Happy birthday to my wonderful sister Anne.
Lifehack has 18 tricks to make a habit stick. If you want to go the other direction, The Thinking Blog has 8 easy steps to shrink your brain.
Many thanks to Rick for including me in his top 10 blogs. Once my Swivel Feeds experiment is over, I’m going to do some pruning myself. I am in the process of concluding that it’s impossible to read more than maybe 100 blogs in any efficient and rewarding way. More on this later.
Now Netflix is drinking the social networking kool-aid. The last thing Netflix needs is to dilute its focus on a momentum play that’s about 12 months too late.
Mike has a cool and funny family music post. Musically, I have become my parents to my kids. They play their music for me. I play mine for them. They think most of mine is boring. I think most of theirs is associated with media creations who couldn’t play an instrument if their lives depended on it. I remember how square I thought my mom was because she didn’t appreciate the Grateful Dead or the Allman Brothers. Or even Howlin’ Wolf. I guess I am the new generation of square.
Jeff Balke has a great post about making it on your own in the music business. I get asked often by new or aspiring musicians how to “make it” in the business. I don’t have the secret formula, but I firmly believe you start by playing as many gigs as possible, create a buzz and let the business find you. I see a lot of young musicians trying to skip the playing part and jump straight to the selling records part. That takes a lot of marketing effort, which requires a lot of money to sustain. As Jeff describes, getting and playing gigs is hard work. But your odds are better playing open mike nights than they are trying to become the next Hannah Montana.
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