Archive for April, 2008

Just playing around with the new video on flickr. It’s quite a simple setup, easy to upload, and easy to embed into a website, blog, whatever..

Over the next couple of weeks you’ll probably notice me doing a lot more video, I’m basically going to be experimenting with a few different things for a project that I’ll reveal later.

Anyway, for now here’s ‘Lucky The Cat’ in his movie debut.

You’ve gotta have a viral video to really get your blog / website moving these days.. And hey if you cant do it yourself why not get someone like Southpark Studios to take the piss on your behalf. It’s way too funny, and way too familiar! Enjoy after the ‘jump’.

Well it seems as if Entrecard has gone a little bizarro world tonight. I just logged into my account to approve some adverts and what do I see, 512 credits to advertise on my blog! Weird!

The after a little further research it seems like the whole Make Money Online category has gone a little haywire, see the following screencap.

I was thinking about placing an advert on Problogger, John Chow or one of those high-end blogs but well at this rate I’ll be saving up my ECs for the next 30 years or so!

Wonder how long it will take till this is corrected?? Till then, buy some ads on my blog, I’m a total bargain at only 512 ECs!!

Just finished sorting out the latest edition of Reverb Street Press for download on I’m With The Band. Once again it’s a massive issue this month with interviews with Gnarls Barkley, Helmet’s Page Hamilton, Biffy Clyro, Angelas Dish, Foals, Supergrass, and whole load more….

You can download the latest issue in pdf format just by clicking on the front cover below or by clicking on this link.

(this file is around 20mb and will take about 5 minutes if you’re on a slowish adsl connection)

Those close to me and my I’m With The Band project know the frustrations I’ve had with re-instituting the gig guide when we moved cms platforms from Joomla to Wordpress.

I’ve tried about 5 different calendars, none of which would embed in a page without some form of pain be it in the form of database corruption, javascript conflicts, and a myriad of other dramas. I was all set to give up when I stumbled upon Google Calendar.

My .mac subscription recently expired and I was about to renew it as I find it very useful for syncing iCal across my 4 macs but I wasn’t really keen on coughing up the cash to re-subscribe so I started looking for other services that could just provide a calendar syncing service. Enter Google Calendar!

Basically Google Calendar is your typical online calendar that can be shared amongst other users and what not, with one difference….it gives you the ability to make a calendar public and then provides you with the code to embed that into ANY webpage.

And Bingo was his name-o!

After spending an hour this morning putting all the dates in the calendar for April I grabbed the code and created a new page on I’m With The Band, paste the code into the html editor and voila! It really couldn’t have been any easier.

Also, as part of the calendar setup you can share the administration of it with other people so I’ve setup the guys at Reverb Street Press with access so that they too can help update and maintain the calendar. And because I’ve setup the calendar as a public calendar it also appears in Google’s search for public calendars, so people who are searching for a Newcastle or Central Coast gig guide our calendar becomes available….hrmm, I better make sure I put a link back to the website in it though..

So if you’re looking for a calendar solution in Wordpress then give Google Calendar a go because it works and is dead simple to setup!