AN URGENT CALL: HELP ME COMPLETE THIS LIST!
Well, I have to tell you I honestly tried to put together this list but… we’re awful as music educators getting the word out about our blogs. There are only 133 out of 70+million blogs in the world labeled as “music education” in Technorati. Of those 133, about half of them are “fake” blogs or “splogs” and have nothing to do with music education. So, graciously, taking the the number “66” for real “music education blogs”, we find that those listed on Technorati make up a mere .00000008% of the blogs in the world. Woot!
Interestingly enough, I started this topic with the idea of only considering Music Education blogs. I couldn’t find enough relevant blogs within the results while searching for the term “Music Education” so I added “Music Technology” to the “mix” and expanded the search. I still couldn’t fill the list!
Now… I know that there are a few good music education blogs that I have talked about on this site that I can not find listed with Technorati (maybe some of you don’t know about it?). In order to find the top ranked music education blogs for this article, I used the advance search function within Technorati and searched for they keywords: “music education”, “music technology, and music, education and technology. The results of the searches and my “parsing” will be listed toward the end of this post.
Why use Technorati as a benchmark?
Technorati is an extremely important search engine and ranking system in the blog world. It can be source of much targeted traffic to our blogs. If you have a great music blog and it is not listed at Technorati, you are missing a whole lot of people and traffic to your blog.
In the defense of some really great “music technology” blogs that are found in Technorati but are blogs that I did not count toward this list -I can tell you that I didn’t count many of the “music technology” blogs because there are two types of thoughts that can be contrived when thinking about the term “music technology”… I did not include “music technology” blogs that were specifically about gear, software, audio and related hardware in this list. I included the “music technology” blogs that deal with using “music technology” in education and in the classrooms, etc.
A plea for all of the music education and technology bloggers out there:
So, I’m making this plea again, if you have a blog (not a website) about music education or music technology and feel that your blog is active enough to be included in this list (which I’m going to update in about two months), please do the following things:
1. Register your blog with Technorati. Go to the site and choose “Claim Your Blog”. When you do, be sure to include one or more of the following in you “Blog Settings” TAG fields: Music, Education, Technology, Music Education or Music Technology or all of them! If you include “music education” or “music technology” in one tag field, you will be found for sure; then I’ll be sure to find you next time around!
2. Don’t be a hoarder of your “precious” blog and it’s contents, include others in your blogroll or blog about other similar sites. If you blog about my site: https://www.mustech.net or include me in your blogroll, you can be assured that I will know about it immediately (through trackbacks, see my article about this, it’s been called one of the best about this subject on the web) and I will, no doubt, link back to you either through the blogroll here or in some other way if your blog is really about music, education or similar topics. Check my blogroll to see who is on it; it’s in the sidebar, be sure to check the blogroll of other bloggers as well!
3. Note: This article is about Technorati listed blogs, so you need to be listed on/with Technorati to be included in this list. To do this, see number 1 above! If you can’t figure it out, send me an email or reply to this post, I’ll help you.
4. I’m only considering English written blogs for this article and list. My apologies to all others.
5. How do I determine, who gets on this list? Well first of all you need to be listed with Technorati (did I mention this?). Secondly, I have to be able to find your blog by using the following search terms: “music education”, “music technology”, or the three keywords (typed in at once): music education technology. Just because you may have written one or two articles about the topic, doesn’t mean you really are a music education/technology site. You also need to be an active blogger, at least 1 post every other week at a minimum and writing mostly about useful experiences and helpful articles, not simply a diary of sorts… sure there is a little whim and interpretation of blog content involved, but I’m not going to turn this into a thesis or anything! :) And finally, at some point, I would like to include only those with a Technorati Authority Rank of 10 and above (not going to happen on our first post).
If your on this list, and you’ve never heard of mustech.net, please consider adding our site to your blogroll! We would appreciate it! As a matter of fact, feel free to add any of the great sites listed here, let’s spread the world about music education and technology and expand the Global Conversations we start with our blogs! If you don’t have a blogroll or way to include others writing similar content, please consider finding a way to do so.
So here goes the list: (The Technorati Authority given is in the parenthesis)
Drumroll please!
- Music Education Magic (68)
http://musicedmagic.com - Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog (58)
http://jasonheath.blogspot.com - Mustech.net
https://mustech.net (51) - Music Education (31)
http://musiced.about.com - Catalysts & Connections (25)
http://etobiasblog.musiced.net - Music Technology in Education (24)
http://jamesfrankel.musiced.net/ - SoundSlope (16)
http://soundslope.com - The Digital Music Educator (12)
http://digitalmusiceducator.wordpress.com - IntellectualMusician.com (12)
http://intellectualmusician.com - Podcomplex Music Technology Resources (10)
http://podcomplex.com/blog - Miikka Salavuo (9)
http://weblog.siba.fi/msalavuo - Compatible World (9)
http://jeremy1.wordpress.com - The Public Thoughts of a Music Educator in Washington, DC (3)
http://whelan-morin.blogspot.com - Percussion Education Blog (2)
http://blog.ktpercussion.com - Music Tech for ME (1)
http://www.musictechforme.com
Help me find the other 10 missing Technorati Music Education and Music Technology sites! Maybe you’re one of them! If so, send me an email via the contact tab above, add https://www.mustech.netto your blogroll, write an article about https://www.mustech.net (I like this one!), or leave a reply below!
