Tim

Best Commenting System
Thanks! @Jason - do you really see a lot of referral traffic from Facebook with the comments? Is there some way to test whether the traffic is from that or just general Facebook sharing?

Comment by Tim June 2012 permalink
Best Commenting System
@danceyrselfclean which plugin are you talking about?

Comment by Tim June 2012 permalink
Headway or Pagelines
They don't "tighten" anything as far as I know - are they not just drag and drop theme development frameworks?

Comment by Tim May 2012 permalink
iAlbums
It seems I may have been a little quick to judge iAlbums, I just had a message from a member of their team explaining that they only pull in excerpts of blog posts with links to see the whole post on the actual blog through the in-app browser. Here&#…

Comment by Tim May 2012 permalink
iAlbums
Music Robot is a blog collective of sorts... you'll see more soon :) iAlbums is something I'm not sure about to be honest. The idea seems to be that it is a music app that pulls in data about a band when you are playing a song by them. This…

Comment by Tim May 2012 permalink
Advertisements: Useful or Distraction
Much better than I have seen with MOG, AdSense, or ValueClick :) Not sure how much I should be sharing publicly though - email me if you want

Comment by Tim May 2012 permalink
Advertisements: Useful or Distraction
I don't think I can even think of 10 blogs in the traditional sense. We've just started working with SAY Media for our ads btw, and their rates are excellent :)

Comment by Tim May 2012 permalink
Advertisements: Useful or Distraction
The costs of being a blogger has actually fallen a fair bit over the years - or at least that's my experience. I would say the decision over ads is a personal one, with the amount of traffic you're getting being one factor to look at. If yo…

Comment by Tim April 2012 permalink
Why do PR reps ask for coverage links?
Yeah I always think of it as a quid pro quo for access to the new music - although we only tend to cover music we like and so PRs, labels, bands, etc like our coverage. That review isn't really negative though, whoever the PR is - it sounds li…

Comment by Tim April 2012 permalink
Multi-blog Hangover mixtape
I've pretty much just been sticking on the MMoths and Tourist debut EPs when I've been hungover recently. Lovely and soothing.

Comment by Tim March 2012 permalink
YAYBLOG! 2.0
haha nice work!

Comment by Tim March 2012 permalink
Apple Vs. Google: Oh, It's On!
Haha - that's a friend of mine and voicing over in the UK Siri parody. Pretty much true though

Comment by Tim March 2012 permalink
Why Economies Of Scale Don't Matter In The Media Anymore
True, but that piece was more about the media in general than specific to music. Also, whilst for music enthusiasts I completely agree you still need something physical - but I wonder how many physical sales there were on the latest JLS single for ex…

Comment by Tim March 2012 permalink
Bluehost or Dreamhost
I'm personally with InnoHosting and very happy, but they are a little more expensive than the two you name. Dreamhost are getting a bit of a bad reputation for downtime from other bloggers recently, but I have no idea how widespread that is - it…

Comment by Tim March 2012 permalink
Why Economies Of Scale Don't Matter In The Media Anymore
I believe so, yeah - I would love to have access to sale stats to back that up, but I don't sadly. A Pitchfork review is known to make or break indie records though and I haven;t herad that about NME for a good while.

Comment by Tim February 2012 permalink
UK Law Enforcement Starts Seizing Music Blogs
Yup.

Comment by Tim February 2012 permalink
UK Law Enforcement Starts Seizing Music Blogs
I agree sites like this are a dime a dozen, but I don't think they add anything to the digital music discourse apart from giving people easy access to download illegal mp3s so I won;t shed a tear if this starts a crack-down.The site was getting …

Comment by Tim February 2012 permalink
UK Law Enforcement Starts Seizing Music Blogs
As much as I usually take a stand against take-downs, this one did seem to be sharing an awful lot of singles of top40 artists - something which has always got blogs in trouble and for good reason. These artists don;t need the promotion of blogs and …

Comment by Tim February 2012 permalink
Redirect / Self hosting
Hi Andy, Both Elbo.ws and HypeM use your RSS feed, so if you use FeedBurner and change your feed there, then nothing will need to be changed on their ends. If, however, you just used the standard blog.wordpress.com/feed/ for your RSS then yes you…

Comment by Tim February 2012 permalink
The price of gigs
Yeah it's hard and high inflation over the last couple of years doesn't help - whilst people still think that £5/6 is the right price for a gig as it was three years ago, in reality £7/8 probably is more of a reality. The problem is - the…

Comment by Tim February 2012 permalink
Copyright Abuse is bad
So the ACTA negotiations and "manoeuvres" have been so completely corrupt in the EU that the their own rapporteur for ACTA has resigned over the ordeal. Another great example of our politicians siding with the citizens then...http://www.tec…

Comment by Tim January 2012 permalink
Copyright Abuse is bad
What's really odd about this case is the defence didn't raise the Creation Records 1997 case as precedent... In 1997 The Sun newspaper pretty much recreated (almost identically) the front cover of the latest Oasis album cover (the one with …

Comment by Tim January 2012 permalink
The end of file lockers?
Hahah. It appears MediaFire and Rapidshare are here to say - both companies have come out and aligned their services with Dropbox/Box.net/SkyDrive and said they have not built their businesses on piracy (which is debatable to be honest, but still).

Comment by Tim January 2012 permalink
The end of file lockers?
The reason I made this topic open, is because I'm talking about legal (or pretty much legal) uses of the services. I have no doubt the pirate community will adapt and reform like they always do - but for those using the file sharing services to …

Comment by Tim January 2012 permalink
SOPA
@SGTMT Will SOPA close UK music blogs to the US? It could.All the entertainment companies have to do is allege that your site commits piracy and they can get your site blocked to US users under SOPA. Just like how it tends not to be worthwhile to hos…

Comment by Tim January 2012 permalink
Apple Vs. Google: Oh, It's On!
ZTE already sells more smartphones than apple...

Comment by Tim January 2012 permalink
EMI in auto destruct mode
This pretty much takes the piss:http://www.techfruit.com/2012/01/12/emi-sues-irish-government-over-lack-of-anti-piracy-measures/ No idea what they think they'll gain from this, but still...

Comment by Tim January 2012 permalink
Rescrubbed the blog
Thanks dude. Are you talking about the text links? Yeah they are through Text-Link-Ads. They make me ~$40-$50 bucks a month, so nothing to write home about, but it all adds up.One word of warning about them though - Google frowns upon selling text l…

Comment by Tim January 2012 permalink
Rescrubbed the blog
Looks nice and clean - I like it!

Comment by Tim January 2012 permalink
YAYBLOG! 2.0
Nah I've not been able to dates-wise - it was good fun though. I *may* be doing something more regular at a new venue opening up very soon in Camden though...We'll see.

Comment by Tim January 2012 permalink

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