Aug 25, 2008
Tags: promotion, radio, Twitter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYP-wBaqQAI
The Twitter song I wrote last week has been getting some serious and much appreciated Twitter love and even a blog mention. And within a couple of days I got a message from the BBC (delivered by a mustachioed messenger on horseback) asking if I would give them an interview for the Pods and Blogs [...]
Aug 19, 2008
Tags: promotion, social media, songwriting, Twitter
Jonathan Coulton became an internet superstar by writing songs about computer games, programmers, Flickr, the internet and associated themes (mostly zombies). That’s what he cares about and that’s what his audience cares about. He’s being authentic and connecting with like minds. He doesn’t try to get the rest of the world to listen. There are [...]
Aug 10, 2008
Tags: blogging, ihatemornings.com, promotion, social media
The latest redesign of ihatemornings.com incorporated some fundamental changes under the hood, most obviously a switch from Textpattern (a trusted friend) to Wordpress (the popular kid in the class). Wordpress is fast becoming the standard blogging platform for music types (and many others), so the switch had to be made. I have built a dozen [...]
Aug 7, 2008
Tags: 50/90, promotion, songwriting
Good question. Not anyone you’ve heard of, that’s for sure. In fact, although I fully intend to get my songs covered by big names, to cowrite with rising stars and to make a fortune in royalties from random Japanese TV ads, for the moment I’m writing for me.
Who am I?
Andrea Stolpe wrote about authenticity of [...]