That may explain why my email box was full of inquiries this morning. And the blog only allows 100 authors, so if ya want in ya gotta do it now.
The early numbers for the blog definitely aren't "flat".
I have received email from many Houston jocks - most wanting to be added as an author on the blog. The author numbers grow every day. I don't want to play blog police with ya'll (I don't have time and we're all grown ups here anyway), so I thought we might all get together and set up some "rules" to play.
Some responders have asked questions I thought I'd put up for discussion
l) Name vs screen name?
Let's use our air names here. Dontcha think? We have other message boards that many of us post on using faker names than our air names! Since we are playing nice on this blog I think we should, don't ya'll?
We talked on the Radio-Info board about wanting to have a place to reconnect and share stories and updates on careers and lives with former and current co-workers and radio friends. A former co-worker who lives in Tulsa now won't know you by some weird screen name.
2) Should we limit the blog to just jocks or can we include former sales people, office staff, promotions people?
I don't care one way or the other. I'd like it to be just jocks but some of my best friends in radio weren't jocks.
3) What kind of links should we keep on the side bar?
I think it should be personal websites (MySpace, Facebook, blogs etc). While a few radio related links are cool with me - and once we get a lot I'll separate personal and business related ones - let's get the personal ones on first. That way we can all take a look at what others are up to on their sites.
4)Labels? Who makes 'em?
Labels are the link at the bottom of each post that describes the category of the post. It makes locating similar entries a lot easier. I can add a generalization of them or you can add them as we go.
I find on my other blogs that if you get too many variations it is more confusing than helpful.
We could do broad ones like: radio history, on air mishaps, looking for a former co-worker. Maybe each station's calls could be a different category. You can add as many as you like to each post.
When you want to see all the posts that are about, say, old studio photos, you just click that label and it pulls up all of them in that category.
Just let me know.
5. Vulgarity.
Let's keep it as PG-13 as we can. The blog is available for anyone to read - unless you want me to set it private? I'm for keeping it on the cleanish side. Coolio?
6. Advertising
I've added a Google ad at the bottom because, well, if I make a buck or two for my time it's gravy. I will remove it if anyone objects.
I don't plan on selling advertising on this site. But if the opportunity comes up in the future it might be something we can discuss. I'm thinking any ad money we may make on this thing can go to a general fund for out bar tab at the reunion parties!!
Again, I'm doing this gratis - like much of my work at KIKK in the first years of this century (Ha!) - so the sooner I can make this functional and be done with the set up, the sooner I can go sit by my pool and enjoy being a semi retired social drinker! I have a variety of tools I use for all my blogs and websites - many I'm already paying for through my booking agency. I can try and adapt some of them here - including a newsletter so we can send private info back and forth without having anyone and everyone read things.
Anything else?
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