Andrew Dubber     

You wouldn’t think it to look at this site, but I’ve been doing an awful lot of blogging recently. There are some projects that I work on that have blogs of their own, which we use as a way of keeping track of what we’ve been doing and how that’s coming along. Sort of a project diary, if you like. There are two major projects doing this — and I seem to be spending half of my days working on one or the other.

I’ve also started writing more on New Music Strategies, and a group blog called Uni Survival, which is fairly self explanatory. New Music Ideas is getting a revamp and a fresh injection of energy over February/March, and I’m about a week or two from launching New Radio Strategies, which is actually the blog I should have launched first as it’s the subject I theoretically know most about.

There’s another new group blog on the way, and this one promises to be the flagship of the group. I need to get to work on that, because all we need now is a name, a design and a WordPress installation and we’re off.

I’ve also been doing a fair bit of talking recently, with seminars in some interesting places. I went to Wrexham last week for a big Musicians Union seminar, met some very nice people and told them about the internet. I’ve got a lot more of that sort of thing coming up too.

I’m off to Holland tomorrow for the weekend – Groningen and Leeuwarden in the North, speaking in Manchester on Tuesday, London on Wednesday, then off to Oslo for a few days. I get back from Norway, only to head down to London again, then straight back on a plane to Amsterdam for a day or two, followed by a six hour train trip to Edinburgh.

The big news is a keynote presentation I’m going to be giving at a mobile music industry conference in Shanghai in April. Very excited about the Shanghai bit – completely over the moon about the keynote bit.

But I feel I’ve been neglecting this blog a bit, so I’m going to take the same approach to it I’ve started taking to New Music Strategies – trying to do a little something a little more often, and it doesn’t have to be big news – just a little something to keep things ticking along.

Of course, now that the semester has started back up, and the big new research project that buys out half of my time has kicked off, things are a little busy – but with any luck, there’ll be some down time as I move from place to place, so I can get a bit of writing in.

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