Subscribing explained in plain English

I stumbled upon the following video while visiting Blogging Basics 101. It clearly and cleverly explains the reasons why one should subscribe to blogs, what that term actually means, and how to go about doing it. It also mentions Google Reader, my favorite RSS...

Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace

I stumbled upon a fascinating essay recently through Dana Boyd’s blog about how class differences manifest themselves in whether a teen chooses to use Facebook or MySpace. In it, she hypothesizes that the ‘preps’ go for Facebook while the...

More new bass blog features

Summer has brought about much more free time for me, and I have been using it to get elbow-deep in code on my blog and work on a lot of background and interface stuff. You’ll probably notice some subtle changes, but I’ve also been working on some technical...

We’ve moved! Welcome to www.doublebassblog.org

I finally took the plunge (for the second time) and moved the bass blog to its own domain today. Long-time readers may remember me attempting this six months ago, moving the blog from jasonheath.blogspot.com to doublebassblog.com, with disastrous results (although at...

New Bass Blog features – auditions and more

I have been doing a few tweaks here and there to the user interface for this blog. Nothing major, but hopefully it will help to clarify things and make some features more obvious. In addition to the Articles and Forums links below the Contrabass Conversations banner,...