talk to Head-Fi'ers fairly regularly on the phone, and there are a lot of you who are infinitely more interesting than me (like, say, most of you), so I'd love to see some of you blogging here, too--a lot of you, ideally.
I'm a gadget guy, so I'll blog about gadgets. Again, I'm obsessed with always trying to be more productive, so I'll blog about that, too. Sometimes something will just cross my mind, and it might be boring, but, yes, I'll probably blog about those things also. Personal stuff? Sometimes. But I'm determined to be a regular blogger from now on, and this'll be where I'll be doing it. And I hope that as I continue to do it, that maybe I can run a personal blog that, as a whole, is a net-positive read (this, of course, remains to be seen).
In the last month, over 270,000 people came through Head-Fi, so we all have the potential to have our blogs exposed to an audience here, for whatever it's worth. So, if, like me, you've ever thought about or wanted to blog (but haven't yet started one--or even if you have), join me and blog with me here at Head-Fi.
And to kick things off, [size=small]here is my blog[/size].
