by Dubber | Aug 24, 2008 | Media
So you’re putting your music online. You’re going to make it available to people, and now you have to make a decision about what file format you’re going to use, what encoding rate, and what sort of file size you’re going to subject your...
by Dubber | Jul 17, 2008 | Blogging, Media, Question, Strategy
Blogging: such hard work Blog inertia is a real problem for a lot of people. You start writing and updating on a regular basis, but even though you understand the importance and benefits of the practice for your music business, sooner or later you just kind of run out...
by Dubber | Jun 28, 2008 | Links, Media
I did an interview by email for a website called Content Agenda. Some really great questions too. I decided in advance that my answers should, for once, be succinct and to the point rather than try and go into too much depth and end up writing entire essays on each...
by Dubber | May 12, 2008 | Media, Question
I’ve had this question in a number of forms. The most common one is the artist who doesn’t really sell many CDs through retail, but every time they perform live, they go through 20, 50 or even 100 CDs over the merchandise table. The question is – if...
by Dubber | Apr 12, 2008 | Blogging, Media, Seminar
We’ll return to our regularly scheduled series of ‘questions I keep getting asked about music online’ after the weekend. In the meantime, I just wanted to follow up this thread of video services. I tried all the ones that were suggested to me –...
by Dubber | Mar 23, 2008 | Links, Media
You may have encountered talk online about Billy Bragg complaining that musicians aren’t getting money from the $850m Bebo payday. If so, the talk you’ve most likely encountered is that of TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington, who pretty much denounces...