Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Today marks the first time that musicians not affiliated with a label or royalty collection agency can collect revenue direct from a free streaming music platform. Read on…
2007 was the year of social networking. Twitter occupied most of time which led to much less blogging. But 2007 was not without its controversies and celebrations. Read on…
In this episode I test recording on the iPod with my Belkin TuneTalk adapter on the way to the gym.
As bloggers, we tend to do the same repetitive tasks over and over again. We open the same URLs. We launch the same apps. We ftp, we search Technorati, we comment, we do this day in and day out. The 80/20 rule would tell us that creating content in the form of blog posts, [...]
I just got the email I had been waiting for:
Daily Source Code has played your song On My Feet Again. Find out more about this PodShow at http://music.podshow.com/
That right. One of my songs was just played on Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code! I don’t know exactly how many subscribers he has, but it’s a lot.
For [...]
In the news right now: The Science of Hit Songs:
People pick favorites largely on what others have deemed popular, a new study finds.
The study itself may be new but the principle isn’t. Robert Cialdini, Ph.D., in an academic setting, created the 6 principles of ethical influence many years ago. One of them is the principle [...]
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) allows you to syndicate or subscribe to the feed of a website, blog or almost any media content online (not just articles, it can be music, video or almost any digital media). So instead of having to go visit each and every website to read the latest content, you can use [...]
About this time last week (yeah, I know. Not much of a friday night. I had a cold) I uploaded my music to the Podshow Podcast Network. It took about me 10 minutes.
By Monday, I was published on Grok Radio (Episode 9). Thanks Doug and Susan.
Yesterday I was published in the Netherlands on RobKast [...]
Coolfer: Rolling Stone on 2005: “The Worst Year Ever”:
Album sales have dropped 21% since 2000 but sales of digital tracks rose to 353 million from 141 million in 2004, and sales of digital albums rose to 16.2 million from 5.5 million last year.
The time is ripe for podcasting and using RSS to distribute your music. [...]
RSS made it possible for everyone to participate in publishing on equal technological footing with NYT.
Specifically for musicians, blogging and podcasting make it possible for musicians to participate in music publishing on better technological footing than the major labels.
The kicking-and-screaming RIAA is clinging to CDs while digital delivery of music via P2P is winning the [...]
I'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.
Really tired of following people and immediately getting a DM pitch. (>_<) 8 hrs ago
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