A wise man once said, ‘do unto others as you’d have them do unto you.’ Advice that works incredibly well online. In my wanderings round the web, I’m seeing two very distinct groups of musicians.Those who are part of a...
Topics: blogging, community, discovery, posterous, recommendations, sharing, the future of music, transformative

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I’ve just been reading Helienne Lindvall’s latest blog post on the Guardian site, entitled, ” Behind the music: Can we ever measure the impact of downloading?“It’s well worth a read, as it talks about vested interests on...
Topics: downloads, featured artist coalition, free music, guardian, helienne lindvall, mp3s, the future of music, youtube

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For the last couple of Novembers I’ve been aware of friends of mine being a part of ‘National Novel Writing Month‘, more often referred to (at least, on twitter) as NaNoWriMo.So this afternoon, on a whim, I thought ‘I wonder if I..
Topics: book, Geek, journalism, music, nanowrimo, novel, Random Catchup, revolution, twitter

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Right, so “Lord” Mandelson has announced that the Government is indeed going to go ahead with their unenforceable nonsensical plans to “cripple the internet bandwidth of persistent file sharers“. Here’s a few highlights of...
Topics: downloading, featured artist coalition, file sharing, lunacy, P2P, peter mandelson, the future of music

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OK, so the thought of maintaining a blog full of pontifications on the state of the world, the web, music, whatever is a bit daunting. The self-imposed expectation that there needs to be loads of amazing stuff to read about on your awesome blog is just...
Topics: bandcamp, blogging, Geek, posterous, sharing, social DNA, the future of music, youtube

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