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Why Artist Logs?

31 January 2005, by Andy Hume

When I sat down to write the first weblog entry at Artist Logs, I knew exactly what I wanted to write about. I wanted to call it Why Artist Logs?, and I wanted to talk about how my work as a musician had led to the kind of web design I do here, and how this kind of design was different to your average, everyday musician’s website.

Within an hour of firing up my text editor I had written about 1000 words of animated, passionate, earnest—but ultimately worthless gibberish. It was the kind of gibberish that tends to appear when you’ve got so much to say, you don’t really know where to begin. And you certainly don’t know where to end.

As I was developing the concept of Artist Logs, numerous friends and colleagues were flooded with similiarly vague and ranting emails. The most encouraging reply I ever received was. “Hmm… Yeah, sounds good”. I’m fairly certain I actually scared off a few potential clients as well. Promising start.

The point I’m making is: I have so much to say about Artist Logs—why I’m doing it, how I’m doing it, and what I hope will come from it—that not even a true wordsmith could write about it as succinctly as I needed.

So I gave up.

If you want to know what Artist Logs is all about, then you can explore the site as much as you want. You won’t find much yet though. However, over the next few days I will be putting together a series of succinct articles for this weblog that explains what I’m doing here, why I’m doing it, and how it’s going to change the world. Honest guv!

For the less web saavy amongst you, this seems like a good time to introduce the wonders of RSS. If you want to be notified the next time our site is updated, then you can subscribe to a newsfeed which will deliver you the content and a link to the new article. Discover more on our RSS Feeds page.

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