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The great “Twitter-Buzz experiment”!

June 16th, 2008 · 5 Comments

OK, here’s the plan - I’m interested to see how much of a buzz a modest number of twitter-followers can create about a particular site/service/artist/whatever, so I’m running a competition, in which y’all get to come up with whatever ideas you like to send your twitter-readers back to my site, or to my videos on […]

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Tags: Geek · Music News · Musing on Music · the future of music · tips for musicians

Social Media Thoughts 5: Sharing the Love pt 1 - fans.

June 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

If you listened to the podcast I’ve been talking about in the last couple of posts, you’ll know that one of the things I’ve been thinking about of late is how Social Media lets the story of what we do and why we do it be told in as many ways as there are people […]

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The foolishness of Copying Radiohead (or ‘why poor people vote for lower taxes’)

June 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments

[This started out as being my first post for MusicThinkTank.com, a site I’ve been invited to blog for, but ended up far too long to post there, so I’ll put it here, and post something else there… ]
So Trent Reznor has gone one step further than he did with Ghosts, and is giving all […]

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Social Media thoughts Pt 4 - the podcast!

May 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Last Friday, after the Social Media Cafe, I was interviewed by broadcaster and programme maker Penny Jackson for the Creative Coffee Club podcast. She’s a fantastic interviewer in that she asks the questions that from my site of the mic sound obvious, but are the things that make sense of a lot of the stuff […]

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Social Media thoughts Pt 3 - the ongoing conversation…

May 22nd, 2008 · 6 Comments

So, from my own ill-formed thoughts on how to use Social Media as a way of connecting with an audience, I started reading more about the way other people were doing the same thing, and watching what other musicians did. There’s been a lot of cross-pollenation, as musicians who’ve taken some of my ideas have […]

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Seesmic goes celeb crazy

May 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Things got very exciting this morning on Seesmic, the video conversation site, as a few of the regular posters got to interview some MASSIVE cinema celebs at the Cannes film festival… Something v. interesting occured, but as this is a post about seesmic, I think I’ll use seesmic to comment on it - and you […]

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Tags: Geek · film/tv

Social Media Thoughts Pt 2 - The Playground Of The Curious.

May 16th, 2008 · No Comments

I wrote off the idea of chasing a record deal before I even put out my first album. After a series of pretty uninspiring encounters with labels via artists I was working with in the 90s, and the simple fact that as far as I could see, no-one was making any money via a label […]

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Social Media thoughts Pt 1 - my background and history.

May 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments

The last couple of months have been a really interesting time for me in terms of getting to experiment with, understand and conceptualise about the world of interactive web tools refered to as ‘Social Media’. Next week is the first London Social Media Cafe Musicians get together (we need a new title!) - so I […]

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