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OK, Pt II of the experiment is an easy-ish one, if you’re already on Last.fm.
In case you don’t know, Last.fm is an online radio/playlist/social network site - the heart of it is an ENORMOUS catalogue of songs, many of which can be streamed on demand, and all of which crop up in radio stations, [...]

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Been having some fantastic conversations with creative people of late on the subject of originality. It’s a subject that seems to lead to wildly different comments and responses from creative people, but rather too often seems to become deified or fetishised to the detriment of the resultant art.
With solo bass being such a niche musical [...]

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Thanks to this post on lovely Valerie Gonyea’s blog, I’ve found very cool quote from this great post by Seth Godin:
“Here, it’s simple:
You can contact just about anyone you want. The only rule is you need to contact them personally, with respect, and do it months before you need their help! Contact them about them, [...]

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There’s a way of viewing online marketing that I’m going to characterise as Technodarwinism. [Just to clarify, I didn't invent the word, but I'm using it in this context to refer to a kind of 'survival of the best proliferated', rather than the more positive possible meaning about the continuing evolution and bettering of technological [...]

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So the last four days have been spent touring the south of England giving masterclasses at branches of the The Academy Of Music And Sound - a chain of music schools that stretches the length of the UK, but is focussed around the south west and midlands.
Once a year they do a masterclass week, where [...]

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Thanks so much for all the comments and feedback about the first Managing Information Streams post. Some GREAT stuff in the comments there.
I want to follow that up with what is fast becoming my favourite web-filter, and will hopefully become my primary interface with my network - Twitter.
The tech media has been full of articles [...]

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This will (I think) be the first in a series of posts about this, mainly because it’s an ongoing struggle and area of conceptual development.
So, I’ll start by saying where my problem lies - a lot of the stuff online about being overwhelmed by email starts by talking about spam. Apart from when I’ve had [...]

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A few thoughts that sprung from a comment response here and a twitter conversation, re: the myspace vs facebook thing.
One of the problems with being a webgeek is that it’s easy to forget to think how Webphobic digital-dabblers engage with the web. They often choose an ecosystem that feels homely, one that while not being [...]

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I’ll be back to blogging the deep stuff - lots of ideas coming off the back of the last post (read the comments, there are some good ones) - but first, a video for which only one TLA could possibly suffice…
W. T. F. ??
this, dear bloglings, is a strange kind of genius, it’s some kind [...]

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I’ve written before about the need for filtering in the online music world - there’s just too much music and not enough time to leave it all to chance. As Jeff Schmidt just expressed it on twitter - “curation is vital”.
Which is why I’ve just started To The Left Of The Mainstream - a twitter-based [...]

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