Back August 8th

Off to St Petersburg and Moscow. Back on Saturday August 8th.

Back online Sunday

Thursday is a Geneva holiday. Off for a few days. Back on Sunday.

On vacation until August 19

Off to Indonesia. Back August 19.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

We've been elfed!

Taking a Break. Back on Thursday November 15

Taking a break in New York this week. Next blog update Thursday November 15.

English orchestra tunes up for virtual concert

Not related to cell phones, but fun.

Stuff reports that one of Britain's oldest symphony orchestras is to play a concert in Second Life.

"The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is building a replica of its concert hall where it will perform works by Rachmaninov, Ravel and two contemporary composers from the northern English city.

After the concert, they can chat to the orchestra's principal conductor Vasily Petrenko and performers in the virtual bar.

Michael Elliott, the orchestra's chief executive, said he hoped the September 14 concert would attract a new audience to classical music. "It's a lot of fun and certainly adds a different dimension to the more traditional visit to a concert hall," he said. "

Vacation

Summer break.

Back on Tuesday August 14.

Easter Break

Off to Naples for a holiday break, back on Wednesday April 11. Happy Easter to one and all.

Last fews day for Textually's short survey

Textually.org Network's short survey is online for just another few days.

Many thanks for taking just a few minutes of your time to answer it's questions - if you haven't already.

Please take the short Textually Network survey

The textually blogs, including Ringtonia.com, have recently been accepted into the Federated Media Publishing network, and as part of the initial process of starting up, FM asks their Authors to run a survey on their site.

The survey asks pretty standard questions of their audiences, so as to make better matches between marketers and an author's sites.

Many thanks for taking a minute to fill out this short survey , and letting us know more about you.

It'll help make the Textually blogs and FM more successful - without reader input, there's not a business in the first place. Thanks in advance, and please let me know if you have any trouble or input.

Guest Bloggers on textually

I'm taking a break over the holidays but two wonderful bloggers will be filling in for me: Gerrit Visser from Smart Mobs and Nuno Bastei from 21talks.net.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to one and all!

Back from vacation

Back from vacation! Something is off with e-mail, last message received dates back to April 6. If you have tried to contact me, please try again. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Off on vacation

I'm leaving in a few hours on vacation for a couple of weeks (Seychelles).

My good friend Régine Debatty from WMMNA will be taking over as much as she can. Updating will be irregular as Régine will be busy travelling too.

Bear with us! Back on track April 13.

Ringbits search engine

Check it out! I've added Ringbits ringtone search engine to this blog for your convenience.

Ringtone to raise money for Hurricane Katrina victims, anyone?

Anyone coming up with a ringtone to raise money for Hurrican Katrina victims? There were several such offers following the Tsunami disaster last December in East Asia, listed here:

-- Boost Mobile Ringtones for Tsunami Relief

-- Bell Canada offers ringtones for Tsunami Relief

-- «Tsunami Aid Ringtones» from Zaptophone

-- Ringtone Provider offers charity ringtones only

Picture above left from the BBC

Régine is taking over

Off to the US for 10 days. Régine from we-make-money-not-art will be taking over. So watch this space for great things!

Google ad sense on Ringtonia

December is always a reality check with yearly hosting bills coming in, reminding me that blogging and other web activities are an expensive habit. So here goes a shot at Google Ad Sense with a lingering uneasy feeling that somehow I have just gone over to the dark side...

I thought I would post updates on earnings, but apparently there is a clause with Google where subscribers agree not to disclose such information, which is why I've modified this post (for anyone who may have read it earlier - apologies).

Ringtonia.com restored

Ringtonia.com experienced a hard disk drive crash 10 days ago. All the content has been retrieved as of today, but the e-mail notification list has been lost.

If you would like to receive e-mail notifications, sign up again online, on the right hand side, under Free Notifications.

Sorry for the inconvenience. And be safe, don't forget to back-up your blogs.