Want to see some of the mounds I sifted through? Click on any of the Technorati Links Below:
Joseph,
I love your site! I also love to read your commentors. I don’t know of any other music education blogs that I read that you haven’t listed. I’d love to know about more. I don’t usually write, but I thought I would leave a drop of encouragment for you and to others.
Lance
Prof. Joseph,
I have a listing of music education blogs but I’m not sure if all of those blogs are registered on Technorati. These are the ones not on your list:
The Future of Music – http://gerdleonhard.typepad.com/
Jennifer Cluff’s Blog – http://www.jennifercluff.com/blog/
Making Music Matters – http://fullpitcher.wordpress.com/
Creating A Musical Culture -http://www.creatingamusicalculture.blogspot.com/
Nice to see I’m on the list:) Keep up the great work!
Joseph,
As you know, the “Music Tech for ME” blog and podcast are new to the scene. So I’m still learning to get my feet wet in this world. It is so ironic that I come across this particular blog of yours today. I just completed the editing of my next podcast show (which will be uploaded June 1st) which I discuss 10 different websites dedicated to music technology and music education. I just started with 10 sites that I was familiar with. Needless to say, I will be producing more podcast in the future dedicated to other websites of note. I will also be creating a “Resource Links” page on the blog which will contain various music technology and music education sites. And needless to say, “mustech.net” will be there!
Blessings,
Keith Mason
Very nice site. I like it. :grin:
Espie,
Thanks for the list, I will be sending them all an email to see if they will consider getting listed with Technorati. I can’t find them there.
Keith,
Thanks for your encouragement and taking the time to write. I am finding that most people “lurk”. I get about 1 comment per 100-200 visitors. A lot of people will PM me, which is fine. I’m really trying to get people to comment, even if they find something useful… I want to start a conversation…
Musicgirl,
Hello and welcome!
J. Pisano
That’s very interesting Joseph about the number of comments you receive. I have been dealing with the very same issue. I know my site is new, but, I really thought I would have more comments by this time. However, I am placing more emphasis on the podcast than the blogging at the present. I suppose I need to mix it up a little more.
Blessings!
Keith
Keith,
I’ve recently passed the 200 comment mark on this site (50 are from me.). I literally have spent contless hours trying to provoke more commentary both verbally and by web design (look around). I think I probably get more than most, except maybe Jason Heath (an incredible musican and blogger), but it is tough. There are so many variables that go into this, SEO, marketing, opportunity, audience, etc… I have had many conversations with musicians and music educators and to be honest, most of them don’t even know what a blog or podcast is… Perhaps a sad commentary for us? Thus the need for people like us and other Music Ed/Tech bloggers I’ve recently come to know.
I’ve said it here and everywhere I go… Music Educators need to “Get Out of the Box”. We’ve got a lot to say and it’s time the “world” starts hearing it!
I just keep plugging away… I appreciate your site and podcasts!
One thing for sure, if you don’t respond to those commenting on your site, they usually don’t come back (or at least comment). I make it priority to get back to them.
J. Pisano
Joseph,
Wow!! Your comment… “Music Educators need to “Get Out of the Box”. We’ve got a lot to say and it’s time the “world” starts hearing it!”… Is so incredibly true. Just yesterday, I interviewed the president of TIME, Tom Rudolph (a terrific music educator and music technology activist from the Philly area of PA. Maybe you know Tom?) for a future podcast episode; and we discussed this very point. We all know that music educators are some of the busiest individuals in education. However, we ALL still need to take the time to learn new ways (including incorporating technology) to keep improving the music education discipline as well as our own musicianship.
Keith
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James,
Sorry! I’ve corrected it!
Joe
Hey Joe,
Thank you so much for including me on your list! I am a huge fan of what you do here on your blog. Keep up the great work!
One quick correction though – you’ve listed my blog address incorrectly: instead of jamesfranke.musiced.net it should read jamesfrankel.musiced.net.
Thanks!
James
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Hi Joe,
I hope that your summer’s going well. I somehow managed to miss this post a couple months back when you put it out. I think that this list is a great idea (and it was probably hard work putting it together for you). It’s amazing how many blogs are still not registered with Technorati!
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Joe,
Thanks for the great resources you’ve got here. It looks like I have my work cut out for me, following all of these links and seeing what I come up with.
I’ll start adding some of these links to my page ASAP.
Thanks for the great work!
Stan
Thanks for putting IntellectualMusician.com on the list! Greatly appreciated!
Finally, I found the information I was searching for. I have been doing research on this subject, and for two days I keep finding web-sites that are supposed to have what I’m looking for, only to be discouraged with the lack of what I needed. I wish I would have found your web-site sooner! I had about 30% of what I was looking for and your web-site has that, and the rest of what I needed to finish my research. Thank you and keep up the good work!
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