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This is where it get’s tricky - I think it’s important to properly plan a campaign and select those sites that will best serve your needs. It’s not a cse of throwing out as much as you can and seeing what sticks. You gotta make noise sure, but you gotta make the right noise in the right places.
LP33.tv launches the underground’s answer to MySpace Music
From Venturebeat:Today, LP33.tv, the company formerly known as MyAWOL, goes live with its intensely ambitious site for unsigned musicians. The site centers around a video player that features original music videos, short band documentaries and news clips, all produced by LP33’s team, itself. There are rapid edits, hipster rockers, punky pop princesses, and cooler-than-thou VJs, all hearkening back to the MTV and VH1 glory days of yore.
LP33’s goal is to create a platform for finding and promoting unsigned musical talent. The package, which includes artist’s bios and posts from “influential” bloggers, has greater scope and depth than that of competitor, Topspin Media, which has similar goals but less impressive flair. The whole thing, which we first glimpsed this summer, has many of the makings of terrific execution.
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Don't be afraid of the Cloud
I’ve seen this sort of thing before but I’m afraid it doesn’t hold much traction with me. One would be forgiven for thinking Richard Stallman doesn’t really understand what cloud computing is (Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman).
He does understand it of course, but he’s just pretending he doesn’t to make a point. What he is actually cross about isn’t cloud computing in itself. He’s cross about the centralisation and monopolisation of computer technology property.
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Whenever I read a sentence like “The 55-year-old New Yorker said that computer users should be keen to keep their information in their own hands, rather than hand it over to a third party,” I tend to think someone is being rather paranoid. This is a man who according to Wikipedia “recommends not owning a mobile phone, as he believes the tracking of cell phones creates harmful privacy issues.”
Finally, if these companies do start charging or increasing prices because they think we’re locked in ther will always be an alternative. I’ll just jump ship.
I think maybe it is time to start leaving the web to people who grew up not knowing what it was like not to be able send information freely around the world. Clay Shirky explains that the people in the class he teaches never get older (they move on). They can extrapolate down from 500 TV channels to 5, they understand the concepts of broadcast media. What they (i.e. we, by which I mean Sam and me) have trouble with is the idea that we can’t publish whatever we want. Working in the cloud is here to stay. We are not scared of Big Brother. We are scared of old men who think dangerous thoughts.
8 Tips On How To Make The Most Out Of Your Mailing List
A post for the company that I work for (Sentric Music) offering some advice for unsigned/independent musicians on how to make the most out of their mailing list. Please forward on (or re-blog) if you now anyone who’ll find it of use!
Pretty sound advice….
This is the best application ever. No joke. At least for anyone who happens to be a concert fanatic, like me. iConcertCal installs in your iTunes and lists the upcoming shows in your area of all the artists in your iTunes. Bananas. Obsessed already.
mashing up two data sets to extraordinary effect!