A Head Full of Wishes

It’s all over. The 2008 survey results are now up for your perusal. The lucky winner of the draw has been notified by email, if you haven’t heard anything then sadly you missed out…better luck next year.
A quick summary for those of you who just want headlines…

Galaxie 500 album: On Fire
Galaxie 500 track: Tugboat
Luna album: [...]

I’m wrapping up this year’s A Head Full of Wishes survey on Wednesday so if you haven’t voted already you’ve not got much time. You don’t have to answer all (or any) of the personal questions, you don’t have to vote in every category, you don’t have to leave an email address unless you want [...]

The latest in the long line of trying to turn A Head Full of Wishes into something a bit more than a news and information website is now being trialled. The site now has some “social” functionality provided by Google’s Friend Connect which means you can sign in to the site (using your Google account [...]

I’ve just launched the 14th A Head Full of Wishes survey, so it’s time to start figuring out your favourite albums and tracks and then head on over to the survey form and make your selections. You can choose one album and five tracks for each artist (Galaxie 500, Luna, Damon & Naomi and Dean [...]

As I’ve just set up a Facebook group for AHFoW I decided it was about time for another round-up of just where you might bump into us on the web…

A Head Full of Wishes – news, articles, reviews and a comprehensive database of releases, tracks, shows and setlists.
AHFoW – Facebook group (new)
AHFoW – Flickr [...]

The short version…
I’ve decided that the current Oblivious forum isn’t working and am trying a different angle. So as of about now Oblivious the forum no longer exists – but Oblivious the “social network” is born – please come and sign up.
My apologies to you all for the change, particularly to the one new member [...]

You can now get the latest updates by following A Head Full of Wishes on Twitter
(Near-)Instant gratification can also be achieved via RSS and Email…

Oblivious – A new online forum
It’s been a few years since I last tried to get an online forum going for A Head Full of Wishes and I thought it was time to try again. The Galaxie 500 Mailing List has been a bit quiet of late, maybe that’s because things are just quiet or [...]

Wake me up when he’s finished…picture from fuzzywuzzy.com
This is a really long and tedious post about managing links and tagging and it exists only as a reference and because I think really ought to document this sort of thing so that my grandchildren will be able to see just how truly, truly sad their granddad [...]

metaphotographyphoto by Franck
As metadata is data about data, and metaphotography is photographs of people taking photographs then I’d have to assume that metablogging is blogging about being blogged.
I just implemented a delicious tagging system on A Head Full of Wishes (which I’ll write up in more detail tomorrow) and posted about it to the Galaxie [...]