SoulTrackin’ – NetInfoWeb’s ‘SoulSites’ Aggregator Page…
Filed under: Blogosphere, Blues, DailyLinks, Gospel, Jazz, Latin Jazz, Music, Music News, Playlists, Podcasts, RIBS, SoulSites
Looking for soul music? Try the NetInfoWeb ‘SoulSites’ Aggregator Page! A ’single page aggregator’ listing 45 Soul, R&B and Jazz music sites for you to enjoy.
Over the weekend one of my new Twitter friends asked the following question…
“Anybody know of any good music sites?”
Now, that’s just the kind of question that this site, NetInfoWeb 2.0, was created to answer! After all, our byline *is* “Trackin’ the Sites, Trackin’ the SOUL!”
Ever since I revamped and refocused the site last year, it’s goal has been to seek and out and discover good websites and/or blogs that were talking about and promoting Soul, R&B, Jazz, Blues and Gospel music online. I try to point to my discoveries via these “SoulTrackin’” posts, in addition to keeping and maintaining a list of the sites I’ve found in the blogroll in the left sidebar.
One of the other things I have always wanted to do was to not only find and list good soul music websites (dubbed ‘SoulSites’), but also automatically list the titles of the headlines of new messages posted on these sites. The layout/functionality I wanted was similar to what you could find on the ’single page aggregators’ like POPURLS or Original Signal.
Fortunately, sometime over the summer I stumbled upon the Spotback website and their personalized news capability at News.Spotback.com. By using the NewsSnacks feature in this section I was able to create my own customized single-page aggregator for ‘SoulSites’ blogs that I had been thinking about.
In actuality, while the link to the NetInfoWeb ‘SoulSites’ Aggregator Page has been posted in the sidebar for sometime, I have never really promoted it much because I’ve been meaning to cleanup the list of sites it contained. Well, I finally got “A Round Tuit”, purged some sites, added some others and now the page is ready for its official unveiling.
Check it out and let me know what you think.
Here is the list of sites (in alphabetical order) that you’ll find on the NIW-SSAP:
- A Deeper Shade Of Soul
- About.com R & B
- Bending Corners: journeys in jazz-n-groove
- breath of life
- Brown Eyed Handsome Man
- Buffalo West Music
- Captain’s Crate
- Darcy’s Feel It
- ear fuzz
- EJ Flavors
- Event Calendar (Soul-Patrol)
- FiftyOne:FiftyOne
- Flea Market Funk
- floodwatchmusic.com
- Friday Favecast
- Fufu Stew
- Funky16Corners
- Galactic Fractures
- Get On Down With The Stepfather Of Soul
- Gospel Jazz Podcast
- Home of the Groove
- Honey Soul Music
- In Dangerous Rhythm
- Make Your Own Kind Of Music
- Martini & Jopparelli’s Music Selections
- Memphis Soul Blog
- NetInfoWeb 2.0
- osn (one soulful negro)
- R&B Quietstorm
- RIBS: Rhythms In Black Satin
- soul psychadelicyde
- soul sides
- SoulBounce.com
- Soulcialism
- SOULcrates
- Souled On (Music, Art, Politics and Life)
- The Blush Organization
- The Hits Just Keep On Comin’
- The Latin Jazz Corner
- The Memphis Sound: Lost and Found
- The Night Passage Jazz Podcast
- this is tomorrow
- UBM’s audio stash
- Uppity Music
- Voodoo Funk
BTW… a special “Thanks” goes out to seedoflife for asking the question and indirectly (and unknowingly {smile}) help me get that “round tuit”!
SoulTrackin’ – Black Internet Marketing Forum Now Online…
Filed under: Blogosphere, Internet Marketing, SoulTrackin'
Just found…
As I’ve mentioned on Black Business Space and earlier in this blog, I’ve committed to moderating a new internet marketing forum dedicated to the Black internet marketer called the Black Internet Marketing Forum. It’s now online (after some late-night tinkering over the last two days) and I intend to continue making improvements to the design while adding content and encouraging members to join.
It’s a free forum and I expect it to become the best of its kind. A subscription option is planned for much later once the membership numbers merit the option. Subscribers can expect to receive first shot at special members-only offers and programs that will take their businesses to the next level. For now, the free option will be one of the best values on the planet and your membership and contributions to our community of fellow marketers will pay serious dividends for networking, collaboration, and mutual progress.
So, What IS the Real “History of Blogging”?…
Ha, I love it! Nothing get the blogosphere more fired up than trying to define the ‘history of blogging’.
Yesterday I referenced Saturday’s Wall Street Journal article about the 10-year blogiversary of blogging. Now the blogosphere is in high gear with all sorts of corrections, criticisms and commentary on the “facts” presented in that article. I know this has nothing to do with the main music focus of this site (“Trackin’ the SITES, Trackin’ the SOUL”), but I have lived through the entire evolution of this thing we call blogging and I find it fascinatingly interesting. Here are a few links to some of the commentary:
rexblog.com: The history of blogging founding-myths–based solely on what I can rememberoff the top of my head
duncanriley.com: Wall Street Journal Tries To Re-Write Blogging History
Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard: There Is No “First Blogger”
Declan McCullagh (CNET): Blogs Turn 10–Who’s The Father? (referenced in the Rosenberg post)
While it is far beyond me to specifically identify who the very first blogger was/is, my blogging “forefathers” are (in no particular order) Cameron Barrett (Camworld), Jorn Barger (robot wisdom) and Dave Winer (Scripting News). AAMOF, Userland’s hosted Manila application (Dave Winer founded Userland) and the follow-up, Radio Userland, were my first two weblog platforms. Later I moved on to Blogger by Pyra Labs (now owned by Google) and finally to WordPress my current platform of choice.
Technorati Tags: blogs, blogging, history, camworld, robot wisdom, scripting news, WSJ
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