Just Jace: A Blog About Blogging

You get an idea for a post - it might start out as just a few words, a title, a point or two - but how do you take the idea and mould it into a full post?

In he above video (see a full sized version of it here) I take you through a series of screenshots of a post that I wrote a few days ago on how to be a ruthless blogger and tell you about my posting workflow.

The workflow that I describe isn’t the same for every post that I write (some are obviously a lot less involved - but it does describe the way that I work on most of my feature length posts that you see here on ProBlogger.

I’d love to hear about your own blog posting workflow in comments below.

Thanks to ProBlogger.net for this great article

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WordPress 2.5 was a major version upgrade, so a complementary update was expected to fix any small bugs that would appear after its roll out.

Download It Here

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This is typical of ANY customer service

Customer: “I seem to have lost my IP address can you tell me what it is?”
Tech Support: “Just a minute, I’ll check.” (pause) “You’re using Win95 aren’t you? It’s a bit complicated. Click on Start.”
Customer: “Ok, I don’t need to do that–”
Tech Support: “Please do it my way, click on Start.”
Customer: “Ok.”
Tech Support: “Now click on Settings…Control Panel…Networks…TCP/IP…and now on Protocols, and there you are.”
Customer: “Yes, that’s where I was when I called you.”
Tech Support: “Well why call me? That’s where your IP address is, right in front of you.”
Customer: “Well, that’s where it should be, but mine’s all blank.”
Tech Support: “Well, what do you want me to do?”
Customer: “Can you tell me what it is?”
Tech Support: “Of course, just a second…why didn’t you ask me that in the first place?”

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Unfortunately it is not uncommon for professional and semi professional DJs to have ear damage. This should not come as a big surprise if you realize that at some clubs/venues the sound system can pump out 120 dB of sound pressure or more.

When you are mixing, either at home or at a club/venue you should make sure that the the volume of the monitor is JUST high enough to overshoot the delayed sound and echoes from the dance floor or living room.

If you feel the urge to really blast then turn up the master volume. Try to avoid turning up the monitor and headphone volume any more than you require to mix properly. Wearing ear protection in the form of simple foam earplugs is not a valid option. Using custom made professional earplugs is. (They are made-to-fit, formed to your own ears and do not make mixing more difficult because they take off a given constant amount of dB over the whole audible frequency range.)

Impaired hearing, if you are not careful enough (Read: if you are stupid enough) and actually get it, is something you will have to live with for the rest of your life!

Keep this in mind, it wouldd be a waste to ruin your ears. Now, it’s time to start mixing…

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So, I was just browsing around and checking out interesting sites when I found these kickass instructions to build a pocket amplifier out of a couple of parts totaling just barely $20.

Click here to see how to make it happen

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I found this cool site that will take any youtube video and convert the audio to mp3

http://www.listentoyoutube.com/

This is pretty cool for live performances that people post on youtube

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