25 June 2008

Most folks understand the implications of providing their blog posts with full text (you’re very likely going to get your content shared around and read outside the confines of your website). It’s going to get re-purposed and re-used in a number of ways you never intended or even imagined. Some of it will be for good, and some of it will be for evil. The solution is simple. Roll with the punches.
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27 May 2008

There is no evidence *at all* that free music on the Internet is an effective (i.e. successful career building) marketing tool. There have been no blockbuster successes that have come from, for example Garageband availability. I don’t think you could even count more than a handful – if that – Internet-based artists making a living from music. I believe several of the American Idol contestants have been on indie music Internet sites, but you cannot attribute their success to the Internet.
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