Sadly my attempts to blog more frequently have been slightly inhibited by impending fatherhood, some pressing tasks at work, and what I suspect is a lurking chest infection. So I’m falling back on some quick thoughts and some quick links to share some half-baked ideas before the weekend.

• Firstly, the idea of a ‘music tax‘ is an abomination in so many, many ways, I probably don’t need to add to the outcry. But just for the record, it sounds like the dying cry of the dinosaurs before the meteor hits.

• Great inspirational post here, by Andrew Bruce Smith, on how you could start a PR company using Google and a credit card….
• I’ve been doing a lot of research into buzz/social media monitoring and Net Promoter Scores. And this is an interesting article on the topic.

And there’s probably a certain irony in the fact both @brendancooper and @jemimakiss either linked to their own, or someone else’s article about how Twitter shouldn’t be just a newswire/RSS feed, and for whatever reason missed/ignored/didn’t have time to answer my responses! I don’t blame them, as it can be hard to keep track of @ messages without an external service, but it made me laugh a bit. Especially as Jemima’s article is for The Guardian, which commits exactly the same crime: e.g. @guardiantech.

And now to home and either bed, blogging for Disposable Media, Rainbow Six, or a combination of the three. Tomorrow will be the first annual meeting in real life of some of the DM team, which’ll be quite interesting, as I’ve know them virtually for 18 months, produced about 5 issues with them, and now I’m going to have to buy them some beers as we decide how to make progress for the next 12 months…