If you’ve seen any concert festival posters over the past few years, you’ll notice that the bigger the band is, the bigger the font is. As I was thumbing through some of my reading yesterday, I saw an article on “Top 10 font size shockers from the Coachella 2015 lineup.” Some bands were
The CIO Brain And Music… Not As Strange As It Sounds
For those of you that attend the ILTA conferences, you may be aware of the (in)famous band called Legal Bytes. Legal Bytes is the world’s only band made up entirely of current and former Chief Information Officers from law firms. At this year’s ILTA conference, Legal Bytes will actually be releasing a 12-song CD of
Combining Facebook Interests to Feedly or Outlook
I am not ashamed to admit it that I am a fan of Facebook. I post pictures when I’m on the road (much to my wife’s chagrin) and it has been the way to keep up with what my family is doing, as we don’t seem to talk on the phone very much. One of
Remember when you created that online magazine with mixed medias? Yeah, don't do that again!
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At first it was really cool. Then it got really, really bad. Eventually, I had to just shut down the browser to escape the music and sensory overload!! A YouTube replay of Miley Cyrus at the VMAs?? No… I could actually sit through that. I’m talking about The Festival Issue
Bringing Out the Extrovert Within the Introvert… Or Vice-Versa
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In the same conversation that Toby and I had regarding email created a way for lawyers to not talk with their clients, we also discussed how people you’ve ‘met’ via social media sometimes don’t match up to their personalities when you meed them in person. Someone that may be very extroverted on
StageIt: Musicians Perform Live (Online) For Your Tips
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Evan Lowenstein noticed that the music industry had changed, and for musicians, that wasn’t a good thing. “It caused our industry to go from hundreds of artists making millions of dollars, to millions of artists making hundreds of dollars.” In fact, for a solo artist to just make
The Tragedy of the Library, Information and Music Commons
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There is a theme that I hear from interviews of today’s struggling musicians, “I really wish we had been making music in the 90’s.” The idea behind that, although it might be like that Utopian 1950’s United States that never really existed, is that there was a time when people bought music, record
Leah White Sings about Houston's Julia Ideson Library
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I was hopping from venue to venue at the Houston Press Music Awards last weekend, when I popped in on Leah White & The Magic Mirrors‘ show at Pete’s Dueling Piano Bar to listen to Leah’s songs about all things Houston. About three songs into her set, Leah calls out to
TuneIn Radio – Take Your Local Radio With You This Summer
I enjoy checking out new music apps for my mobile devices, and this week I came across one that really appealed to me in a number of ways. TuneIn Radio is an app that works on iOS, Android, Windows, BlackBerry, and even Palm devices, and offers over 60,000 over the air and Internet radio stations
Grooveshark’s Beluga – Big Data Analytics on the Fans that Listen to Music
If you have a service that gets 20 million unique users a month, and you have personal information on those users, what could you do with it? For the staffers at music streaming site, Grooveshark, the answer was to build a free tool that shows the demographics, culture and lifestyles, habits, and product preferences