I have all this stuff I put together for a musician friend of mine who was looking for advice on how to sell music now that everything’s gone all digital and all. It’s going to waste sitting here on my computer. I feel I should share it with any musicians and artists that are looking for ways to make and distribute their music and still pay for food. I’ve done a lot of work with digital music and content, particularly in mobile, so a lot of this stuff is internet or mobile based. If you find it useful let me know, it’ll make me happy.
You can learn all you need to know about how to tell a good story as an artist from Lady Gaga. She’s got it cracked. Caitlin_Burns writes an excellent summary of what the Haus of Gaga is up to here.
Do you take time to reflect on the information that’s being thrown at you all of the time? I get lost in it sometimes and my reaction is to switch it all off and go for a walk on the beach. Sometimes I want to stay on the beach and leave it off. Then my phone beeps and I realise I’m still in the stream. I’m still getting the information thrown at me. People saying things, talking, sharing. All at a rapid pace. Its like an overflowing river of words and videos and bits and bytes just rushing by.
Some people don’t get involved. They might boast that they don’t even own a computer, or that they rarely use email. I get that. I do. I’m a bit like that myself sometimes.
I am dipping in and out of my twitter account in the last few days as if it’s cold water. Its just not an attractive proposition to tweet again. It was when I was living in the city and running things that i found twitter useful (last year)- I used twitter for organising, event management, reporting on an event, group texting…that sort of thing. I don’t need that at the moment- To be that out there. I’ve enjoyed being private this year. Then I read this article by Damien Mulley today.
Why? Why would I put myself into that expanding, chaotic mess? For what?
I’ll still give it a go. But as with all of these things I think you need a reason to use the Twitter tool. If I have to let a lot of people know what I’ve seen, or what to do (e.g. if I’m organising an event) or if a riot breaks out on Grafton St. and I’m there, I’ll tweet. If I make an album and want to keep my fans happy I’ll tweet. Otherwise…I don’t know. Biz Stone, founder of twitter, thinks people are not quite getting the point of twitter…I think this is probably more true in Ireland, where the city’s so bloody small you can just shout across the street at someone rather than go through the bother of tweeting everybody…
Many people have assumed that Twitter is just another social network, some kind of micro-blogging service, or both. It can be these things but primarily Twitter serves as a real-time information network powered by people around the world discovering what’s happening and sharing the news. The Iranian election was the most discussed issue on Twitter in the final year of a decade defined by advancements in information access.
