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Musical matters to cheer the soul…

October 28th, 2008 · Comments

I admit to feeling a bit down when I got home from a reasonably pleasant day in the office last night. Not only had my car self-destructed at the end of my road, causing me to have to push it for 5 minutes to my house at the end of a long day, but then [...]

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Behind the music…

October 14th, 2008 · Comments

Apologies as I’m a bit tired, and this may descend into rambling, but I wanted to keep the music debate going, especially after some interesting comments on my first post, on why ‘Recording companies are really screwed‘.
I appreciated the comment from Michael, who rightfully pointed out that the most common examples of bands using social [...]

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Is Clay Shirky the biggest celebrity of Web 2.0?

August 18th, 2008 · Comments

Because ‘The Rock Stars of Web 2.0‘ list on Ditto.net certainly seems to think so! (Disclaimer – I work for Bauer Media, who created Ditto, and help with some marketing…)
At the moment, Clay Shirky tops the list, followed by Doc Searls, Stowe Boyd and Wayne Sutton. The top female web 2.0 celebrity on the list [...]

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