Crowd-Sourced Artistic Patronage
: “There’s an interesting discussion going on at TechDirt about the evolving business model being used by musician Amanda Palmer. One commenter, Kevin Stapp, sums it up perfectly: The more I hear about…”
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Software for Artists for Free
: “Software costs money. Actually that’s not true – there’s plenty of free software out there for artists, and the ones detailed below are just as good as the expensive versions. Browsers Web browsers…”
What Amazon needs to do next
: “It all started when Amazon removed the “Sales Rank” from all gay & lesbian books (apart from homophobic books which now appear at the top of an Amazon search for “Homosexuality”). The…”
Twitter as an essential tool for artists
: “Twitter is the rising star of social media at the moment, and is a surprisingly good tool for artists. From US President Barack Obama’s use of Twitter throughout his election campaign to the UK comedian…”
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Artists Website Software – Feb 2009 Update
: “I thought it was about time to give you all an update on the free open-source Artists Website Software I’m currently working on. I’ve got a very basic skeleton completed so far, but the alpha version…”
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Artists Website Software – December Update
: “In my last post I talked about the Artists Website Software I was planning. It’s been a busy few months (both with my day-job and with moving house) but I have made some progress, and I hope to have…”
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Artist's Website Software
: “My website has grown organically over 12 years, but the code is looking very messy and unmanageable, so I’m thinking of recoding it from scratch (while adding a lot of improvements). I decided that…”
Microsites for arts projects (revisited)
: “Following up from my “Microsites for Arts Projects” post in August, I noticed that Maki at DoshDosh had (quite separately) published a similar article in September entitled “How ‘Mini-Funnel’…”
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HTML Email Newsletters for Artists
: “I’m going to concentrate on HTML email design here rather than best practice for sending your emails or building your email list. Suffice to say that you should never email someone without their clear…”
More on Publishing Art Books on Lulu
: “Another follow-up post, this time following up my post on Self-publishing your art books on Lulu. From http://www.lulu.com/content/2709735: “Dear Lulu” is a test book researched and produced by graphic…”
Using Facebook to promote your artwork (2)
: “In my earlier post on using Facebook to promote your artwork I promised an update on how it was going. So here’s the first update. Rather than doing a massive campaign of promotion for my Facebook page,…”
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Microsites for arts projects
: “In my job at a publishing company we often have to create special one-off mini-websites for individual books, book series or for the books by a particular author. These are in addition to the book’s…”
Less Theory, More Practice
: “Every week I seem to read some nonsense spouted by ill-informed journalists regurgitating a press release from the music industry. This week it was Dan Sabbagh in The Times condemning “…the traditional…”
Self-publishing your art books on Lulu
: “Lauren Simonutti is a Baltimore-based artist/photographer. Having been told that her work didn’t “fit in” in the US (and having more positive experiences in European and Australian markets), she…”
Using Facebook to promote your artwork
: “Facebook Pages are a recent addition to Facebook, and they’re currently the best way for an artist to promote their artwork on Facebook (better than Facebook Groups, which are an earlier addition). If…”
Open planning my new artwork and freeconomics
: “Those of you that venture beyond this blog to other parts of this website will probably know I’m currently working on a limited edition series of handmade artists books. In this post I want to show…”
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Freeconomics and McFly
: “Freeconomics took another step into the mainstream this week, as Multiplatinum-selling pop group McFly announced they would be giving away their new CD with The Mail On Sunday on July 20th. Now, in terms…”
A basic strategy for music in 5 steps
: “I was chatting to a good friend of mine yesterday about business strategies for her music. She’s not planning on chart-topping super-stardom, she just wants to have a plan for getting her music…”
Robots Exclusion Protocol leaves ACAP dead in the water
: “In my first post on this blog I wrote (critically) about ACAP – a thoroughly wrong-headed attempt by some publishers to enforce stringent limitations on the way search engines index the content that…”
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Social Networks – Pure and Applied
: “I’ve written about social networks and their uses before, but I wanted to expand on some of my original thoughts. So, let me start with a quote from my previous article stating my position: I’m sure…”