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Reader Mail: Do Teachers Really Get Three Months Off?

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Musicians who check out spinme.com for music business news may want to skip past this post — it’s about one of my extracurricular projects.
As always, I am so flattered and excited when I get to write for my friends at Yahoo! about careers. My editors asked me to look into some jobs that offer more [...]

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For two years running, the American Idol Songwriter competition has brought a HUGE traffic spike to the site.
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Steve Case, who once helped launch AOL, is starting up a PayPal competitor. He’s offering $25 for each new member that [...]

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What happened to subtle marketing?

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Are we so transparent about marketing these days that it’s okay for NBC to just slap a box on their pages that blatantly says, “CROSS PROMOTE?”

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House of Nanking, San Francisco, CA [Off Topic]

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Indulge me over the next few days, since I’m catching up from some time on the road and wanting to use this space to document a few of my experiences that have nothing at all to do with the music business.
Back in January, I enjoyed the chance to visit San Francisco for Macworld Expo. A [...]

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Thanks for all your thoughts on BurnLounge.

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CP, you’ve got some very interesting thoughts in the comments that you left in each of my previous posts about BurnLounge. I’m not sure that I need to rehash what I’ve written about here, or here, or here. I might remind you that, until I started getting personal attacks and threats from BurnLounge supporters, I [...]

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Orson Leaves Hollywood, Finds UK Success

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At some point, I seriously have to undertake a study of why it is — culturally — that audiences in the UK adore and embrace new music, while American audiences have to be dragged by the ankles to see a new band.
My latest case study: Orson. These guys are from Hollywood. They sound great. Think [...]

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The University of Pennsylvania is a Libra, and Does Not Want Kids

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You know the whole MySpace thing is out of hand when Ivy League universities have their own profiles.
Technorati Tags: MySpace, Penn

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Has your iPod Got C.R.A.P. in it?

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The Executive Editor of CNet explains why Digital Rights Management tools are full of C.R.A.P. Whenever I lead a seminar on growing your audience, folks either understand why unrestricted MP3s are great for the independent music business, or they’re freaking out about the eighty cents in revenue they feel they lost because some street team [...]

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Where the photos come from…

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(Because, four hours into the relaunch, someone has already asked…) I’m finally making this page more visually appealing than it’s been for a long time by tossing some random pictures from my personal Flickr stream throughout the pages. Expect to see pics of me, Lori, Audrey, Calvin, and everyone we meet on our day-to-day travels…

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Stay safe on the Web!

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Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself that, for a lot of musicians, the Web is a brand-new place. And with more and more indie musicians trying out services like eBay and Paypal to sell CDs and merch, a lot of them don’t know when to be cautious with their personal information. So this [...]

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