I’ve been thinking a lot about the price of my Music in the Digital Age book this evening. I listened to the Lean Blog podcast in which Mark Graban talked to Leanpub founders Peter Armstrong and Scott Patten, who talked about their philosophy for the business, and it started me thinking about the trajectory and [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Indulging my enthusiasms 0
I’ve been running a music blog called .com/music for a while now. It started life late last year as just a semi-private thing between me and my friends and colleagues – a way for me to process, bookmark and recommend all of the great music I was discovering on Bandcamp while writing reviews there. Along [...]
Tagged: blogging
Your logic cannot help you here 3
I ended up in something of a debate about ad-blockers on the internet yesterday. Radio “futurologist” (inverted commas because that term is so problematic for me) James Cridland wrote a blog post entitled Piracy and Ad-Blockers Are Both Theft. To which my simple, immediate and gut-response was simply “you’re wrong”. James tweeted a link to [...]
Categories: Idea,The Internet
Radio can be simple 1
I’ve been teaching music radio programming for a good few years now. All right, maybe it’s a decade. Or more. At any rate, it’s something that I really love doing and it’s something that I think there’s a real opportunity to have fun with, particularly given the technology available now. That said, it’s not as [...]
Tagged: Radio
First steps into the world 0
My book Music in the Digital Age is a work in progress. It’s already available, but it’s being published as I write it over the course of this year. As of today, it’s being published in multiple languages as well. I’m trying to get it translated into as many languages as possible, and I have [...]
Categories: Book
Tagged: translation
Jake’s new website 0
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been encouraging Jake to update his website. He’s been so busy in India that he hasn’t really had time to blog, but he has his own domain (jakedubber.com) and web space, so we had a chat about what would be a useful thing to put there. What he’s ended [...]
Categories: Family,The Internet
That time I worked for Warners 0
Stumbling through YouTube on a Waitangi Day inspired trip down NZ music memory lane dug up this little gem. I had almost completely forgotten – but not long after this was filmed, I became the live sound engineer for The Warners and went on tour with them. If I recall correctly, it was the Satellite [...]
Categories: Music
Support BOY for Waitangi Day 0
As you’ll no doubt already know, it’s traditional to give generous gifts to New Zealanders on Waitangi Day*. New Zealander Taika Waititi is trying to get his film BOY screened in the United States. February 6th is Waitangi Day. I’ve just put those two things together and made a connection. BOY is a fantastic film, [...]
Categories: culture,New Zealand
Tagged: films