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I’ve been on the go quite a lot recently, and so the way I’ve been keeping the internet updated is through my mobile phone (that’s cellphone for non-UK readers).

And while I’ve been doing some consultancy for a couple of people who are putting their whole record label business into their laptops and shutting down their office entirely (really) — I don’t think we’re anywhere near at the point yet where we can then miniaturise that a step further and put the whole thing in our pockets (though the iPhone is a step in that direction).

I haven’t been updating this site in the meantime much either - but that said, there is a lot you can do from your phone. I know people who are uploading their gig photos directly to Flickr. I’m using Twitter to make mini-blog posts and I’m just starting to use Utterz to post audio comments up online.

It might not be blogging, per se, but it’s certainly getting your stuff up online with the kind of regularity and quality that you need if you’re dealing with the sort of organisation that has a fan base to negotiate.

Call it microblogging. Everyone else does.

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I’m involved in a start-up project for which I will need writers. It’s a commercial project — separate to this site — and I’m in charge of recruiting the bloggers.

This new site is about the music industries, and what’s going on in the world of music — a bit like this blog here, I suppose, but with a difference: This site will be about the globalisation of music.

You’ll be working with a team of really great people from all around the world and - at least at first - I’ll be acting as Managing Editor. I’ll not only be making sure that the content is of the highest standard, but also putting together something of a ‘manual’ and style guide for the team — and helping select an eventual replacement Managing Editor when that time comes.

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I’m amazed at my own capacity for stupidity.

Since the beginning of the year, I’ve been writing long blog posts, pretending that New Music Strategies is not a blog, but is instead something larger, or more weighty. And it’s given me the opportunity to work through some fundamentals in a more indepth way, but I have done in the place of writing something more blog-like.

Let me tell you why I did it, why I’m not stopping, but why I’m changing the approach a little.

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