RE: An Experiment in Passivity -- Day 14 -- Michael Jackson & His Influences
Today I saw your new sketches on Twitter before I saw them on Steemit! That rarely happens. I wish I could draw, but I am thankful that digital art allows those of us who lack talent to express ourselves too -- but I would much prefer being able to draw ;-)
I agree about Michael, what an extraordinary performer. Over the years things took such a tragic turn... so sad.
About Louie, yes those interviews with session players are some of my very favorites -- their day job is often amazing. It's one thing to be in a popular band touring and playing your regular set list all the time, but mixing it up everyday with some of the greatest singers and musicians on the planet -- that's pretty amazing. I'll have more to share about Louie if my passivity experiment survives.
Have a great Sunday!!!
Yes, I noticed your like and retweet on twitter. Thanks a lot, much apprecitated :-) I know, I should put some more efforts into marketing my posts outside of steemit, but the day has only 24h...
It sometimes makes me sad to see, that some posts here get $20 for posting not more than a youtube video while your posts have so much more value and are often overseen. Maybe you should change one of the tags to #danceweekend ?
On the other hand, I guess that your experiment in passivity somehow lacks the possibilty to build a strong network (which is essential here for reasonable rewards). All I can say is, that I'm still hoping you will stay for the long run.
Keep it up!
I'm afraid my retweets don't mean much. I'm almost completely passive on Twitter. Generally I only tweet after I publish something, so the artists can catch it and retweet it, or post it on their Facebook page. So it is somewhat useful to me, but only in connection with artists.
I still think (for me) the only meaningful way to have some success on steemit would be if artists begin to come to steemit and bring their fans. My last interview from 12 days ago already has 17k views. Imagine if the artist had been here on steemit and had liked and reteemed my article (and I had published it on steemit.) That for me seems like the model that would work.
I was hoping to keep the experiment going for 365 days, now I wonder if I'll make it to 30 days. But I am still having fun, so fingers crossed. Your support has been a true moral booster for me, thanks so much for your support and feedback on my posts, it means a lot.
Wow as I was writing you were extending a helping hand. Just saw the boost, man that's so nice of you!!!!
I don't think that your retweets doesn't mean very much. Remember last time when Gary Husband liked my pencil drawings ;-)
Congrats on those 17k views of your interview! That's a really great achievement. I absolutely agree, that having some artists at steemit bringing over their fanbase would really boost your success (and the success of steemit at the same time).
I just think, that steemit is still in a very early stage and I remember, when 1 Steem was worth just about 15 cents. It wasn't always easy to keep my faith in it, but on the other hand I've never met you without steemit. That alone makes it worth for me :-)
I'm not very used to using boosters yet, because I use them rarely but anything I could do, to let you stick here a few more days is well worth the try.
I also thought about translating some of your music-posts (or interviews) into German for you. I've already translated the Comic of @katharsisdrill before, so I have some experience with this. Maybe that will bring up the german whales again...
Ah yes, you're right, that was great about Gary. What an amazing musician, he's a world class drummer and a world class keyboard player. And he liked you art, that was pretty cool.
The legendary guitarist Allan Holdsworth (died this year) used to tour with Gary playing drums, otherwise Gary was touring with John McLaughlin playing keyboards-- amazing, can you imagine that!
I had considered doing German versions of the Beatles Made in Germany posts -- I mean, if the Beatles sang in German I should have done those posts in German too ;-)
The der, die, das makes it so tedious -- wish they had an auto-correct for that! As you know, if you make a mistake with the gender, then the mistakes snowball with the case, adjective agreement etc. So I have to constantly check the gender when I write. When I speak I usually just slur the articles ;-)
Anyway, I still think Steemit is a great user friendly blog, with tremendous potential. I suppose as long as the viewership is as low as it is, I need to find a sweet-spot for my posts -- not too long and labor intensive. This Michael Jackson post is a good example of what seems to work. It would have been fairly easy to do a German version, I should indeed consider that with posts like this one.
About boosting, @Pawos last post really made me see that it makes a lot of sense. Not boosting is a missed opportunity.
It's like the butterfly-wing theory: You never know how large the impact of what you're doing actually will be. Even if there are only a few readers of an article/tweet, it might be exactly the one, you've been waiting for ;-)
So, if you're able to make a german version of that Beatles series in a reasonable time, you should definitely go for it! Personally I think the gender mistakes would not harm your message in general. It even may give your posts a personal touch (when you mention you're not a native speaker).
Thanks for the tip regarding boosters. As I consider myself being an dolphin, I just didn't want to drain the reward pool too much (so that minnows can also get a piece of the pie). As everybody else is using boosters these days and as I want to support some overlooked posts, I will have to look deeper into it, though.
Looking forward to your German posts and have a great day!
Well, after two weeks of English, today I posted in German. I wonder how it will go...