Well, well, well. Well into the 21st century and posting my first blog. I feel like tapping my com button and telling Scotty or Data to beam me up. Or maybe I’l just get another cup of coffee to beam me up. The Songwriters Series Internet TV Show is in in its fourth season of television broadcast and its second season of Internet television broadcast. We have been pioneering independent Internet TV for two years and, lately, it looks like the world is catching on. We hold monthly concerts in Austin, TX from March to November. We broadcast live to the world through the Internet our concerts AND tape them to edit them into our 30-minute weekly Internet television series broadcast on songwritersseries.com. We are sponsored by AVAA and the City of Austin, the Texas Commission on the Arts, TVKnob.com and Hank Sinatra Presents.
Lately, though, we have had some interesting new developments outside of this pioneering new blog (cough-cough). First of the all, the vision of the Austin 
Visual Arts Association (AVAA) and their generous non-profit housing of our show to receive grants has been a great new addition, support and recognition for our television series. Secondly, the recent agreement with San Francisco-based Blinkx and their Internet TV broadcast search engine contacting us after viewing the show wanting to partner showed that the high-tech industry is investing into the Internet TV broadcast industry. And finally, the number of e-mails and requests we have been receiving from songwriters across the world is also a testament of the power of marketing your art to the world with today’s technology.
Somebody has told the world about the Songwriters Series Internet Television Series and now I have to blog about it. With hundreds of weekly songwriters 
requests to be on our show, I have the enviable task of scouting tomorrow’s stars today or promoting today’s songwriting stars with tomorrow’s technology. (How’s that for a play on tenses? Or was it a tense play at a play on tenses?) If you do not know what the Songwriters Series is, go to our current show at songwritersseries.com. Or if you want the real Songwriters Series experience, log onto our website, Saturday nights when the season kicks off in March and watch our concerts live.
Well, there it is. My first blog and I can only hope that it worked and somebody out there in the cyberworld actually read it and understood it.
-Richard May, Songwriters Series
