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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I’ve written a lot over the years about the power of curiosity – that most of my own best disoveries have just happened because I was interested in something and decided to investigate it without waiting for any kind external confirmation...
Topics: bass ideas, comedy, Geek, marketing, the future of music, video, xtranormal, youtube

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Over on the Beyond Bass Camp blog, I wrote a post about ‘The Convergence Pyramid’ – the idea that the higher up/deeper you go into any endeavour (in that case, learning bass), the less distinguishable the various fragmented elements are from...
Topics: beyond bass camp, billy bragg, business, convergence, creativity, peter jenner, the future of music

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