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The rumors are true! Bruce Hembd (Horndog Blog) and I have decided to take our blogs to the next level with a new online venture, Horn Matters. This new site will be more than a combination of our two blogs; it is a new and different type of horn website which will be expanded further in scope in the coming years.
On August 31, 2009 the site went live at www.hornmatters.com, and the first day had nearly 900 unique visitors. At launch the site has nearly 800 posts to browse through on all sorts of horn related topics from the serious to the educational to the entertaining.
Why make this move? While we have both enjoyed our individual blog efforts (I believe the Horn Notes Blog may actually have been the first horn blog—the first posts were made in HTML in 2004) I think that above all Bruce and I see something beyond our individual blogs that we believe will be of interest to the horn community.
This move impacts at this time only the Horn Notes Blog. Horn Articles Online is still right where it was and will largely remain unchanged from what it is now, as will the ASU Horn Studio component of that site. But soon the blog content of the Horn Notes Blog will be deleted, with all existing posts and their comments being relocated to the Horn Matters site. The new design really opens up the older content to view; I believe it will be a truly unique and valuable horn resource.
There is one piece of bad news to relay to a few of you reading this now. The new Horn Matters site has been set up to follow the latest trends in website design and does not display correctly in Internet Explorer 6. I know from my stats about 9% of you out there use this browser still which is a fairly large number. If you can upgrade to Firefox I would suggest doing that ASAP (over 50% of visitors use this browser) and if you must continue to use IE6 I would suggest that you subscribe to the new Horn Matters site via Google Reader. This is a great product for following sites that support a RSS feed. It really is easy to use and will run well in IE6. Even if you don’t use IE6 Google Reader will change how you view the Internet, it is worth giving a try.