When we first began this blogging adventure, it felt like we were shouting into a brick wall cause we were writing all this stuff, but then when we’d go looking around for what people were saying, we would never see ourselves in search results ever and so it was obvious that people would never read what we were saying.

I use a lot of yahoo pipes to track VAF Octavio search results from any system that will output an rss feed so that I can keep track of what the internet is saying efficiently. About a week ago I started to notice that these pipes were increasingly filling up with our own posts (which was annoying in a way because I want to hear what other people are saying). Well actually this is quite a jubilant moment for us because it means that if people search for Octavio information using Google Blog Search or Technorati then they are highly likely to find us and see what we’re doing. Hopefully they will find out about the Octavio’s rare features and VAF’s strong interest and history in high quality sound.

Here are some pages that demonstrate our new-found search engine cred.

• Google Blog Search for “VAF Octavio”
• Technorati Search for “VAF Octavio”

As you can see blogging about the Octavio looks very healthy according to the technorati graph, largely because we tend to post about it every second day. Great thanks to Mike Seyfang (Jamie’s dad) for blogging about us and linking to us because his amassed internet cred has allowed him to rise to the top of search results however his links should direct people to us hopefully. I believe that the results of this “search test” suggest that the making of the promotional videos was worthwhile because they seem to appear quite high in the results for some reason. Also in technorati they appear as large colourful thumbnails which I imagine would be very enticing to click on.

Also if you continue to the second technorati page where our actual posts start appearing you will notice that my blog has an authority of 4 which trumps Jamie’s blog, this blog and even Mike’s livespaces blog. I have no idea how that came to be because Mike’s blog is regular, interesting and gets heaps of cool subscribers, but who cares - I still think I’ll milk my bragging rights.

Next project is to increase our Google juice because our first contribution is only on the third page.

Hopefully my next post will be less statistical and more radical, but I guess it’s good to check on progress occasionall

Jacob for VAF

Agenda:

1. How to subscribe to a feed with Google Reader
2. Subscribe to the  Radiohead’s Dead Air Space feed url - (feed url is:http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/deadairspace.rss)
3. Subscribe to US
   1. http://feeds.feedburner.com/wholesalemeatmediablog
   2. http://feeds.feedburner.com/yakface
   3. http://feeds.feedburner.com/salamano
4. Great Octavio’s in History: Octavio Paz
5. Musical Item: “Us” by the Well Meaning Shells

Sorry it goes for 12 minutes - please skip through

Podcast 3 mp3 file

Jacob and Jamie for VAF

Here is the first Wholesale Meat Media podcast. We did it a couple of weeks ago and it basically introduces us and doesn’t do much else. Don’t be too alarmed by the striking trumpet at the start - Jamie is on his way to becoming a master of jazz after getting a trumpet for Christmas.

Here’s the podcast

Please subscribe to our podcast as we will be releasing more episodes in the near future which will hopefully include many musical treats. If you are new to podcasts then this entails opening iTunes, and selecting “Subscribe to podcast…” under the “Advanced” menu and entering http://feeds.feedburner.com/wholesalemeatmediablog/ into the box. The purpose of all this is that iTunes will now automatically fetch our latest podcasts as we release them. It will also do us a real favour in getting some listeners to participate in our media company experiment.

Feel free to complain about our mumbling voices (mainly Jacob) and sarcastic comments (mainly Jamie). We think we are slowly improving and we hope to include some rad new tunes in each episode to keep it interesting.

Jacob and Jamie on behalf of VAF 

There has been some speculation about where/if the VAF Octavio is available in Australia, so we tried calling a few major stores to check if they are in stock for Christmas. The only place we have found so far that definitely stocks the Octavio and will be likely to have them for Christmas is Next Byte. It’s a bit of a shame that it’s hard to find South Australian product in South Australia, however after talking to Mr Vafiadis today it looks the Octavio will soon be found in a number of other retailers. But for now it looks like Next Byte is the go.

Jamie and Jacob on behalf of VAF.

Greetings all. Jamie (Yakface) and Jacob (Salamano) welcome you to our new blog. This blog is the home of an experiment where we hope to earn a bit of pocket money in the holidays by doing web 2.0 stuff that Jamie’s dad is always talking about on behalf of any company that is willing to fund our communal lunches, CD purchases and the occasional novelty birthday gift. So far we’re beginning to plot with Mr Vaf who runs a local speaker company called VAF Research. I watched him talk to Jamie’s dad once and it sounded rather business-like but exciting nevertheless. Looks like we get to meet him again soon which could get our project underway (we don’t really know anything but we hope to work it out as we go).

Hope to see you again soon.

Jacob