On Thu, October 11, 2012 7:23 am, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > >> What is missing is a concerted effort to advertise and promote the >> advances that have been made. We can't rely on the magazine and >> mainstream >> news media publishers to do it for us as they are clearly not >> interested. > > Are they not? Good gods, what ever happened to genuine interest and > willingness to provide interesting reading? It's amazing SoS actually > published anything all them years back. > > Oh wait, could it be that we simply have nothing of interest to them? > Like, you know, "oh, we looked, but it seems like Linux audio isn't > getting anywhere after all, but do let us know if you have anything > worthwhile coming"? ;-) > > Or could it be that no one bothered to talk to the media in language > that it understands? > > When did anybody last contact industry magazines and suggested to > write a decent overview of e.g. MuseScore that seems to be doing so > well lately, dontcherknow, with all the recent Bach hype and all...? > > When did anybody last told editors of any of those very magazines that > he mixed and mastered a shitload of albums with A3 using latest > linuxDSP and Calf plug-ins which coincidentally work so amazingly well > and don't look like they were designed by a monkey on bad crack? > > How did it happen that http://audio.tutsplus.com/ republishes same > tired "29 music-making apps for Linux" story over an over again > instead of some new interesting coverage? Why do they still have > "Create a Tutorial, Get Paid!" section on the website, and yet I can't > recall a single tutorial on explaining the basics of creating pads > with Yoshimi or suchlike? > > Because, you know, all I hear is that evil media is so very evil. And > for some reason which I can't really explain it sounds a bagload of > excuses to me. > People gave up on bothering years ago when they realised that it was a pointless battle. >> Marketing companies spend millions of client dollars on SEO and manage >> to >> get a lot done with just a few dedicated people. We have thousands of >> users and each one of us can build a website or post links in forums and >> social media to the landing pages that we want to promote. Our sites all >> link up to each other anyway so it just needs some effort from people >> around here to spread the links and evangelise the platform. > > Oh for god's sake. Inbound links are the past of search engines marketing. > > Besides, what is it exactly that you want to promote? :) > Linux as a platform for Multimedia production. Is that a problem? >> Having some killer content won't go amiss either. > > I truly admire your priorities :) > If you have something better to offer put it on the table. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
