In the first of a new series of blog posts, I recall my early days and the circumstances that gave me a passion for radio — beginning with the pirate stations of the 1960s … On Monday the 14th of August 1967, at just after three o’clock in the afternoon, I sat alone in my [...]
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Blog Updated!
This site has been updated! It’s been moved to a new, faster and more robust server, upgraded to WordPress 2.7 and spruced up with a new look! I hope you like it as much as I do!
Anatomy Of A Stumble
The unprecedented popularity of my recent “Cold Comfort” post was all down to StumbleUpon. For three days, I was in seventh heaven as more and more friendly Stumblers helped my page hits escalate into the thousands — and then along came a reviewer who stopped my party in its tracks. I’ve written before about the [...]
True? Real? Confused?
This item recently appeared in the Detailed Info section of a new portal page for this website. WHERE THE TRUE AND THE REAL ARE OFTEN CONFUSED by Our Staff Reporter Kaye Mudd Established in April 2007, ‘Somerset’ Bob’s Place is the official web site for Bob Kingsley, a UK voice-over man and writer. Some people [...]
Purposeful Blogging Meme
What’s blogging all about? Why do we, who do it, do it? What are the strange attractors involved? Mel Kaye, the originator of this meme, came up with a number of reasons (and created a rather pleasing acronym in the process): Therapeutic –- satisfies the need to share experiences Improvement -– a channel by which [...]
The StumbleUpon Effect: Update
More concrete evidence showing how StumbleUpon increases traffic to your site. This info is based on events over the past couple of days. At 6.09pm BST on Thursday 19 July, Daniel Flora read and Stumbled my post titled The StumbleUpon Effect (which I had first Stumbled myself on 22 June). He also reported that he’s [...]
StumbleUpon: Some Answers
Further to my recent StumbleUpon Disaster! post, some answers have emerged courtesy of a couple of Stumble’s help groups. First, in StumbleUpon Help, where I went this morning intending to post a message outlining my problem, I found that tamburas had already posted a message yesterday with a similar problem: What does it mean when [...]
StumbleUpon Disaster!
Suddenly, I’m unable to Stumble my own posts using StumbleUpon. Aargh! Disaster! What’s going on? A few days ago, Adria from incinq — who first Stumbled my web site and who accidentally entered it in the main category “iPod” — was successfully able to change that main category, at my request, to “Writing”, which I [...]
Formula For Arrogance
I’ve been keen to write a post about a leading motor sport site that provides live timing for certain motor races. To help illustrate it I wanted to use a few screenshots of the timing screens to show how interesting the information is and how useful it can be to have it running on my [...]
The StumbleUpon Effect
Here is a clear glimpse of the StumbleUpon Effect, which I managed to capture in graphic detail after I conducted a little experiment over the past couple of days. I administer a web site for Benjamin Shepherd, an outstanding young classical pianist who’s just completing his final year of studies at Trinity College of Music [...]
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