Five things I learned by NOT going to SXSWI

Photo by Liz Henry A whole bunch of local blogfriends went off to Austin, Texas this week to attend South By Southwest Interactive – which is kind of the tech end of what is probably the biggest music industry conference and festival on the planet. I’ve...

Music Think Tank

I’m really delighted to be able to announce the launch of a new group blog I’ve set up. It’s called Music Think Tank and it brings together some of my favourite thinkers in the area of online music. This is something I’ve been working on behind...

Phoning it in

Photo by Tobias Munich 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...

Join the team

Photo by Jared 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...

Not understanding the internet

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...