Dear Rosa,
I was having some problems starting to write on this blog and Mieka Pauley of the Cambridge Folk scene suggested that I take a look at Josh Joplin’s website which gave me an idea. I am grateful to her and him for that.
And since you introduced yourself on Twitter (via Andrew Dubber’s New Music Strategies) and since you are in Hawaii and I am in Brazil and I would never have met you had there not been a computer, an internet and a Twitter, I decided to write this blog post to you. I’m having some trouble getting started in the blogging medium I confess and it is your article, “Internet Privacy: An Evolution” that my mind keeps returning to as a point of how to go ahead.
Some of what I work on is at what we might call a brochure-style website named DAKINI MUSIC. That would be step one in your list: “1. Traditional website (need to hire a webmaster).” So when I started to think how I could re-integrate what has been done at Dakini Music work with much older work I did as LIZ HAMILL , I decided to go to “Step 2: Blog platform (actually do it myself).” Somehow, I jumped up to “Step 6: Twitter” and then started following you.
So this post is an attempt to go back to Step 2. Right now I am in the final stages of an audio production of the great Indian Buddhist philosopher, Shantideva’s, The Way of the Bodhisattva. It is a thrilling project and the ten minute learning curve on WordPress for some has turned out to be something much larger for me. The production is going well but really the only thing that has gone well on the blog is the Hello Dolly plug in which at the moment says, “I can tell, Dolly.” Which is SO true!
You said, “With a blog there would be less ‘firewalls’ and people I did not know would easily be able to reach out to me. I liked the thought that there were those who would invite me into their lives for my aloha conversation; the thought that others would lurk in my life for unknown reasons terrified me. What made me take the plunge was not that I came to terms with that; it was publishing my book, and realizing that my contact information would be now public domain anyway… maybe the internet would at least give me a bread crumb trail to knowing who both followers and lurkers were. ”
Fortunate for us that you had your book as an impetus. I will try to follow your example with some songs and arrangements I did as someone who worked in the Avant Guarde Jazz scene at the New England Conservatory and the rich modern Folk Music community in New England.
Wishing you all happinesses,
Liz
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