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Jobs and other such mischief
Quite a few music PRs I know used to be bloggers or writers for music websites.
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saamFG
December 2011
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Wordpress or Blogger
I'm one of the few people who still use Blogger after 5+ years. For all the scaremongering - see above - we've had one takedown notice/unauthorised mp3 removal in that time. Which is actually a lot less than many blogs based on Wordpress. U…
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saamFG
December 2011
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YouTube Account - Music Promotion
I wish more blogs did video interviews or vlogs so we could get a better idea of the people behind them. I'm not sure it'd be the type of thing that would generate many new readers though.
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saamFG
May 2011
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Festival Accreditation
@SGTMT - definitely give it another go next year and keep applying to stuff this year too if there's things you'd like to review. I don't know whether festival passes are first come, first served but I guess it's always best to ap…
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saamFG
May 2011
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To MOG or not to MOG?
I'm not sure about the "MOG music network" but on the advertising front, I decided to take the plunge. There is an EIGHT step process now (...to uglify your site/uglify mine even further) involving splashing MOG stuff onto your site, w…
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saamFG
May 2011
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Festival Accreditation
Always worth going into what coverage you can offer - previews, reviews, interviews etc - as well as how many eyes will be seeing that coverage e.g unique visitors per month, Twitter followers, whoever. I've bided my time for festival passes - w…
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saamFG
May 2011
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Wordpress.com deleting music blogs?
So this discussion went off in a different direction than I expected...I'll throw my thoughts into the mix anyway. I don't really consider posting copyrighted mp3s for download (without permission) as anything other than illegal myself - al…
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saamFG
February 2011
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Numerical scores and reviews
That's an interesting discussion. I often see writing/reading negative reviews to be something of a waste of time but I thought Sean's point ("I think it's very hard to take positivity seriously, without the context of negativity&…
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saamFG
January 2011
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Contributors: Is less more?
We have maybe a dozen contributors but mainly for film and tv stuff. Most of them are my friends from way back. One of them is my friend's dad! I think it's good to have a few people on purely so you can discuss site-related stuff really.…
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saamFG
January 2011
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Blog critique
It looks good. I like the simplicity of it, I'm hopefully redesigning my site over the weekend and will be going for a less cluttered approach. I'm a big fan of featured posts sliders, although I think you'd maybe be better off with ar…
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saamFG
January 2011
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Numerical scores and reviews
It does seem more acceptable (maybe?) to review films with numbers or letters or whatever arbitrary system, which is a bit strange. But that works for us, as we review films as well. We've started using numerical scores anyway. I know this sound…
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saamFG
January 2011
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Numerical scores and reviews
I think we're going to give this numerical score malarkey a go and see how things pan out over a couple of months. Going to put the scores under a jump break (at the end of the review) so they won't be visible initially anyway. That's …
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saamFG
January 2011
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Best of the Year Lists
We did a top 20 albums of the year (collated between the writers), I went a bit dictatorial and chose my favourite album of the year (Jónsi - 'Go') as the blog's but anyway - http://www.fadedglamour.co.uk/2011/01/2010-our-top-20-album…
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saamFG
January 2011
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Numerical scores and reviews
Cheers. I get your viewpoint but I believe that the best music critics tap into emotions rather than try to exclude them. Your point about guilty pleasures is interesting but because music is so subjective, I reckon there's no problem with someo…
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saamFG
January 2011
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Numerical scores and reviews
@Give Quiche A Chance - "Some of my favourite tracks if I had to rate them might be a critics "4/10" and that's totally unfair on the artist" - could you expand on this statement? Surely if it's a favourite track of your…
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saamFG
January 2011
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SoundCloud Copyright Help
@Lee Knox Road/anyone interested - I didn't notice 4AD/The National's hosting of Bloodbuzz Ohio on their site, unless you mean the one that they asked your email address for. I'd find it a bit odd that they'd come after people who…
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saamFG
December 2010
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Numerical scores and reviews
Thanks for the comments, much appreciated. They typically echo the feelings/fears of my writers, who I've consulted about this. I'm also not convinced that using scores is the way forward but at the same time, I'm sceptical of how many…
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saamFG
December 2010
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SoundCloud Copyright Help
I had a problem with The National (/4AD?) when I posted a download of the 192kbps version of Bloodbuzz Ohio (which was freely downloadable on sites like Pitchfork etc) and a stream of another track off High Violet. I got a polite email from the Sound…
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saamFG
December 2010
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NAYBLOG!
UK blogs have been dropping a lot lately. Shattered Satellite died a couple of months back too - http://shatteredsatellite.blogspot.com/
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saamFG
December 2010
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Plagiarism Hall of Shame
He probably could have been sued but nothing much more happened, as far as I'm aware. I guess/hope the guy learnt an important lesson, especially as he continues to do video reviews.
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saamFG
November 2010
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Plagiarism Hall of Shame
@Merz - there are obviously other/bigger issues on the internet than plagiarism but once again, I don't see that as a valid reason not to point out that this is a big problem. It makes us (bloggers) all look bad. Maybe bitching about it will get…
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saamFG
November 2010
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Plagiarism Hall of Shame
What I tried to explain is that I don't have a problem with people using other people's work. Just that in doing so, you shouldn't try to pass it off as your own. Tumblr might not be the best place to get original thoughts on music (or…
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saamFG
November 2010
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Soundcloud embeds now picked up by the Hype Machine
No problemo. Keep up the good work with your blog.
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saamFG
November 2010
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Plagiarism Hall of Shame
Hi Merz, thanks for the kind words about my blog. However, I'm not sure why you've taken it so personally that I've chosen to highlight that blog for plagiarism. Nor do I understand your attempt to undermine my point by putting the wor…
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saamFG
November 2010
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Plagiarism Hall of Shame
Well. I guess there's a lot to discuss here. Will start with Tim and then move onto Merz. Tim - no I haven't contacted the author, I only found the blog the other day and you have to contact them through Tumblr, which seems like a kerfuf…
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saamFG
November 2010
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Plagiarism Hall of Shame
I was looking through the Tumblr music blog directory (because it's always nice to find ace new blogs) and discovered this one - http://thisisindierock.tumblr.com/ I read a few posts and started thinking that things sounded a bit familiar. Part…
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saamFG
November 2010
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Who is representing the UK?
Sounds pretty similar to London. I will endeavour to visit Dublin sometime to compare! And to get a proper pint of stout.
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saamFG
November 2010
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Soundcloud embeds now picked up by the Hype Machine
It's pretty simple. The way to go is Artist Name - Song Title. If you accidentally put the space in the wrong place or use something like a / instead of a hyphen then that can mess things up. Those Wild Party tracks weren't tagged with an a…
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saamFG
November 2010
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Who is representing the UK?
Hello there. I shall welcome you with a question, which is perhaps not that appropriate for this forum but anyway - is Dublin really as expensive as everyone says it is? Anyone else is welcome to chime in.
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saamFG
November 2010
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Organizing Your RSS Feeds + Favorite Feedreaders
Cheers Tim! Will check it out. UPDATE: So I checked it out and it does as you said but I'm not sure it's for me. Maybe I'll persevere and learn to love it.
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saamFG
November 2010
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