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I’ve been asked a few times lately to give quotes to people to use for promo purposes, so I thought it would be a good time to offer some thoughts on the process. Largely because it’s something I’ve done myself from time to time, and continue to do when the conditions are right…
Firstly, it’s worth […]

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One of the most linked to blog posts in the last few months in the musical blogosphere is Kevin Kelly’s piece on 1000 True Fans - it’s a great piece of writing, and quite inspiring too.
However, I’d like to get away from the numbers for a moment and talk about this whole thing of connecting […]

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Here’s a load of more general twitter tips, based on my observation of what goes on on there, and in no small part based on the things I’ve got wrong, and the twittering faux-pas I still make, but designed to help us use Twitter as part of a well-managed information filter… (I’ll blog about something […]

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Jeff Schmidt just linked to this article via his Google Shared Items (find them in the side bar on his blog and grab the RSS feed) -
Facebook Music Rocks, in which the author waxes lyrical about how functional the Facebook music pages are. Which is true, they are, functionally, kicking the ass of MySpace, with […]

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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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