Last month, I swapped my personal blogging over to Tumblr. I may still post the occasional “essay” over here, but the short multimedia posting action on Tumblr seems the right fit for now. Check it out here.
Topics: Uncategorized

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We just launched 2 great new pages aimed at giving both listeners and DJs an easy way to review “new stuff” of interest on 8tracks.  (Re-posting from company blog at http://8tracks.tumblr.com/ as not sure how to do automatically yet.)For...
Topics: ventures

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There’s a subtle but important distinction between what 8tracks offers as compared with what Last.fm or Pandora provide.I enjoy both Last.fm and Pandora and have written about them in the past.  Both deliver a radio-style experience that is...
Topics: discovery, ventures

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As many of you know, I’ve been focused on a new digital music venture for about 2 years now, starting with a pretty “web 1.0″ path (write business plan, create financial model, talk to VCs) and subsequently wising up to a more pragmatic.
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Compete.com launched its own ranking of top music sites, probably saving me a lot of work going forward. Helpfully, the new rankings also include the music subdomains on Yahoo, AOL, MySpace, and MSN. They’re still missing a few of the smaller...
Topics: discovery, valuation, ventures

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