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Best time to blog
I have found that work week afternoons between, say, 2:00 and 4:00 tend to bring the most traffic. That makes sense: work can suck sometimes and you need a little break. Then again, there are a lot of insomniacs who spent half the night reading mp3…
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nogenre
May 2010
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Bizarre and random ways that people find your site...
"cliff notes on movie chocolat" I have never seen (nor intend to see) Chocolat. Also, is Chocolat some kind of mind-bending Lynchian masterpiece of surreal filmmaking that requires Cliff's Notes?
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nogenre
May 2010
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Submissions Etiquette Question
This is all fantastic advice. Thanks again everyone. I hope to Christ that a PR firm doesn't find me because that sounds awful. I'm kinda with Tsuru on this: I have so much music that I have sought out myself (and yet to digest) that…
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nogenre
May 2010
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Submissions Etiquette Question
Thanks so much for the feedback, guys. I like the quick, "I'll give it a shot" response, and I have to fix that promise to listen to everything in the submissions page. And I learned my lesson with my private email pretty quickly . .…
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nogenre
May 2010
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Best Films of 2009
Picture: The Hurt Locker Director: Kathryn Bigelow Actor: George Clooney (though Jeremy Renner should win it) Actress: what a weak set of nominees . . . I don't know . . . Helen Mirren Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz!!! (Absolutely no deb…
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nogenre
March 2010
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YAYBLOG! 2.0
Toad, I hate to be nit-picky, but I think you misspelled "fame and fortune."
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nogenre
February 2010
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YAYBLOG! 2.0
I just got an email from Elbo.ws that made me an official blogger. This is very exciting: I'm now just a drop in a slightly less vast ocean!
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nogenre
February 2010
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Bizarre and random ways that people find your site...
"the whole town will have water if I lay this pipe"
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nogenre
February 2010
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google buzz
I'm with Sean R on this one. If Google is going to act like Ike Turner, then I'm going to act like Tina. That is to say, I'm going to show off my sexy legs elsewhere.
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nogenre
February 2010
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I've Been Deleted
Thank you, Tsuru. Of all the metaphors we've seen here, I think the candy analog is the most perfect. And thank you everyone for all the good advice about securing your shit. It's terrifying to think that this sweep is hitting the big …
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nogenre
February 2010
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Favorite Critics?
Oh man, Anthony Lane is unstoppable. I end up reading reviews of his for movies that I have NO intention of ever seeing. He's so bitchy and so smart. He also has a crystal clear idea of what he expects out of film. Peter Schjeldahl is also v…
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nogenre
February 2010
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Favorite Critics?
I'm glad you provided that quote SongbyToad. My brain nearly exploded when I read that exact sentence in my kitchen last week. I quoted it to my girlfriend and then moved onto my biweekly rant about Frere Jones. I think a lot of my anger at…
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nogenre
February 2010
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Favorite Critics?
Even if he only wrote that 33 1/3 on Celine Dion, Carl Wilson would be unbelievably important. That book is brilliant (not genius - an important distinction there) And Ewing is always fair. Any strong feelings on Sasha Frere Jones?
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nogenre
February 2010
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Petty petty pitchfork
Enjoy all that there is to enjoy about this one: http://blog.limewire.com/posts/35510-free-mp3-woodhands-disses-pitchfork-on-piss/ The Kanye sample is a particularly nice touch.
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nogenre
February 2010
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Petty petty pitchfork
If anything, discussions like these point out the necessarily codependent relationship between the blogs and Pitchfork. And as much as Pitchfork does play king-maker, it also on occasion provides a forum for the collective voice of the blogs. We nom…
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nogenre
January 2010
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Update your hipsterism
The boom-bust cycle for microgenres is as laughable as it is predicatable. But I'm with timnuoa on this one. The great bands that rise out of the microgenre ghetto aren't scholarhip kids. They're just the brightest and friendliest a…
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nogenre
January 2010
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Popular page sans remixes?
Tsuru, I was just looking at the link that Tart posted. They had some completely unsurprising demographic info on Pitchfork's readership. Sorry, it just looks like babbling without referring to any points in the previous conversation.
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nogenre
January 2010
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Popular page sans remixes?
What the shit does that even mean that P4K is #1 in Ghana? Also, the demographics info on site culled by Alexa are a) not surprising but b) nonetheless depressing. Young educated guys with no children promoting young education guys with no children…
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nogenre
January 2010
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NAYBLOG!
Jesus Christ, what a heartbreaking story. Thanks for posting that.
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nogenre
January 2010
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What's your day job?
I run the writing program at a small college in Boston.
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nogenre
January 2010
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