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Being a professional indie musician isn’t for everyone: Lessons from Charles Ives and Shellac

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 16 December, 2010

If you’re trying to make even a partial living as an indie musician you’re a businessperson, and the news gets worse… You’re a small business. That’s a tough row to hoe as it’s unlikely you’ll have much support. You’re going to have to fill lots of roles all by yourself, publicist, customer relations, sales, accounts and legal for starters. […]

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Hemmed in by signposts: Metaphors limit the scope of social media innovation

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 24 August, 2010

Metaphors are a crucial part of how we relate to the digital world. They are crucial in one sense as the low-level languages that computers use are incomprehensible to humans. All our spangly, shiny Powerpoint presentations and music libraries are streams of hexidecimal or binary digits to our processors and disk drives. Unless you’re very special […]

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Give Twitter a go: It’s quite good really

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 19 August, 2010

From within the bubble of Twitter enthusiasm the worth of the platform seems self-evident, but there are people out there who aren’t convinced, don’t see the point of the medium and aren’t sure how to approach it. Twitter is a powerful tool and that power is the flexibility contained within the broadcast of 140 characters. The premise […]

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