What’s hot in Germany?
| March 4th, 2007So, a couple of weeks into my blog and I’m starting to realise that it’s pretty tough posting everyday. Well posting something worth reading that is . . . so I’ve decided to try not to worry if I don’t post something everyday. It’s not the end of the world.
Anyway, last week I met up with all the other agencies across Europe that also work with Getty Images. During an evening checking out the latest Renoir exhibition at the National Gallery and having dinner, I asked Martin (a really interesting guy from here) what was hot over in Germany.
We had a chat about all the usual stuff - Second Life, Twitter, YouTube, Berlin techno etc. Then he dropped me a quick mail on Friday with some really interesting links to some good stuff going down in Germany which I thought I would share (including comments by Martin).
Thanks Martin. I’ll return the favour some day soon.
Music:
Deichkind - a band from Hamburg which plays a mixture out of hip hop and electro with a very strange but cool live performance… just watch the videos, eg. the one from the Melt festival 2006
Melt Festival - the best festival in Germany right now…
Voom Voom from Vienna / Berlin (ex Kruder & Dorfmeister and Fauna Flash) You will find them on the label site K7 under artists & catalogue / artist or directly here
International Pony - also from Hamburg. Not really new but still cool
Headbangers
Some currently successful German web communities:
lokalisten.de - community with a strong local focus
nachtagenten.de - club and nightlife portal for some cities in Germany
studivz.de - student network
openbc.de - business network like Linked In
myvideo.de
clipfish.de
There are a few tricks with posting every day:
- Publish your bookmarks, you are bound to find or be sent links that are worthwhile, even if you don’t have something to say yourself
- Keep a notepad or an electronic equivalent. I use Yojimbo by Bare Bones Software, this allows you to sketch ideas out that are not time critical
- Take a holiday, but tell your readership how long you won’t be blogging for
- Post off the topic of your blog, there is usually something that can catch your eye that may not be on-topic of your blog
- Something that has worked well with clients, has been for them to get a guest author in on their blog
- Blog for yourself rather than your readership - your passion for the subject will come out and make it more interesting than you think it would be to an external audience
- A blog post doesn’t have to be long - check out twitter (my profile is http://twitter.com/renaissancechambara
[…] post was inspired by a post on Jonathan Hopkins’ blog and the comment that I left for him. His blog got off to a ripping […]
Cheers as ever Ged. I’ve decided just to go with it. Thanks for pointing out my blog “got off to a ripping start, but now he is struggling to maintain momentum” (!)
I’ve struck out struggling for you
I don’t think it’s necessary to post every day. I’d rather read someone who posts less frequently but with more quality content. Tom Murphy for example.
I can’t stand it when people feel the need to write about crap just to make a blog post to keep readership. I’d rather lose them.
Unlike Ged, I dislike link posts too. Never read them. But I do agree with him when he says write for yourself and not your readers. Others will oppose this but it’s my blog, I pay the bandwidth so I’ll write what I want.
Just realised this comment sounds like a rant. It’s really not.
Thanks for your feedback Stephen. I am definitely swaying towards not posting everyday, not doing a collection of links (well, only in the context of something special like above!) and only doing posts on something that if I didn’t post about, I’d have to tell someone or send an email to people I know and like. That’s the approximate guide I’m putting in place for myself - though it’s early days for this blog so I guess we wait and see how it pans out.
Oh and don’t worry - not taken as a rant (!) And even if it was, ranting is allowed.