New Media Moghuls

We had another meeting of Blog Standard last night in the new room made available to us in the Peter Froggatt Centre at QUB. Ghastly room -like a class - and the first thing I had to do was declare that I am not a teacher, as all the new members sat in the rowed chairs waiting for a pronouncement or instruction.

But the equipment was good.

Raymond McCullough came so I got him to do a presentation on his podcasting venture, Celtic Roots.
He gets thousands of downloads of the music he plays.

Raymond shows how he uploads music to a free hosting site Podomatic and recommended it as a site that is easy to use.
There are others, of course, like Podcastpeople, Soundcloud and Divshare.

Bobballs did a presentation on his site and discussed, among other things, the jeopardy of libel actions or threats of them.

But for me the star of the night was David Vance, founder of A Tangled Web

Vance talked of the incredible energy that he puts into two sites and his twitter account to keep his blogs alive. His output is greater than that of many working journalists and his skills and experiences would qualify him to be a senior editor on a newspaper.

At the same time he argues that he is sidelined by the media for holding views that don't accord with a 'liberal consensus'.

He wasn't there to give a political lecture and the key point he made is that the best way to keep a blog alive and to win followers is to add content every day.