Head Space Daily went past the healthy
landmark of ten thousand page views today, which I guess is some kind of
achievement. I started HSD to keep myself ticking over when I am not working,
by posting some words, an image of interest and a daily tune. My first post was
on January 17th 2013, about the impending snowfall, with an image of
a child’s winter hat hanging on the school railings, accompanied by the first
tune, which was Get Up Offa That Thing by
James Brown. It was all intended as a
personal exercise to keep myself busy but Blogger gives you an option to share
your blog posts on twitter and why go to the effort of writing and posting, if
you are not going to share it. I also began posting my blog on Facebook and
before I knew it, people started looking at Head Space Daily and it isn’t just
limited to people that I know. Blogger is obviously on the World Wide Web and
it gives you viewing stats of numbers of people from a particular country that
have visited your blogspot. At the time of writing these words, there have been
6,235 views from the UK, 1,987 from the US, 501 from Russia, 342 from Germany
and the maddest of all is the 247 from Indonesia!! Of course, people may well
just stumble across this blog without much interest but when I got over 200 hits
in one night from Indonesia, I seriously thought something was amiss and I was
being cyber stalked from the Far East. It was several weeks ago, on Friday
September 27th, when I blogged after watching a documentary about
Northern Soul on BBC 4. I posted words about how Northern Soul (and music in
general) makes me feel, an image of the dancefloor at Wigan Casino and Time Will Pass You By from Tobi Legend was the Daily Tune. After a
spot of on line research, it turns out that there is a very big mod and Northern
scene in Indonesia, where they have a Mayday mod weekend in Jakarta (see link
below.) I think it’s amazing that what you can be typing and posting from a
room in South East London, can be picked up on by people on the other side of
the world, from an entirely different culture and you can be fully linked and
connected through music. So, to the mods of Indonesia, I salute you…
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