The Tumblr music scene

Earlier today Fred wrote about MySpace music and how many artists are now blogging and taking control over their websites. As a timely example, here is Ben Kweller’s tweet from just a few moments ago. i wanna meet a professional web programmer! im talkin’ hardcore back-end e-commerce, user login, databasing shit. not just css/html. hit me! […]

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reblogged via newspeedwayboogie: Faces (via NewmRadio) This is why I love Tumblr. The music scene here is so alive. I post a song by Faces this morning. Then Andy reblogs that song with his own thoughts. Then Daryn links to my post and follows up with another excellent Faces song. Then Andy reblogs that post […]

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Random Thoughts

I don’t have a particular topic to share but a bunch of random things in my head so allow me to just jot them down in no particular order: 1. We saw The Dark Knight Last night. I really really liked it but my expectations were so high that I was let down. But only […]

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Reblog vs comments

I’ve been thinking a lot about blog comments lately. Here’s a recent thing to consider that happens all the time on Tumblr. My post about the Steve Jobs health issue from last night doesn’t have any comments yet (update: there are now several comments but the point still stands). Yet it has been reblogged 5 […]

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Reblog link love

There are two great posts on Techmeme right now about whether links are important or not. I agree with Stan Schroeder’s Mashable post when he says: “So, why do we still do it? Well, links are still the glue of the Internet. Without links, there’s no context: Every week or so, I goto technorati and […]

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Microsoft may be using the crocodile strategy. Rather than try to eat its prey while it’s warm and tough, it’s dragging it down to the bottom of the river, sticking it under a rock and eating it later. Todd Dagres, via Failed Yahoo Talks Leave Google on Top – washingtonpost.com (via jasonwoodmansee). After reading the […]

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