Archive for the ‘music’ Category
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
One of the occupational realities of working in the public relations world, is that our media "targets" (yes, we use that word) often write about us, mostly when they are frustrated and want to vent about how terrible we are. I'm not complaining, as we get our rewards and kudos ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
At Social Media Breakfast 8 in Cambridge, Mass. on June 24, the topic was video, and some innovative ways people are using video. Of particular interest to me were Ben Grossman and Emily Belyea's presentation of their www.talktorunningman.com project at Emerson College, and Rob Lane's explanation of how Overlay.tv
makes ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
As readers of my blog saw recently, I am a fan of a semi-obscure rock group called The Shazam. When I wrote that earlier post, I realized I did not have one of their CDs, called "Rev9" for their more-interesting-than-I-thought-it-would-be cover of the Beatles' "Revolution #9."
I was happily surprised to ...
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
I am probably more of a jazz music fan than anything else, but certain types of rock music aways get to me. I came across Nashville, Tennessee-based The Shazam several years ago when I was getting into music by The Move (the band that became Electric Light Orchestra) and saw ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
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Sunday, May 20th, 2007
My thoughts on this are not completely formed, but I am throwing this out there to see what comments I get.
In today's Sunday New York Times Arts section was a huge story on the Summer of Love-- 1967 (login required). The article outlined how reenactments and celebrations will largely be ...
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
After my rejoicing about non-DRM music from EMI, I now come across this
from David Berlind of ZDNet. It sums up my feelings about DRM and why I can't, in general, support devices -- or software-- that use it.
Tech Tags: DRM digital+rights+management ZDNetipodDavid+Berlind
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Wow.
I'm blown away by Apple and EMI's latest announcement that the company will makes its artists' music available through the iTunes store without DRM (digital rights management, a.k.a. copyright protection). On top of that, the tunes will be offered at double the normal iTunes sound quality-- not CD quality, ...
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Several friends in the social media-sphere were rabid supporters of Bum Rush the Charts last Thursday, March 22, and I joined in.
In short, BRTC was an effort to show that people could join together in a grass roots fashion to push an independent musician to the top of the iTunes ...
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007
Just posted Episode 8 of PRobecast, Topaz Partners' weekly Tech PR podcast.
This week's panel, Tim Allik, Rob Capra and Doug Haslam, discuss:
Opening notes-- thanks to Sam Whitmore for the mention in his latest Media Survey podcast
Listener comment -- Bryan Person of Bryper.com and the New Comm Road podcast on Bum ...
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