Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
This is an open challenge. You come up with a solution, you get a job. Seriously.
There’s a lot of smart people out there. Check out Mark Cuban’s Movie Business Challenge
This is one of those lists that can piss you off! I’d say that it’s a lot more than embarrassing. It’s down right unethical.
From Embarrassing questions for the entertainment industry:
# The RIAA has sued more than 20,000 music fans for file sharing, yet file sharing continues to rapidly increase both online and offline. When will [...]
Al Gore is planning to address Wal-Mart executives next week at the retailer’s quarterly conference on sustainability, part of the company’s recent efforts to become “an environmental leader”.
I hope they start a trend.
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From Day 2 of The Rocketboom Zone: the show must go on:
Was she fired or did she quit? The story is turning into a nasty breakup. TDavid has the most complete coverage and he’s done with it all until there is a “major revelation and/or solution.”
Me too.
Congdon Fired from RocketBoom:
Rocketboom was a daily watch for me. (Rocketboom and Ze Frank). And 80% of the reason I watched was because of Amanda. The other 20% was the content. Even when she talked about things I didn’t care about, I watched her. So I’ll probably unsubscribe at some point. But I’ll be curious [...]
CEOs build trust and get money from shareholders by making quarterly PowerPoint presentations detailing their past successes and future plans. Why wouldn’t the President of The United States of America use this simple and powerful technology to build trust and gain support from US citizens?
From Introducing ad scheduling:
Today we released ad scheduling, an advanced campaign management feature that allows you to determine when your ads run.
I’ve been waiting for Adwords ad scheduling for a long time.
From Buddha’s SEO:
The essence of SEO is suffering
All traffic is transitory
There is a rank beyond page rank
No ban is permanent – all pages get reborn
From MicroPersuasion: Blog Pioneer Robert Scoble Moves On
Dave Winer: Scoble moves
And Scoble, himself: Correcting the Record about Microsoft
I’ll watch where he goes.
From Pubsub Implosion:
Blog search engine PubSub had massive layoffs today after last minute merger discussions with knownow fell apart. It looks like a shutdown is imminent.
This really sucks. I’ve used pubsub for a long time now. I even discovered a sordid leak for an important friend just two days ago. So pubsub has proven its [...]
Find out more: Music Business Radio – Weekly Podcast Now Available
Current show features Dez Dickerson. Dez is probably best known as the lead guitarist and musical director for Prince and the Revolution, but has worked with a number of artists including Narada Michael Walden, Aretha Franklin, and Vanity 6.
You will learn a lot about [...]
From Help define “open business”:
We started Openbusiness to share knowledge about business models that give a substantial portion of their main product away for free. By “free” we meant free as in “freedom” and also as in “free beer”, paraphrasing Richard Stallman’s famous illustration of the difference between “freed” from restrictions of intellectual property law [...]
If you’ve got the kind of product or service that needs demonstrating, Google video ads look very promising. On the other hand, putting an extra click between the visitor and the advertiser is probably going to lower CTR compared to text ads. But the visitor might be more qualified so I predict the conversion rate [...]
It used to be that if you had one of your Google ads disapproved, Google would manually review the edited ad before making it active again. Now all you do is edit the ad and it goes live. No more manual review.
Cool. Because I sometimes waited 24 to 48 hours before my ads would go [...]
Warner Bros. is looking to promote bands in virtual worlds.
Warner Bros. Records is looking to create Second Life environments for some of its bands, judging this blog post by its director of technology, Ethan Kaplan. Kaplan writes that he wants to hire “someone who knows Second Life like the back of their hand to create [...]
I really like this one from Hugh. It inspires me.
From stay ahead of the culture:
Mark Cuban did a vanity search on Google and found a personal message via Google Adwords. The advertiser figured he could get Mark’s attention by bidding on his name as a keyword and by writing an ad directed to him.
Talk about highly targeted marketing!
Link: Eurekster The Best Sales Idea I have seen in a long [...]
I have been speaking with a business friend of mine, Greg Percifield. In case you don’t know him, he’s the owner of Music Forte Inc. We were discussing various CD distribution companies, and the problems that existed in that field of the music business. We both concluded that the rate of actual distribution is very [...]
“Google is actually the first company with a brand that is built entirely of stem cells: able to grow and develop into whatever form it sees fit.”
How cool would it be if you combined Google’s DNA with a Holocracy? read more.
From if you’re not in it for the money:
Drawing by satirist High Macleod. Inspired by The last gasp of the power of the press:
Part-time boldfacer Jared Paul Stern was caught on tape allegedly shaking down billionaire investor Ronald W. Burkle for $100,000 down and $10,000 a month in return for snark-protection from The Post.
…And it [...]
about grahamI'm a songwriter and recording artist who sings, plays keyboards, and explores the vast world of sound hoping to find some magical moments along the way. I'm also a Mac geek.
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