What do you so wish?

Stef and I made a website. Now we made it so you can cut and paste the wishing code into your blog to display a speech bubble like this. And when I say “we” made it… I mean Stef.

Last week I came up with a silly idea for a website. A place you could make a wish. That was kind of it. My name is Andrew, and I wish for a pony. That sort of thing.

And then people would come along and make their own wishes, or see that you’d wished for a pony and go ‘I wish that too!’. Very simple, dumb stuff - but the sort of thing that people seem to like.

I so wish…

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My website New Music Strategies is offline. I’ve been getting a lot of email about that. So I’ve put together a stock response, and it gets emailed out to everyone who enquires. Essentially it explains the fact that I’m moving hosts, and the old guys are being generally unpleasant.

I was coming to the end of my contract with the old hosts, and all of my other sites (including this one) are hosted at GoDaddy. The idea was that I would do a seamless move from one to the other. That didn’t happen.

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Yep, that slide really says ‘Better Blogger Workflow’…

So… the conference. I went to Chicago for a conference, not just to go to jazz gigs, wander around and look at public art, travel on the local rail (it’s called the ‘L’ train because it’s short for ‘Elevated’ - who knew?), drink in bars and buy records.

From an outsider’s perspective, this was about as geeky as it’s possible to get. A room full of bloggers, discussing blogging, all of them with their laptops open, all of them learning how to blog in such a way that they don’t have to do anything else in order to make a living. Just blog.

Yes - this was Biz School for Bloggers.

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