Open invitation to UncleDig.com

[Doug Cox <dougcox@pdq.net>]

Hello loopers!

Just a quick note to let you know about a site that I've started:  
http://www.uncledig.com

The site is an online community aimed at musicians who want to present 
their recorded work to the general public.  It's only about 10 days old 
but we already have ~75 members, and a growing archive of songs and 
effects/technique demo clips from those members.  I'm hoping that the 
community can have a strong presence from looping artists, too.  Thus 
this slightly spammy note :)

I haven't done much yet to publicize the site, yet traffic is at about 
300 unique visitors per day (listening to ~2 songs/visitor).  I have 
plans to do a lot more advertising and link exchanges, with the intent 
of getting some broad exposure for the members/contributors.  Obviously, 
right now the site may not get you any more traffic than your own site 
does - but I'm hoping that will change in the near future.

Come by and give it a look.  Registration and participation are free - 
there are no catches.  Your email address is privacy-safe, and you can 
control the copyright on the music you post there, either through 
Creative Commons, or your own existing copyrights.  I just thought it 
might be a nice change of pace to create a place where people can share, 
collaborate, discuss and learn.

This is also the place from which I'll begin to podcast a series of 
ongoing interviews with interesting people involved in various scenes - 
live looping, effects building, etc.  Finally, this is where you'll be 
able to find the results of the 2005 Looper's Survey, after I compile 
them this week.

Hope to see you there!  Feel free to email me offlist if you have any 
questions.

Dig