There are good days.. and there are bad days. Certainly, not all news days are the same. Some days I’m faced with selecting the best stories from a hand full of interesting potential posts. Other days I’m faced with no news whatsoever. So…I’ll take this time to share a little something with you guys, something personal.
First.. what is Magic News? I started Magic News last year as a benefit for readers of the Magic Roadshow Journal of Magic. I published it for several months, posting a month’s worth of news items at a time. Although readers seemed to enjoy it, life got in the way and I didn’t have time to continue publishing Magic News. The Roadshow, which has run for ten years now, came first.
I didn’t give up on the idea though, and now that I am able to cut back on my ‘other’ job, I’ve found time to publish news features in virtual real time. I sit down every night, review my sources, and publish the best news items. Most newspapers utilize RSS to send out ‘feeds’ to news conglomerates like Google and Yahoo, who in turn list these articles in their search results for the benefit of readers, researchers, other news sources, and folks like myself.. who, in turn, share it with readers who then visit the online newspapers to read the entire story. It’s a win – win for all of us..Since these stories tend to appear on the search engines before they appear in print, usually by an hour or so, it’s possible to read some of the features here before they appear in print.. (depending on how quickly I get it online..)
Secondly, I just published the 150th issue of the Magic Roadshow. I really want to find a way to combine the Roadshow with the Magic News. As of right now, I’m still publishing both as separate entities, but somehow, sometime in the not-to-distant future I hope to publish both in small segments, like the Magic News, as opposed to working like a crazy man for days trying to publish a single issue of the Roadshow.. I’ll figure it out one day..
And lastly.. who am I..? Roadshow readers know me, and I know many of them.. thanks to our communications through the years. My name is Rick Carruth, and I’m the guy who tries to put it all together. (That’s my mug shot in the upper right hand corner of the blog.) I’ve been in magic for many years, publish the Magic Roadshow, authored a few books, (see Amazon), and generally enjoy helping and sharing with other magicians. I hope you really enjoy MAGIC NEWS, and I sincerely hope you’ll email me with thoughts, comments, and suggestions. You won’t hurt my feelings.. I promise. You can contact me via this web form: https://magicroadshow.com/contact-us.php … or, just email me at Rick@Carruth.org
If you would like to get a look at one of my RSS ‘news feeds’, complete with magic news and scores from every team named ‘the magicians’.. go to: https://magicroadshow.com and click the News Feed link in the nav bar.