Category: music

  • Pan-Mass Challenge Training & Fundraising Update; Getting There, But Still Need Your Help

    Together, we are doing a small but significant part to find a cure for cancer. Please consider sponsoring me- at any amount- in the 30th annual Pan-Mass Challenge, an incredible 2-day journey through the Bay state the first weekend in August. You may donate at http://pmc.org/DH0159. Well, here we are in June. This is the […]

  • Uttercast: Pan-Mass Challenge Update

    The Pan-Mass Challenge isn’t until August, and my bike remains neglected in my dark, not exactly photogenic basement, but I already have a couple of things to report: 1) Within 310 days of registering, I had already raised $150$225 from you generous folks! A great first step towards my goal of $4,200. To donate and […]

  • Uttercast: Do Taglines Matter?

    Do taglines matter? They’re supposed to convey the company or product meaning in a snappy few words. But do the audiences care? Forrester Research’s Jeremiah Owyang (http://web-strategist.com/blog) has done something fun on this topic: he set up a quiz (the quix has since been closed) inviting people to identify the companies in the social media […]

  • Tech Blogs Take On PR; Lots of Delicious Food for Thought

    UPDATE, July 8, 2009: Welcome, David Weinberger friends and fans! It seems David mistakenly linked to this post in a Tweet. Please stick around and enjoy this slightly aged but still relevant post about public relations. If you want the “United Broke My Guitar Video,” please go here. One of the occupational realities of working […]

  • Quality and Standards: How much for that video?

    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 video more interactive by allowing […]

  • Autographed CD – a nice bonus for the fans

    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 see that, when the […]

  • Cool band I have liked for years- “The Shazam”

    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 that The Shazam were heavily […]

  • Label promotes Matchbox 20 release w/ MP3 bracelet

  • Summer of Love, 40 years on: Will we do it again?

    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 of the top-down variety, […]

  • DRM, part 2: DRM=CRAP (re-posted)

    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