Comments on: Kiwi Ukulele, ezFolk and other Uke Links

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:41:53 +0000

ezFolk will be taking me over pretty soon now the doodad is on all its pages. But I'm working for the enemy now. Though I'm not writing about ukuleles, which sort of proves my point.

By: Cardboardfrog

Cardboardfrog — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:06:50 +0000

tbh woodshed, i wouldn’t worry too much, i don’t think you’ll lose the topspot any time soon

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:25:10 +0000

Laz: Curt emailed this which I think was intended as a reply to you: “I agree with that. Its not a race. I think a links page on a site is better with the webmaster of the site highlighting what site would be good to visit. I visit all the site I have listed on my site.

I’ll probably contact top 50 site and have my stuff removed and add the specific ukulele site I have.”

Isaac: Wow, you’re much more observant than I am. You give me far too much credit. It was a cock-up.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:18:49 +0000

I saw this blog was filed under Christmas and links – and given that the date was July 25th, which in Australia is sometimes called ‘Christmas in July’ I thought it might be a subtle reference.

By: Ukulala

Ukulala — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:11:58 +0000

Hi Curt- No disrespect intended, I am a big fan of your site.

I do however like the idea of the Top 50 list as a useful guide for which sites ukulele players and enthusiasts visit most. I’ve found a lot of great sites off that list, BUT if I were running the top 50 list, I’d request that the tracker be inside the ukulele section of a larger site like yours, rather than on the main page. I hope your redesign doesn’t remove you entirely, it should accurately reflect your site’s uke traffic.

On the OTHER hand, I think there is an unfortunate competitive aspect surrounding the list that I’m not entirely comfortable with anyway. If I didn’t get about 5% of my traffic from it, I’d probably remove myself…. The uke sites definitely should be collaborating and sharing, not competing for hits…..

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:11:42 +0000

You’re welcome, Mike. Good luck with the book tour (something else to add to the list of reasons I don’t do real books).

How different is the final version to the Kete version you sent me? Do you want me to wait until I’ve got the final version before I do a full write up?

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:35:44 +0000

Aww, thanks for the plug! Amazed the book is actually, finally, done (and Woodshed can take some credit for that). I’ll be furiously uploading sample pages, strum MP3s and so on to the Kiwi Ukulele website over the next week. Then I have to practise some family-friendly repertoire for the (gulp) book tour. As most of my favourite songs are about drugs and divorce, this might be tricky.

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:46:56 +0000

Isaac: You’ve lost me. Christmas in July?

Laz: As soon as you start challenging for the top, our truce is off ;)

Lonna: I do fear this will be all we hear of him. Let’s hope not.

Curt: Well, you have got guitar listed ahead of uke.

By: Curt Sheller

Curt Sheller — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:30:36 +0000

I wouldn’t really call my site a “general” site, whatever that means. My site is “heavy” uke and pretty much the main focus of my playing and publishing effort. That and some guitar.

Anyhow, in my latest redesign I dropped the top 50 uke site badge and other badges anyway. So my numbers will be dropping will drop.

By: LonnaB

LonnaB — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:39:48 +0000

Wow- I agree with you about Oly, what a great tune. We must hear more!