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November 11, 2011 By Graham English

The blog has been asking for some love for a while now. I've had several projects requiring long and intense attention and I'm happy to say that she's back on my list of high priorities. First, here's some of what I've been up to. I completed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestream, Prose, Technology Tagged With: Aweber, Berklee, Berklee College of Music, blog, Blogging, Blueprint CSS, Boston Terriers, buttons, calendar, coding, CSS, CSS3, email, Facebook, Field Trip, funk, GigPress, gigs, Google, gradients, guitar, guitar effects, HTML5, HTML5 Boilerplate, iTunes, jazz, keyboards, Logic Studio Training, page speed, programming, Songwriting, Songwriting Master, Stomp Box Guru, Sweden, Twitter, typography, update, YouTube

The Decade In Music: How Musicians Create

December 3, 2009 By Graham English

How has technology changed the relationship between musicians and their fans? While major record labels still struggle to grasp the power of the MP3, artists, including Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes, have embraced and even found creative solutions … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose, Technology Tagged With: bloggers, Blogging, David Rawlings, digital music, Facebook, fans, file sharing, free, Gillian Welch, imeem, John Mayer, Julie Greenwald, Kevin Barnes, major labels, mp3, music distribution, Music Industry, music technology, musicians, MySpace, Napster, NPR, Of Montreal, P2P, Steve Albini, Technology, Twitter

The New Music Business Model: Imogen Heap

August 18, 2009 By Graham English

Enter: Imogen Heap. Some people may recognize Imogen as the beautiful vocalist of Frou Frou. Others may be familiar with her song “Hide & Seek” or the song she wrote for The Chronicles of Narnia, “Can’t Take it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose Tagged With: Blogging, flickr, Imogen Heap, marketing, Music Business, music marketing, TweetUp, Twitter, vlogging

From The Notebook 12-7-08

December 8, 2008 By Graham English

Chris Brogan's article, How Alltop Powers Bloggers, has a tip to get more traffic by getting added to an Alltop topic. Go here to sign up. Maybe if enough of us submit the topic, independentmusicians, it will be recognized. Here's a pair of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose, Technology Tagged With: Alltop, Apple, Blogging, bookmarking, bookmarks, Chris Brogan, contracts, del.icio.us, dropbox, Google, independent musicians, indie music, Mac, mp3, music contracts, music licensing, Music Publishing, musicians, OSX, Rumblefish, scripting, scripts, SoundCloud, traffic, YouTube

Weekend Links For Your Pleasure

October 3, 2008 By Graham English

I've been extremely light on the blogging front lately, but I have big plans to breathe new life into this site. I'll be shifting gears as I reexamine my time, attention, and creative work. In the mean time, here's a few links I've been meaning to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestream Tagged With: Apple, applications, apps, Blogging, brain, creativity, iPhone, Korg, links, MIDI controllers, mind, musicians, nanoKey, Science, theremin

The Best Of Graham English 2007

December 24, 2007 By Graham English

It's time for my yearly reflections and celebrations. By far the most popular and most controversial post of 2007 was The Zen Of Attraction. I'm surprised at the attention it received because I wrote it as an aside. Some people loved it and some … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestream, Prose Tagged With: 2007, Adium, Apple, AppleScript, attraction, automation, Blogging, community, controversy, Ear Training, Facebook, fun, Growl, GTD, hacks, humor, iChat, ILP, IM, iPhone, Last.fm, lyric writing, Mac, MacBook Pro, Music Theory, OSX, podcasting, productivity, Quicksilver, relationships, Skype, social networking, Songwriting, Stumbleupon, Twitter, Wordpress, zen

Headlines On The Web Benefit From Passive Voice

October 25, 2007 By Graham English

Boing Boing posted an article summarizing Jakob Nielsen's findings that web-headlines benefit from the use of the passive voice. Great copywriters will tell you that your headlines need powerful action words and compelling benefits to get the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose Tagged With: best practices, Blogging, Copywriting, headlines, tips

How To Use TextMate As NetNewsWire’s External Blog Editor

October 8, 2007 By Graham English

I used to be an Ecto user but I have since seen the light and call TextMate my be-all-end-all blogging tool. The only thing I missed was being able to use Ecto as my external blog editor while reading feeds in NetNewsWire. Not anymore! Thanks to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Prose, Technology Tagged With: AppleScript, Blogging, Ecto, GTD, HowTo, NetNewsWire, productivity, TextMate, tools, tutorials

Graham English Talks Episode 4

August 21, 2007 By Graham English

In this episode I test recording on the iPod with my Belkin TuneTalk adapter on the way to the gym. Here I discuss my bad iPhone driving habits, my practice of automating the quality of your attention, weight loss, the TNT diet, escalating density … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Graham English Talks Tagged With: 4HWW, attention, automation, Blogging, diet, exercise, fitness, iPhone, iPod, iWeb, plugins, podcasting, podsafe, weight loss, Wordpress, workout

30 Day Challenge Starts Tomorrow

July 31, 2007 By Graham English

I've been a bad blogger, I know. Here's what happened. I read The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris and started questioning how I spend my time. As much as I enjoy blogging, I realized that I needed to shift some of my priorities if I was going to be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose Tagged With: 4 Hour Workweek, 4HWW, Blogging, challenge, internet marketing, iPhone, lifestyle, Mac, Master Mind, Tim Ferris

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