Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Clay 2.0... part 1

Hello Clayfans,

Many of us came to the Internet and technology through Clay - and we remain tech-involved because of Clay and the friendships we have formed online. Filming Clay anywhere and creating videos to be put onto YouTube. Recording his unearthly beautiful voice and his lovely, sweet face in a variety of places and moments, and uploading the mp3s and photos to the Internet to be shared with others. Building our first Websites and blogs (I started this blog after I first saw Clay live in concert - Jukebox Tour in Toronto, August 25th, 2005, what a night!).

Six years after Our Man burst onto the big scene and into our lives, Clay and his fans have a strong Web presence and Internet-related technologies are an integral part of our lives.

What about the newer online tools, the so-called "Web 2.0" tools (although even Web 2.0 is getting to be a passé term), meaning collaborative, user-created content? Twitter, anyone? Twitter is a free micro-blogging/messaging service.

Do Claymates tweet (= participate in Twitter)? Well, yes as a matter of fact, some of us do. Me, I lurk, so far - I'm at https://twitter.com/ClayKat - trying to figure out the hype around Twitter. I've found 4 other fans so far - or they have found me, I'm not sure! Come and join us - and tell me why Claymates need to be on Twitter.

More to come on other Web 2.0 tools and Clay in another post!

-- ClayKat

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Sunday, March 01, 2009

A new look for ClayKat blog

Hello Clay fans,

For ages now, I have been wanting to fold this blog into Blogger's new layout format, and clean up all the ragtag widgets that have been hanging out in the right column, some completely outdated.

I finally did it today, and I think the look is cleaner and sleeker now.

I'm also thinking of opening up the blog purpose. Broadening its horizons to encompass life in general, as well as my thoughts, experiences and feelings about Clay Aiken.

Two reasons for this:
  1. I want to write more in general; and
  2. Clay has been quite quiet for over a year now - except for Spamalot gigs 1 & 2 (which I was unable to attend) - so I haven't been very inspired to write much about him. Not that I admire him any less - don't get me wrong! I'm still - and plan to always be - a true Clay fan.
So we'll see where I go with this... I'll keep you posted (sorry for the pun!).

-- ClayKat

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