It’s been brought to my attention that some of the submissions from people wishing to blog about the online music environment in different parts of the world have ended up being labelled as ’spam’ and some of these have been permanently deleted in error.
I apologise for this. Normally my spam filtering systems are pretty robust - but in this instance, they’ve identified a few false positives, and so there are at least three people that I know of who have met this fate.
I go through the Spam folder every few days or so with a quick scan before doing a complete dump. My quick scans have become really cursory because the spam filter has been so accurate until now. For some reason, if you say where you’re from (particularly if you’re in South American countries, African countries — or Canada) then you end up in the Spam folder.
Could you please do me a favour? Resend your application. And this time, please use the following subject line:
The New Music Biz
I’ve set up a filter to redirect anything with that title into a particular folder, so it can’t get misfiled or inadvertently deleted. I’m sorry for the hassle.
Erwin Blom, one of the experts at Lopend Vuur over the weekend, filmed an interview with me for his blog. Seemed appropriate to repost it here. He filmed it on a Flip camera - and I was pretty impressed. Might buy one of those…
Replace ‘mp3 blogs’ with ‘the internet’ and it still sounds daft.
The Hype Machine’s Anthony Volodkin did a bit of judicious editing on the ‘MP3 blogs are killing music‘ article in the Guardian blogs that I mentioned the other day. He replaced the words ‘mp3 blogs’ with ‘the internet’, and found that it pretty much continued to make just as much sense as a piece of writing — and just as little sense as a coherent, informed argument.
It makes for entertaining reading and really shows up the whole, laughable, ’sky is falling’ reactionary tone.
When will people learn that insisting things be the way they used to be is not a survival strategy? Adapting and overcoming, as one friend puts it, is the only way forward.
There’s a ‘Sky-Is-Falling’ article in the Guardian’s Blog about how mp3 bloggers are wiping out independent music. Here’s how to be part of the massacre.
A friend of mine sent me a link to Louis Pattison’s Thursday post on the Guardian Unlimited Arts blog. In it, Pattison claims that mp3 bloggers are killing the independent artists and businesses they claim to promote by giving their music away for free.
As my friend said, “Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…”
MP3 blogs, if you’ve missed the phenomenon, are regularly updated websites that talk about music and link to songs that their readers can download and listen to. Typically, the mp3 blog keeps itself to a particular subgenre of music, usually from the independent music end of the spectrum, rather than the more mainstream major label stuff.
"Music futurist", "Music thought leader", "Music business innovator". Whatever jargon you might want to use to describe Andrew you'll be using the word 'Music' and wanting to know what he has to say about the subject.
