Tag Archives: mp3

Spreading The Noise

By Parker Mason | Published: February 17, 2010
As regular readers of BlogCampaigning might know, I also write a music blog. That means aspiring artists, their labels and their PR people always email me new music. Some of it is good. Most of it isn’t. Nearly all of the pitches I get are amateurish at best, and nearly all of them are poorly targeted. However, [...]
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More thoughts on laptop DJing (in response to…)

By Adam Gorley | Published: October 29, 2009
Recently I wrote a post for BlogCampaigning on my experience transitioning from a vinyl DJ to a laptop DJ, which, from personal comments, appears to have been generally well received. But the only comment anyone actually posted on the blog was quite negative and passively critical. Initially, I wanted to tell the semi-anonymous commenter where [...]
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The DJ Edits My Blog

By Parker Mason | Published: October 17, 2009
Adam Gorley is BlogCampaigning’s resident copy-editor, but he also moonlights as a DJ. Here’s his take on using a laptop to spin tracks. Imagine this: you’re the DJ at a bar—the night’s entertainment. You’re using a laptop; you’ve got some software that you’ve tried out before and you like better than anything else you’ve tried for [...]
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A Round Table of Music-Blogging Knights

By Parker Mason | Published: October 13, 2009
Via The Hype Machine’s blog, I came across an interesting round-table discussion on The Morning News among a group of music bloggers. It’s interesting to hear their thoughts on the relationship music bloggers have with the Public Relations people in the record industry, and there is definitely some take-away for all PR pros there. Matthew Perpetua, who [...]
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Believe The Hype(Machine)

By Parker Mason | Published: October 24, 2007
First there was Napster. When that fell, we had Kazaa and a host of imitators. Pandora rose to prominence a few years ago, but seems to be plagued by the same copyright and licensing limitations that the other systems had. There are BitTorrents, but these seem to be only good for popular or newly released albums. The [...]
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