It's like someone's story I was looking at yesterday, which arose out of the challenge of having to incorporate three different prompts (one I remember being to work in the phrase "a jar of pickled cactus").
I'm new here but getting to like the place more and more now I'm making a few contacts. Just feeling my way and will soon be posting on a variety of topics but mainly music (all sorts). Obviously Can are on my list, which is pretty long. I've thought of doing series where I post linked articles on five successive days. So the overall theme might be Krautrock (not that I like that term very much, but it seems to be established), and there would be posts / days on Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Can, Julian Cope's 'Krautrocksampler', some of the great bands like Neu, Cluster, la Dusseldorf etc., etc. OK, so maybe a week wouldn't be enough - I'd need at least two!
Thanks for the upvote. :o) See you around.
I'm also happy to connect and I'm definitely lookig forward to reading your 'Krautrock' series.
While I'm at Steemit for almost two years, I've made a lot of interesting connections and had such in deep conversations, I din't experience somewhere else before. I even made some friends, like @katharsisdrill, who is an artist from Denmark (who also has a pretty good music taste) and @roused (who is a music journalist writing for https://www.allaboutjazz.com). Maybe you would also be interested in checking out the "Obscure Revealing's" series by @sature (about discovering unknown Psychedelic Rock).
However, I'm glad that our ways crossed and I'm sure we will keep in contact. Cheers!
Yes, great to connect. I also found FOMO on your Twitter timeline, another one in similar vein to ATH which I also like. I will save some of them into a folder tomorrow.
To be honest I'd been slightly disappointed by the musical content I've encountered on Steemit so far, so it's great to know there are some music hounds on here. Finding them is the problem, so I'm grateful for those recommendations - I've followed all three - and would be interested in any others. That jazz website looks really good. Must admit I've never seen it before, despite the fact I've been researching and writing a book on jazz for the last three years! Actually, it's not quite true. The book is about the prehistory of jazz, which is a bit different. It's 80% finished but I've had to press 'pause' because the money has run out and now I'm relying on crypto to save my skin. Bring on the bull market, if one is ever going to come.
As I say, I feeling my way here for a little while before posting. When I start it will probably partly be with things recycled from my website - seems crazy to put too much original work into things that are not likely to be seen by many.
So 'Krautrock' will have to wait a little while. Since I intend to post quite frequently I won't be doing very in depth articles or sculpting the language as meticulously as that on my website or the Stockhausen and jazz books. For the most part it will be more about pointing people towards things, using a fairly broad brush, and providing links for further exploration. I get the impression people are not looking here for long, complex articles.
As well as the some real Steemit enthusiasts there seem to be quite a few users - how shall I put it? - taking advantage of the platform's decentralized nature (the lack of enforceable rules), with people like Haejin Lee running whatever money-printing schemes they are running. Where do you stand on the use of upvote bots? They don't seem to be thought to be against the spirit, certainly if used for gaining visibility, and I was thinking of resorting to them myself for that purpose. Do you have any tips about where to get balanced views on this type of thing? I've read quite a bit but the people who are most passionate on the subject all seem to have an agenda one way or the other. Any other tips you have would be gratefully received. One thing I haven't got to the bottom of is how much STEEM I would need to buy and power up to start earning rewards. Obviously any is better than than, but would (say) $500 US of STEEM start to really help me?
Speak to you again soon, I hope. Hope I haven't gone on too much - this what happens if you give people more than 140 characters. :o)
Fin
No worries, I'm glad if I can answer a few questions. Writing meaningful comments is a very good way to earn some rewards and more importantly to get noticed by some influental people.
Steemit is definitely not a get-rich-quick scheme, it needs some efforts and endurance to finally earn some decent rewards. But if you constantly contibute to the community, you will definitely earn some rewards. As it's the essence of every social network, acting nicely and communicating with people will bring you some upvotes and (more importantly) will start growing your network.
For some people it's a factor to see, that you're not instantly cashing out all your earnings and rather invest them in Steempower, while the amount of Steempower at first gives you more voting-weight to vote for others. I regularly use a tool called Steemworld, where you're able (besides a lot of more interesting things) to simulate the worth of your vote (Simulate SP).
Or you could lend some Steempower and try out how it feels to have some. For example you can lend about 150 SP for 1 Steem/week at Minnowbooster.
Another thing is, that I'm totally bullish about cryptos in general and certainly the value of Steem will rise, when the value of Bitcoin rises. There are quite a few people seeing the future Steemprice between $10-20 and we already saw $8 in January (but this is not an investment advise).
Regarding voting bots, there is a good website called Steem Bot Tracker, where you can see the ROI and other useful infos. It's true, that quite a few peope are strictly against the use of votebots and personally I only use them, when I really want to push the visibilty of a post (like the Damo Suzuki post) or if I want to give a friend of mine an extra vote, when I see, that his post does not get the rewards, I think, it should get.
On the other hand, voting bots are an appropiate way to kickstart your Steemit-career, when you're a new user. So, I'm not strictly against them, only against the excessive use (when people already have earned a lot).
So, just a few words about the content, you're going to post. In my observation, posts that have a personal touch are definitely working a lot better, than just "wiki-style" articles with a few links. (Although Steemit posts automatically have a great google ranking and really can help improving the SEO-score of a linked website). When you start, you should tell a bit about yourself and your projects, why you're here, what you're going to write about and so on.
