Evolution of a Blog
Hey there. This is my first post that isn’t about guitar.
It has been just a few months since my first blog and video post, and there have already been nearly 20,000 views of my guitar videos on youtube. I never could’ve expected that!
It’s been an interesting evolution for me. This started out on a whim, recording a quickie review of my new guitar on my crappy webcam and throwing together a video in Windows Movie Maker. Then, as I started tweaking the electronics in my guitar, it evolved into a video diary of sorts. Now, I’m recording in high definition on a nice camcorder, with multiple microphones, close-ups, various camera setups, and using Sony Vegas Pro to edit it all together, with countless edits in each video!
My wife asks me, “so, what exactly are you getting out of it?” Well, there’s certainly no money in it! Some day in the far distant future, I may see a couple bucks from google AdSense, but I’ll believe it when I see it.
So what am I getting out of it? It is really rewarding to be able to contribute to an online community, and be able to correspond directly with folks who have similar interests. I’ve learnt so much online, it’s cool to be able to give something back. And I’m learning a lot in the process.
My two biggest inspirations for getting into this are Justin Sandercoe of justinguitar.com, a brilliant and kindhearted guitar teacher; and Marc Spagnuolo of thewoodwhisperer.com who manages to teach woodworking with flair and humor, and who is always willing to answer questions by email and on his blog. Great guys, both!
So far, I’ve only posted about my guitar projects, but I plan to start some new categories for some other subjects – woodworking, songs, gadgets, etc.
I enjoy hearing from you guys, so please get in touch by leaving comments, or sending an email. Thanks for reading!
Richard Hargrave
December 20, 2009 @ 12:31 pm
Hi, It’s nice to see your back online again, as productive as ever,never doing anything by half and inspiring so many people.It appears to be in your nature ? So now PlanetZ has guitars, who would have imagined. Good luck for 2010 I think it’ll be a good year
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H-Rave
John
December 20, 2009 @ 4:37 pm
Thanks for the kind words Richard! Happy New Year! 🙂
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