Archive for the ‘music’ Category
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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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
I have been following Bum Rush the Charts, a massive social media experiment-- and the eventtakes place today, March 22.
BRTC is an attempt to put an independent (non-major label) music artist in the iTunes Top 100 charts for one day, through word of mouth.
Go to Christopher Penn's site at: http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com/bumrush ...
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Thursday, March 8th, 2007
While I often listen to podcasts during my workouts, I definitely just tune in some of my music part of the time, and I put a random mix of tunes on my MP3 player so I don't know what I'm gonna get. Sometimes, this really makes me smile.
Today, it was ...
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2005
I've been hearing that Jimmy Smith died last night-- this is the loss of a great jazz legend. I have often wondered why there have not been more organ players in jazz. While there are several any jazz fan can name at the drop of the hat (Lonnie Liston Smith, ...
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2005
I have way too many CDs (is ther such a thing?). Anyhow, at some point in 2004 I gave up being selective in packing my travel CD case (ok-- I know I haven't joined the iPod generation yet, but give it time), and just started throwing in my CDs alphabetically ...
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