You should definitley care about using the right tags like #introduceyourself for the first post and generally tags, that are seen by a lot of people. The Steemit homepage usually shows you the most used tags on the left site. And let me know, when you're up to posting. I can definitely help you getting some more visibilty by resteeming and telling a few people about you.
Nuff said for now. Good luck and good night!
Thanks for responding in such detail – this is as helpful as I could have wished. You confirm a lot of the conclusions I have been reach independently: that visibility and its rewards won’t come quickly but only with persistence; that engaging (organically) with others will help the process – Steemians cannot live by posts alone as I think the Bible says; that tagging is worth paying attention to; and that bots are not necessarily bad if used for benign purposes like getting visibility for yourself or others.
I’ve come across Minnowbooster but don’t really know what it entails, while Steemworld and Steem Bot Tracker are new to me and will also have to be checked. Thanks for these leads. What you say about keeping it personal is interesting. In a way it goes against my instincts and the objectivity of a lot of the factual writers I admire, but I’ll try to find a way, being me without making it about me. I suppose one concern I have is the demand for what I do. If most of my posts are about classical music, how many are going to read them?
I’ll be doing my #introduceyourself soon, though I won’t post it until I’ve built up a little stockpile which I’ll release maybe one a day while writing others. I’ll certainly be letting you know when I go live and appreciate your fantastic offer of spreading the word on my behalf.
So what’s your guess about this darned crypto market? Every time it looks as though a real run is possible we get slapped down. Are we correcting now and will soon be making a higher high, or are we destined to go back to $6K. Who the hell knows? What I do know is I could do with a run, and one or two or my moonshots to go crazy – that would give me some breathing space.
Have a great night - what's left of it. I think you're living in Bonn (Beethoven Town as think of it), yes?
Hello again!
Glad, it is :-)
Just ask yourself, if you would have engaged with me in that way, if I wouldn't have told you (in my Damo post), that I have a personal interest in supporting the film-project. On the other hand, I just want you to follow your instincts, so maybe just keep it in the back of your mind.
There is an audience for every topic. What sense would it make, when you would post about stuff, that you think your readers like to read, but you feel no passion for? This is the most important thing, I've learned here. Do what you love and then the rewards will follow automatically. (Isn't that also from the Bible?)
I'm looking forward to reading it. When I started here, I often tried to make some things too perfect and then my expectations were often not satisfied. That's why I started a little series called the #morgenseiten, where people should write posts without thinking too much. But "every reveler is different", like we say here in the Rhine area.
I don't know, but I can remember how it took a few years until Bitcoin was worth $800 (that was the time, when I bought my first) and from there kept falling and falling down to $200 (I certainly wished, I would have bought a lot more at that price). The rest is history and history is repeating. So, I can totally understand, that a new height would give you "some breathing space" (me too). But when I've learned anything during that time, it is: "Keep hodling!" - The new heights will come, that's for sure!
Have a great night, too! You're right, I'm living in Beethoven's birth town (and it's a great place to be ;-)
Hi again
All gratefully received and taken on board. Be myself and let the chips fall where they may, that’s the lesson I take from it. “Jede Jeck ist anders” – hadn’t heard that one before, but of course it’s true (“different strokes for different folks” the Americans say). “Do what you love and then the rewards will follow automatically” – that’s from the Apocrypha (Apokryphen), I believe. :o) My memory of Bonn, where I would sometimes take the Strassenbahn on my day off from the hotel I was working in, was that it was a quieter city than I’d expected This was 35 years ago though, unbelievable as it seems to me.
I had a look at #morgenseiten and found @roused’s post about Elvis (and Bowie, and the Beatles) in Germany, then another about Johnny Otis – so this was something else I have to thank you for. You’d already mentioned him, which I realised only after reading these posts.
I hadn’t even heard of Bitcoin last August. This is what living in a bubble of research and writing will do for you. I’m one of the naivlings who got in at the top, which is why I’m struggling now. Not only that but I bought the dip that turned out not to be the dip, believing those who said BTC would never be as low as $12 again.
On the subject of the book, if you have any interest in seeing a draft shoot me an address and I’ll email. Purely for the interest of seeing what it is, I mean, not for reading, let alone providing feedback. Just to open the door, glimpse at the madness within, slam it shut again and run away.
Fin
Sorry for the delay. I'm quite busy these days, cause there is a new "General Data Protection Regulation" in the EU coming up and I have to update the privacy policies of several websites, before I go to a city trip next week.
Bonn is still relatively quiet, but I'm totally in love with the city. Maybe, if I were younger, I'd prefer to live in Cologne for the parties and concerts, but being almost 50 years old has made me a lot more settled. I really enjoy the nature around the Rhine and the Siebengebirge and if I need some action, I can still be in Cologne in half an hour.
I'm glad you checked out the #morgenseiten and found @roused - he's a really amazing guy. He had some similar thoughts about posting his interviews at Steemit, because the audience for Jazz music at Steemit seems to be a bit too small, maybe he can tell you a bit about his experiences.
Buying at the top can really be frustrating, but not as frustrating as selling at the bottom. I made this mistake several times and wished I could go back in time and change it. But if I wouldn't have made those mistakes, I wouldn't have stumpled upon Steemit, which is something I was always searching for. So maybe that's what another Cologne saying is about: "Et kütt wie et kütt." (It comes as it comes.)
I'd really like to open Pandora's box and have a "glimpse of the madness within" your book ;-) My email is the same as my username here @gmail.com
Until then: Have a great evening!