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Sep 16  09
Blogging Social Networking42 Comments

Update 15.49 GMT. A few hours after this post went live, at 15.36 GMT, September 16 2009, I received an aggressive cease and desist letter, scanned and emailed to me, from what appears to be the legitimate legal representative of EMI. The letter demands that I remove this blog post immediately. It could be fake. [...]

Meet the music industry’s new misinformation puppet and learn how to benefit from her tricks

Jun 12  09
Blogging Money3 Comments

The vast majority of my friends are musicians. That won’t come as a surprise to regular readers, particularly those who are aware of my career as a jazz musician. What might come as a surprise, however, is that many of my friends cannot believe that I am currently making a steady stream of income from [...]

The disconnection principle

Jun 03  09
Blogging19 Comments

The horizontal expansion of the Upstart Blogger empire continues with three new blogs. Blogs that I will pump traffic into but not author. This presents an opportunity for a small number of bloggers to hit the ground running in a unique way. Unique because they will, even though they are fresh, have an abundant supply [...]

Small number of ambitious bloggers required for long term profitable relationship

Mar 27  08
BloggingNo Comments

Upstart Blogger is slowly moving up the Technorati rankings and is currently sitting very happily at number 177 with an authority figure of 3298. This means that 3298 blogs are currently linking to Upstart Blogger in one form or another and that only 176 other blogs have more inbound links, according to Technorati. To say [...]

The rise and fall of the A-List bloggers

Nov 27  07
Blogging3 Comments

The music industry used to be such a simple place. Aspiring artists would hone their craft, attract the attention of a record label, get signed, release singles and albums, tour to promote everything, and then run happily to the bank. This system may have been simple but it was anything but fair. Money governed the [...]

Blogging has changed the music industry