• I woke up this morning to find lots of messages sent to my inbox from my blog, which is hosted on WordPress.com. One message said, “congratulations on being chosen for the WordPress home page!” It’s true, I had to take a screen grab for posterity. It may never happen again.
    The highlighted page is, “How to draw a Kangaroo.” There has been a whopping hike in my blog stats and a significant hike in my YouTube videos being watched, which is very gratifying for a stats junkie like me!

    I’ve been blogging pretty well everyday since December, in an effort to prove to my publishers that it is a waste of time. Maybe I’m wrong? My stats graph is slowly, inexorably rising. The only drag with WordPress is that you can’t put advertising on it, but then I made a choice about that at the beginning. I get a bit fed up with ads flashing all over blogs. The odd link to related material is fine, but stuff fed from a central server? you don’t know who is using you to sell their products.

    Thanks for the recognition WordPress.

  • It seems it’s not possible to download videos from Google anymore – without a bit of specialised software, anyway. I’d relied on this being available for teachers to be able to show my videos in school from a home-made cd.

    I’d tried uploading to teachertube before, but I’d found it hard work. Something has changed and their uploading process seems to be working a lot better so I’m duplicating Drawing School on Teachertube. It will take a little while to get it all uploaded, but at least I’ve started.

    As I understand it, TeacherTube is generally allowed through school firewalls so you can show my “how to” videos on whiteboards. Please let me know if this works.

  • I’m starting to get all excited about the Adobe global launch of Creative suite 5 tomorrow. I’ll report back if there’s anything interesting. I’m sure there will be. Am I a little sad?