Thursday, October 1, 2009

I think this blog is a failure

I've concluded that this blog as a medium for editing my rendition of the Divine Comedy has been a genuine failure on at least two levels.

first: I tried to use this blog space as a medium to do interactive editing on my version of Dante since I started no one has made a single comment on anything.

second: I've had fewer than ten viewers every day since I started doing this. I've sent this url to everyone I can think of who I thought would be interested in this and I doubt if it's been very interesting to them

third: the snails pace at which I have been transcribing the Comedy has made this blog a very boring place to visit often I have cut up the gaps between installments with youtube stuff which is largely irrelevant to the subject matter (Dante).

I think that this is becoming a useless exercise in naval gazing and is just adding an extra step to my process. A step I thought would be helpful and fun but which is becoming tedious and constantly apologetic. That's not good reading and it sucks to write.

I'm not giving up on Dante and I'm not giving up on Wiresource but I think the two together is like nuts and gum: great on their own terrible together.

I'm not sure what I'll do with this url now but I hope it's more enjoyable than telling you why I'm sorry the Dante transcriptions are late this time.

peace.

3 comments:

steveK said...

Hi, I only just found my way to this blog now. I think its great and am sorry you are thinking about giving it up. Maybe think of the blog more as a tool to help you organize your thoughts, have a commitment (soft, albeit) to complete work and publish,etc. Then you don't care if anyone sees it, its really just to help you. Anyway, I think it was very inspired to bring these two worlds together (both which I happen to really love) - Dante and modulars!

metasonix said...

I'll comment if it will help your attitude.....

FWIW, please keep working on it. I can offer some ideas for getting attention. For example: create accounts on Digg, Reddit, Myspace, Metafilter, Boing Boing, and POST TO THEM about your work.

eddie said...

Hello I'm relatively new to modular synths and it was your review of the Vostok that convinced me to take the plunge into getting one for myself as a starting point. Please keep it up!