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Hello everyone and thanks once again for stopping by!  Before I get started, please accept my apologies for the lack of new content over the last week.  I’ve been plotting, planning and strategising the future of Urban Ghosts Media, and an exciting new course for 2010!

First of all, for those that missed the recent update to the News section, click here to to get the latest.

Because I essentially covered much of what needed to be said in that update, I’ll not bore you with the same details again.  To summarize briefly, Urban Ghosts Media has now been on the scene for five months, hitting the web on August 20, 2009.  Since that time, the magazine has gone on to develop a loyal following and increasing numbers of visitors from across the world, with the majority of readers from the US, Australia and my own home country, the UK.

The whole experience has been exciting and challenging, with the most rewarding aspect being the feedback and encouragement I get from you the reader!  It has not always been easy, trying to maintain a steady(ish) flow of new and interesting material while being a one-man band with other work commitments.  But the experience has definitely been rewarding and an invaluable learning curve.  And I’m happy to say Urban Ghosts Media is ready to be taken to the next level!

While trying to grow the website in stages, my primary objective is to try and reach an ever increasing audience with more sophisticated and educational material.  Many of the articles so far, while hopefully interesting and fun (and the feedback I’m delighted to say has been positive), have been a collection of inspiring pictures with some interspersed narrative that loosely relates to them.

My aim is to continue the balance between pictures and words, but make the articles more sophisticated, with words that really qualify every picture and vice versa, so that the various components of each article tell a collective story, which in turn relates to the overall theme of the magazine.

If that sounds slightly confusing, I hope to explain what it is I am trying to say through the next series of articles.  These are currently in the pipeline and will be delivered very soon, with momentum gathering from the time the first one appears on the homepage.  Pleased stay tuned and thank you for your patience during this process.

Future plans to grow the website will be announced in due course, but at the moment suffice to say that this will mean more indepth articles, a greater number of articles daily, and so on.  For the moment though, I intend to concentrate on one solid article per day, seven days a week.  On that note I’d like to thank you again for your feedback and continued support, without which Urban Ghosts Media would not be where it is today!

As ever, please feel free to send any thoughts and messages you may want to share.  Also, if you have any ideas of what can be improved or good ideas for future articles, I’d love to hear them.  Here’s looking forward to an exciting 2010 and great things to come!

Best wishes,

Tom

p.s. For anyone interested, the image at the top of this article was the first ever image posted on the website.  It depicts the iconic Angel of the North by Antony Gormley, located in Gateshead, UK.  Check out the full article here.