Photo by brooklyn Today’s idea is about shopping for clothes at thrift stores or charity shops. There’s some great stuff out there, if you know where to look and how to look – and as long as they’ve got something in your size, you can grab a real bargain, construct a unique look that suits [...]
Tag Archives: Internet
30 days of ideas – 23: WordPress Bandcampify template 6
Like this, but a blog A disclaimer about today’s idea: I’m on the board of advisors for Bandcamp, and I think it’s bloody brilliant. If you make music, and you’re not using it – you should get onto that. Actually, today’s idea is not for Bandcamp, as it might seem – but for WordPress. What [...]
30 days of ideas – 15: Newspaper download codes 8
Photo by mfophotos Without wanting to tread on the toes of any of my colleagues – notably Paul Bradshaw, who is a world-beating expert on all things online journalism – I had a thought today about the crossover between newspapers and the internet. Don’t think of this so much as an “idea” like the other [...]
Tagged: Internet, journalism, media, newspapers
Like hairdryers for the internet 2
Photo by Ethan Hein Every now and then I notice a change in the way I use the internet. Generally speaking, I’ll make adjustments as I go – trying and abandoning new services, sometimes making different things part of my everyday life, and occasionally radically transforming my workflow (always for the better, as it happens). [...]
Categories: Technology
Of cats and monsters 3
Years ago, I put a couple of radio shows I had produced back when I was a radio producer up on the internet. One of them, Ashley’s Worlds, was a kids’ ‘cartoon for radio’, in which all the characters were cats. The other, Claybourne was a sort of sci-fi-soap-opera-thriller-adventure in which – well, lots of [...]
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Tagged: ashley, claybourne, Internet, Radio
New look on the blog 3
I started a new project this week. A book, actually. And I set up a website for it. It’s called Deleting Music. I was looking around for a really good WordPress template to use, and I found this one. It’s called P2. This video explains what’s so good about it, and you’ll probably get why [...]
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Update your feeds 0
Due to some changes at Feedburner recently, a lot of people who receive my updates to this blog via email or in their reader, rather than at the http://andrewdubber.com website will automatically stop getting them. That’s probably you. If you’d like to continue to receive my blog posts, or email updates (depending on how you [...]
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Tagged: Internet
Unpopular in Helsinki 6
River of ice outside the hotel I’ve spent the last few days in Helsinki at a music industry conference called Is This It. Since I’m not that great at mingling (or at least, slow to start), I brought my laptop down to the first networking breakfast session on Friday. Coffee and email, while people settled [...]
Twitter + Spotify = Twitify 10
Sometimes things happen fast on the internet. About an hour or so ago, I asked people on Twitter to send a link to a Spotify playlist consisting of three songs of their choice under three minutes duration. A dozen people who use both Twitter and Spotify humoured me and sent me their short lists. I [...]
Categories: Music
The New Zealand solution 8
That’s Caitlin Smith. We’re coming to each other’s rescue. I need to get to New Zealand, and she needs help with her new album. Her last album was gorgeous – her jazz roots were plainly there – but all the same, these were contemporary, strong and accessible popular songs. Really great record with some of [...]
Categories: Music,New Zealand
Tagged: Internet, Music, New Zealand