Tarting Up

The Funk Boys have been tarting the place up to make it look a lot more Kwithmuthy and in keeping with the dark season of Fatwallet.

What do you think? Personally I prefer it to the old “fridge magnet” livery. It’s a lot more funky. I get the impression they may have been studying key word usage…

Meanwhile, I’ve been looking at Amazon and I’m going to test it out.

Funky Music Imports

I think the boxes look ugly – although they look better than Google Adwords which destroy countless websites. Mind you that’s as much to do with careless coding and home-made design. In ten years the internet has become an enormous car boot sale…

On a more serious note, I have applied to PPL for my ISRC codes, so that I can properly license and keep track of digital downloads, as I do fully intend to pick up some of the slack in the Deekster household by properly organising some online commerce.

144 PDF downloads of Ozzie Rozzie went to computer hard drives after I wrote that short story in October. I wonder whether any of those people who downloaded the PDF for free would have paid for the story? Maybe some, but I would certainly also have lost more than a few readers.

In any case, Ozzie Rozie wasn’t written to make money. It was totally rewarding just to write fifteen thousand words of fiction and I recommend you do the same. While I did so, I inhabited the world I had created, which seemed to coexist and live alongside me and within me. I also proved something to myself by having the idea last year and following it through, which was that I could extend the form of the blog, exploring various different states, routes and ideas by changing tack once a month, and that people would appreciate it, and so they have done. But after I looked at the logs it occurred to me that I should really sell some of my work via the net, either by digital download, or even creating actual physical products that people can pick up, fondle and enjoy. Like books, CDs, that kind of thing. Now there’s a bloody obvious thought.

That’s been one of the fun things this year, picking themes that relate to key aspects of my real life activity. I have found it generally helpful, and once, life saving.

I may just release a Kwithmuth single.