If you are new to The Bluegrass Blog, or blogging in general, here is a table of contents for the introductory articles on this site. These articles explain the concept of “blogging” and the purpose of this site. Each link will take you to the page for that article.
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For those unfamiliar with the term, the word "blog" is a contraction of its original name, "web log." A blog might best be described as a web-based publication consisting of a number of posts, with new posts added on a regular basis. Each post is generally a brief article written by the author(s) of...
If you are a new reader of The Bluegrass Blog - and maybe to blogging in general - you may find answers to a lot of common questions here.
What is a blog?
How often is The Bluegrass Blog updated?
Why are the newest posts on the top of the page?
What are the Category links?
What are Tags?
What...
Welcome to The Bluegrass Blog. A central clearinghouse for bluegrass news and information of interest to anyone who follows bluegrass music. We are still working on the site design and layout, but hope to launch very soon. We'll start with a series of articles about what blogging is, and how it can benefit...
All this talk about the potential value of The Bluegrass Blog may sound intriguing, but what does it matter without a steady stream of visitors and readers?
We have a plan in place to advertise and promote this new site at launch which we feel certain will generate a great deal of initial interest....
From time to time, we will include posts which do not offer news or specific information, but instead feature commentary or opinion on a topic related to the theme of The Bluegrass Blog: bluegrass music, artists, events and fans - or the music business that supports us all.
These Viewpoint posts...
IBMA members are accustomed to receiving a copy of the organization's bimonthly publication, International Bluegrass, in the mail six times each year. Starting with the current March/April issue, most of the articles that make up each edition will be viewable from the IBMA web site. Nancy Cardwell, who...
Now in it's 11th year, Flatpicking Guitar Magazine has just released a series of CD-ROM compilations containing articles and tablatures from the Best of the First Ten Years of the magazine.
The series consists of 4 discs, each pulling articles on a specific topic from back issues of the magazine published...
Brance has mentioned that we have a number of fabulous Guest Contributors lined up for the next few weeks. We've done so both to keep new content on The Bluegrass Blog while he is away next week (on his honeymoon!), and while I spend Christmas with my family, but also to give a slightly different flavor...
This is the first in a series of Viewpoint articles I'm working on concerning digital technology and bluegrass. It is intended to be an introduction to the topics I want to discuss and to give you the opportunity to suggest topics I may have overlooked. Here's a list of the topics for which I have planned...
That's right folks, we've been blogging for over a year now. It's hard to believe really. As I was thinking about it this morning I went back and looked at some of the first posts John and I drafted for the blog. Our first post was made on 7/17/2005 and was simply background information on who John and...
U.S. News and World Report has an interesting article online from their current issue. While focused mainly on corporate blogs, we felt some of the content might be of interest to the bluegrass community. Here are a couple of excerpts.
While discussing who reads blogs. ~
Only 27 percent of Internet...
After looking over some of the old posts I just mentioned in the last post, I thought it would be interesting to bring you an update of our first news post. It was July of 2005 and we reported to you about the prevalence of blogs in the online world. See that post here.
At that time 27 percent of...
This afternoon, I had a lovely chat with Lynn Morris and Marshall Wilborn. Longtime bluegrass fans are well familiar with Lynn’s many years as a performer, bandleader and friend to our music, and we all felt a great loss when she suffered a stroke in Match of 2003, keeping her off the road and out [...]
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