I just discovered a new music marketing blog (hat tip to Gerd Leonhard). The post that caught my immediate attention was The Top 10 Music Social Networks. Glad to see my favorite social music site, Last.fm, is on the list. … [Read more...]
I’ll Miss You, Ze
This is the final week of The Show by Ze Frank. A full year commitment fulfilled. Talk about a challenge! Ze inspired me a lot this past year. His show is most definitely 2nd Tier, even if he doesn't know it. But that didn't inspire me as much as … [Read more...]
Google’s Duplicate Content Filter And Your FeedBurner Feed – What You Should Know
It seems that with the infiltration of spam sites and splogs into Google's search index, they came up with a duplicate content filter to solve this problem. These spam sites use automated tools to scrape content from other websites with the hopes of … [Read more...]
Musicians With Day Jobs: Get More Energy…
Lori has some useful tips if "you're perpetually trying to squeeze more hours into the day to get more time to work on your music or other projects." Check her out: Useful energizer software for musicians who still have time-consuming day jobs … [Read more...]
The Problem With Summary Feeds
You'd better have a good headline or I'm not going to visit your site. And if I do visit your site but the rest of the article isn't as good as the headline, then you've lost me. I'll only make that mistake once and then I'll probably … [Read more...]
Best Blogs On Music
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Thomas Dolby is blogging
From Instapundit: THOMAS DOLBY is now blogging. I also found a great video of him performing a synth medley with Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder and Howard Jones from the 1985 Grammys. I remember seeing it as a 13 year old and freaking out. It … [Read more...]
Get Hip To Your Consumer “Mecosystems”
From Get Down with the People: Today I participated in a meeting with a group of senior marketers from one of the largest global companies in the world. At one point the exec who convened the team asked me point blank, "Steve, what's the most … [Read more...]
Creative Commons Victory
I was talking to my roommate about starting a blog yesterday and the subject of copyright came up. I told him about the Creative Commons license. As a serendipitous example of morphogenetic fields, these posts showed up in my newsreader: A CC First … [Read more...]
Understanding Iraq On The Third Anniversary
As a practice of taking multiple perspectives, I thought it would be a good idea to try to understand the situation in Iraq by reading the opinions of Iraqis. This blog seems like a good place to start. … [Read more...]