Some Useful Info Of General Interest...

[mojobone]

If you sell MP3s via major online retailers, you should probably see this:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/06/how-di ... cloud-drm/

[gongchime]

Thats awesome info. Clears things right up.

[gongchime]

I see the article puts U2 and Coldplay in the same category. I just got a new laptop that comes with a lot of music and there's a whole album of Coldplay's. I listened to 5 or 6 tune s and they're just imitating U2 only without the emotional depth. Sucky band.

[cmk]

Thanks for your generosity in sharing all of this info.

[grandsoul]

If you want to make it in this business, nothing is general




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[mojobone]

Thanks for your generosity in sharing all of this info.

You're welcome. I get so much good and useful info from this site, I wanna pay it forward. Some people surf the 'net; I'm trying to learn to swim. (cuz I don't wanna jes' skim the surface, going where the waves take me; I wanna be fully immersed and moving in a direction I choose, free to dive deep with no board or tether, heh, if that's not stretching a metaphor)

I've customized my browser to bring me stuff that matters; I have an RSS Feed reader built into my main browser (Flock; it's optimized for news and social networking, with lots of functions that are add-ons in other browsers-I use Chrome for uploading content, though; it handles video better) It's like bookmarking, but better; when I find a site that consistently provides useful info I can't get elsewhere, I just click the little orange RSS button, then drag the subscribe button into a Feeds folder; there are different folders for separate categories of info, so it it kinda organizes itself, a godsend for someone as comfortable with chaos as I.

I hope everybody will feel free to discuss these links and add their own; I bet we can leverage the awesome power of our networked community into something even...awesomer. Everybody browses a little differently, and in different places, and I discovered most of these sources through links provided by you-fellow forum posters, and I've reached a point where I find at least one really good and useful article or blog post or video a day, and am wasting less and less time on searches and typing, and it's so easy to share, nearly as easy as clicking a link to click-drag and highlight a link, ctrl+C, to copy it to the clipboard, ctrl+V to paste it into a forum post, and it feels so good to express gratitude for the education I'm getting in this way. (pretty elementary stuff, I know, most five year olds can do it faster than most folks my age) I mention all this because using the web didn't come naturally to me at first, and teaching my gal to Facebook has kinda brought it to my attention that this stuff isn't always immediately obvious to newcomers, heh.

[mojobone]

Today's Wall Street Journal has an article on the Black Eyed Peas in the "Weekend Journal" section. It's a really eye-opening read, I recommend it highly.
Ott

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 21658.html

[mojobone]

This will probably seem terribly obvious to the 'digital natives' among us, but there are some interesting insights here:

http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/04/ ... +(hypebot)

[mojobone]

How to gig with a cheap Windows laptop and a bunch of freeware synths:

http://keyboardmag.com/article/windows- ... 010/110693

The 25 top free VST instruments is a PDF file, but not too huge for dialup users.

[grandsoul]

How to gig with a cheap Windows laptop and a bunch of freeware synths:

http://keyboardmag.com/article/windows- ... 010/110693

The 25 top free VST instruments is a PDF file, but not too huge for dialup users.

Had to get a Mac.

The PC (Vista ) almost set the sheets on my bed on fire .

Not to mention I couldn't load anything into it.


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