What better place to learn about social media best practices than from social media? Most of what I know about the subject I learned from my Delicious network and Twitter feed. I collect the most noteworthy items under my Socialmedia tag on Delicious.
Filed in social media, web
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Also tagged blogging, copywriting, facebook, marketing, networks, pr, self promotion, social media, social networks, twitter
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
If you want to get your web page noticed but don’t want to spend a lot of money on advertising, your best bet is search engine optimization, or SEO. As of this writing, that mostly means understanding how Google ranks search hits, and adapting your web presence accordingly. Historically, search engine results were ranked based [...]
Sample-based music isn’t stealing. It’s valuable and important. It shows the way toward a future for recorded music that’s more in continuity with music’s past. Recordings are cool and everything, but they encourage passivity. If I buy a recording, I can listen to it or dance to it, both fine activities, but what if I [...]
Filed in music, software
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Also tagged amazing grace, blues, book, copyright, folk, google, improvisation, jazz, kanye west, learning, memes, music, music theory, opensource, remixes, sampling, transcribing
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Whenever somebody comes to me and wants a web site, I suggest that I set them up with a blog instead. Even better, I suggest they start using a variety of blogs and blog-like platforms. If you have a web presence of any kind for any reason, you need to be able to update it [...]
Filed in social media, web
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Also tagged blogger, blogging, delicious, facebook, flickr, friendfeed, google, iphone, merlin mann, posterous, pr, seo, social media, spam, tagging, tumblr, twitter, wordpress, writing
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Over the weekend we stayed with Anna’s sister Joanna, her husband Chris and their adorable new baby Lucas. Chris and I spent some of the time talking about electronic music and the internet. He’s a social media professional and a music fan but not a musician, and it was cool to hear his perspective on [...]
Filed in music, software, web
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Also tagged book, daft punk, delicious, design, drum machines, electronica, fun, interface, inudge, minimalism, multitracking, reason, remixes, sequencing, social media, tenori-on, toys, visualization, web browser
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As part of the research for my book, I’ve been making sample maps, diagrams showing what songs include samples of what other songs. I’m a big sample geek. I like knowing where my music comes from the same way I like knowing where my food comes from. This map shows many, probably not nearly all, [...]
Filed in autobio, music, web
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Also tagged anthro, blogs, book, copyright, digg, flickr, hip-hop, jackson 5, memes, michael jackson, music, politics, pop, race, remixes, sample maps, sampling, social media, soul makossa, twitter
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Friday, February 13, 2009
So the other night my friend Jesse played at the Shorty Awards with his Tin Pan Blues Band. Because it was an awards ceremony dedicated to the best of Twitter, they were projecting people’s tweets about the event itself onto a screen in real time. Some of those tweets were comments about the band. The [...]
Filed in music, web
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Also tagged book, hip-hop, improvisation, interface, iphone, jazz, music, social media, stone age, twitter
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Saturday, January 10, 2009
When you delve behind the scenes with the internet, you immediately come face-to-face with a lot of threatening computer gibberish. The most menacing codes are the ones that stand for colors, random-seeming strings of letters and numbers like #99CC66 or #4F102A. Sometimes you see colors described verbally: “black”, “white”, “blue”, etc. That’s fine for simple [...]
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Ethanhein.com has had 465,689 hits so far, mostly distributed among my blogs and mp3 pages. A single blog post about Family Guy generates a disproportionately large percentage of that traffic. October 2008 represents a typical month, with 40,611 hits total. That’s around 1,310 a day, 54 an hour. A large percentage of those are from [...]
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
I love everything about Flickr except its name. First of all, creative misspelling is so five minutes ago. Second of all, the word ‘flicker’ has no conceptual connection to a photo-sharing social network that I can think of, except, I guess, in the very literal sense that a computer image flickers thirty times a second [...]
Filed in web
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Also tagged computer evolution, database, design, flickr, images, interface, juxtaposition, memes, miyamoto, outlining, social networks, video games, visualization, writing
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