I spent the day today working at home with my colleague Jez Collins and after a lot of planning, writing and brainstorming, we had a Skype meeting with Professor Tim Wall to talk about (among other things) the ongoing development of Masters programmes at Birmingham City University. I’m already the award leader on an MA [...]
Categories: University
Tagged: BCU, Internet, mamusicind, mamusicrad
Photo by YlvaS I’ve been thinking a great deal about radio over the past few weeks. After having done the conference keynote in Auckland, a number of things have lined up to bring me back into that world, after a good five or so years being only peripherally involved at best. I’ve been asked to [...]
Categories: Radio
The first thing you should know about the Product Manager for MySpace Music is that he’s an independent musician. He’s in a band called Big Kid. That’s him playing the drums. He also writes most of the songs. I found that both encouraging and surprising. Myspace Music Product Manager Steve Clark approached me through my [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: Internet, New Music Strategies, online music
I first met Nancy Baym on Twitter, and now we’re also friends on Facebook. We’ve talked via email about a couple of things as well. She’s a professor in the US and we have some mutual friends in common, many of whom one or both of us have never actually met in person. She’s written [...]
Categories: culture,Education,Technology,University
Tagged: Academic, Internet, Interview, Music, Social media
A couple of years back now (was it really that long ago?) my friend Stef and I made a website together. It was called I So Wish, and it’s not online anymore (so that link won’t actually work), but when it was active, it was a nice little community of people who would wish for [...]
Categories: Book
Photo by mkorchia In a new Wired magazine article called The Web Is Dead, Long Live The Internet, Editor in chief Chris Anderson (author of ‘The Long Tail‘ and ‘Free‘) declares the demise of the web browser in favour of dedicated apps on devices such as iPads and iPhones (no mention of Android handsets, then). [...]
Categories: Technology
Tagged: Apps, electricity, hairdryer, Internet, iPad, iPhone, toaster
I’ve been having conversations over the past 24 hours about the ‘value’ of social media. The social transparency and personal profile that this kind of medium affords is one of those things that crops up from time to time in articles such as this one in Techcrunch and this one in Music Think Tank – [...]
Categories: culture,Family,Music,Technology
We’ve recently moved into a new neighbourhood, and I’ve been checking out the local spots. I love the record store here (apparently there’s a better website on the way) – and our local pub is a fantastic venue for all sorts of great live gigs – the sort of international calibre stuff you wouldn’t expect [...]
Categories: culture,Technology
I want to make a very simple point. Almost too simple for a blog post. But it won’t fit into 140 characters, so it’s too long for Twitter, and I don’t know what proportion of my friends on Facebook would care about this – so it’s here for whoever’s interested. Katy Bairstow wrote a thoughtful [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: criticism, Internet, journalism
Not content with having deleted my MySpace account last week, I’ve just deactivated my Facebook account. That doesn’t mean I’ve deleted it – it just means that it’s not currently active. Everything can be retrieved at a later stage, and I’ll still be friends with all the same people when/if I do return. It’s just [...]
Categories: 30 Days,Technology
Tagged: Facebook, Internet, Social media
