I like the idea of being open and sharing as much information as is needed, while still respecting people’s privacy. I’m not sure if I’m going to do these on a regular basis, but I figured I’d do this one and see how it went and what sort of reactions it got.
First, the site is now officially 1 month old! That’s right, we’ve been at this for a whole month. Time flies when you’re having fun! Here’s our first article:
Shake Rattle and Roll (Which seemed like a fitting starting song.)
In the past month, we’ve about 1,200 visitors and displayed 3,700 pages to you, our guests. That’s actually fantastic growth and shows that there’s quite a bit of interest in the subject.
We’ve added a forum, where you can get help or offer to help other people in their quest to keep the stories alive. There’s more to come on this front, and the goal is to facilitate collaboration within our little community.
If you haven’t already done so, now would be an excellent time to go ahead and register for the site. Registration is painless and you can use any ol’ information you want in the fields – though a real email address is required. Registration also automatically signs you up as a participant in our forum. After some testing, there’s some hope of adding more features to that – but it’s chock-full of features already.
We take your personal information pretty damned seriously. If you’ve missed it, then you may wish to see this notice. We have an obligation to keep your data private and secure, and that’s a priority.
Our most popular page was a user contributed forum post. You can see it here and it was posted by user 65n85tunes. We’d like to take a moment to thank them for their contribution and it’s great to discover new music, the history behind it, and another chapter in the history of the music we all love.
To date, we’ve published some 30 articles (with 3 additional meta articles), 13 forum topics with 22 replies, and have 8 registered users.
If you’re not interested in joining us, but would like to receive notifications when there’s an article posted (every day, at about 16:30 Eastern), then you can sign up for notifications on your right. Just insert any old valid email address and whatever name you’d like the software to call you, and then check your junk/spam folder to confirm the email address really belongs to you.
To avoid spamming people, we use the double-confirmation method and you’ll have to click a link to show the software that the email address really belongs to you. We do our best to be good Netizins and it is a hassle, but we’re willing to do it. If you have trouble confirming your email, let us know and we’ll help you out.
So, here’s to a good first month and to many more months of keeping the music alive.
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I am *not* going to submit this to the various other sites. I’ve not submitted any of the meta content to the various aggregation sites. However, other people are welcome to do so and even encouraged to do so.
I’m also curious about any feedback folks may have with regards to the subject of doing these on a regular basis. I can’t devote a specific time period to them, this site isn’t my absolute priority in life, but I can (probably) continue to do them indefinitely. So, if folks find ’em interesting and want more, then I’ll keep them going.
For now, my plan is to keep them going for a few months and see how they do, but feedback during that trial period is always appreciated.
Again, thanks to the folks who visit every day, comment, and encourage. We’ll keep the stories alive, one way or another. It’s not my work, I just do the administration and formatting.