May 4, 2012: In the beginning of my first videos on youtube a reference is made to Just Barking in the Dark during the intro. I had totally forgotten about that, but it seems at least 5 people per day for more than the past year have been visiting this page because of it. Which is a pretty great conversion rate considering 40-60 people watch that video every day, consistantly for over a year, which just amuses me.
This clearly is not an old mainframe computer as I used a minimalist technique to imply, I just liked watching the YT videos about those old reel machines, and thought I'd make it look like I had a 'dumb' terminal with a typewriter and an old crt monitor with ASCII graphics I made up. Thus all my camera tutorials were presented as lessons recorded using older technology and accessable like an online video library, which considering the video is being watched in a similar manner with much more advanced technology is very meta(although I wanted more to just make a nice looking intro than to try to make something meta, that was accidental.)
This website is the heart of my network, with JBitD as my main YT channel, and as shown on the network page I will be adding other channels and other websites over time.
Go ahead and use the above navigation to look at the network or learn more about my objectives.
Please take a moment to view this video explaining the site transition.
"DarkroomDeveloping.net has begun!"
August 26th 2010
I am participating in "The Challenge" program by Ed Dale and others on youtube. To begin that project I have registered the domain darkroomdeveloping.net which will discuss, of course, developing your film at home and my perspective of the film vs digital debate. Hopefully the site will take off and I will learn alot of new things from those mentors. When it does I will get rid of the library as I've been attempting it hear and change that to 'Network' for other sites I'll launch.
"Support JBitD" Area Redesigned & Moar!
April 9th 2010
Full force renovation to bring the site up to professional expectations of a blog are resulting in sexy new css all over the site. That support area on the side previously just had the share this widget and an old red donate button. Now I've arranged categories for future expansion, and after replacing the button with pun text realized the cancel and successful payment pages were a year old with a missing css file. That led me to create a real donation page explaining exactly the goals the money will go toward, and fixing those reply pages.
The previous topics in the library where I scaled back from mechanical projects I couldn't afford to write DIY tutorials on..were scaled back on again. There were things like home geothermal install and solar power and such, but again ahead of their time. Now I've backed all the way to audio equipment where I can begin to earn commissions by creating better comparison charts and buying guides which everyone always wants but there never has been. It's a data entry job for now, but at least it looks awesome.
More to come! I will be completing the USB Microphone page today so you can understand better the charts I speak of, also I want to make my objective page become a philosophy link and replace it with site milestones and more solid objectives. Also, I'm working on a newsletter campagin and will get that into the site today. I've already installed an uptime monitor too!
