My Musical Wanderings & DJ Loggy's Playlist

I love music and I play a little guitar. Ever since I was a kid, I've played in a variety of garage bands ranging from my first "real gig" as bassist / driver for my brother Robert Omlit's band to some exciting live performances in My Size with Foosh. Other important adventures along my musical journey have included Half Joe, Menagerie, Lomo Gato and Buster Grubbs.

My good friend Pete West was the leader and producer for Buster Grubbs. I wrote a lot of the lyrics and a few songs. While Pete is a professional musician and I'm just a hobbyist, I think we'd both agree that we created something unique and special when we collaborated. I do indeed miss those days jamming with Pete and all my other former bandmates. You can check out a few of the songs these bands created on my new online playlist at the social music sharing site called Blip. I hope you enjoy the tunes:

http://blip.fm/profile/DJLoggy/playlist

A love of music starts with your family and my family shared loads of music with me. My mom used to take the Logan kids to see American Bandstand at Malibu Beach. That's where I had the chance to give Marie Osmond a Paper Rose. 

Today my musical journey involves showing my 13 year old son Ayrton a few chords on guitar every now and then. I also enjoy observing my son's interaction with music. He loves a lot of classic tunes. His favorites include Louie Louie, Surfing Bird, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and just about everything by Creedence. Pretty good taste IMO.

Social Rant: I Need Twitter Channels! What’s taking so long?

My Twitter obsession started with my profession: social media. Now I’m officially connected with over 600 of the world’s most innovative social media mavericks. That’s all fine and dandy, but there’s a lot more to life than work. I want to discuss travel, entertainment, food, wine, exercise, parenting, marriage, politics and more.

The burgeoning social web brings with it expectations. Requirements even. I don’t want all of my interests and passions blended into one giant social mix that’s shared with every Tom, Dick, Harry & Sally that surfs the social web. The knowledge and technology exists today to solve this problem and damn it, I’m growing impatient. Sure a lot of people are talking about Twitter channels, but why is it taking so long?
+ People discussing Twitter channels on Twitter http://budurl.com/xpej
+ Google search on “Twitter channels” http://budurl.com/4tch

I need to be able to quickly switch between work, sports, food, news, traffic and family channels on Twitter. I’ll take main navigation tabs for a thousand Alex. Enough with birds, ratings, tracking followers, leavers and the like… give me something truly useful. Give me Twitter channels.

Social Light: Profile Photos

Profile photos are necessary all over the social web. Every time you create a profile on a web site, you will likely have an opportunity to upload a photo. Profile photos are usually displayed as small squares less than in inch in size and formatted as a .jpeg or .gif file. The most common profile images are close ups of one’s face. I keep a folder entitled “Profile Pictures” in the “My Pictures” folder on each computer. This gives me a variety of good images to choose from quickly. If you need help preparing your profile images, I suggest you either ask a friend who’s savvy with digital photos or Google “how to crop a photo online.” The results will include a variety of free online photo editing tools.