: “1. Disabling right-clicking JavaScript that disables right-clicking (to prevent people “stealing” your images) is wrong on so many levels. But it’s such a prevalent mistake that I feel the need…”
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: “Building on Chris Anderson’s article Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business I wanted to try to summarise some of the freeconomics models that have been tried out so far (if I’ve missed any, please…”
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: “Free distribution of digital content (music, books, visual art) is embraced by—and benefits—customers because it gives them access to a much wider range of content. This is because the restrictions…”
: “In every industry I’ve worked in, people have been obsessively concerned about underpricing their products. Underpricing, they say, devalues the products (because, as Chris Anderson pointed out recently,…”
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: “The 2006 blog post Five mistakes you’re probably making with your MySpace page (on Andrew Dubber’s blog New Music Strategies) applies equally to visual artists as it does to musicians. The five mistakes…”
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: “I wanted to take a short break from writing long articles to provide a quick list of links to various sites and online tools which can help artists with selling art online. So, in no particular order,…”
: “OK, read this blog post by Kevin Kelly first. It’s the first time (in my knowledge) that a seasoned commentator has turned their attention to how an individual artist/writer/musician can work in a long…”
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: “1. Start with a website OK, here’s the easy-to-follow three-point guide: If you are a competent web developer then create your own site. If you have a friend who is a competent web developer then…”
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: “When text on the web is free and abundant (even more so than music and images), why should a person pay for it? In other words, how can writers (and by “writers”, I’m including writers of fiction,…”
: “Umair Haque just asked “Is Etsy the next Google?” due, I think, to Etsy’s ability to build a community of artists & makers alongside (inside?) a community of art-, fashion-, and craft-lovers,…”
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: “Kentucky-based collage artist Randel Plowman launched a new project back in March 2006. The project—called A Collage A Day—was ambitious to say the least. He committed himself to producing a new 4″…”
: “I spent my last post looking at Publishers, ebooks and what successful strategies could be used to make money. I want to return to that briefly, as I’ve just read in the Sunday Times that two publishers…”
: “With Chris Anderson's next book Free due to be previewed on the front cover of Wired magazine next week, there’s a lot of chatter about how the way to make money in the future is to give stuff away.…”
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: “I’m trying to alternate theory with practical examples, and it’s time for a practical example again, this time from my own practice in the world of visual art. If you’re in the business of creating…”
: “For those of you who haven’t come into contact with it before, OpenID is an open-source single-login that works on many websites. In their own words “OpenID eliminates the need for multiple usernames…”
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: “Tomorrow MySpace opens up its platform to developers. While MySpace have inferred that they’ve learnt from Facebook’s mistakes, in that their platform will be more resilient to spamming issues, I still…”
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: “There’s already been a lot of comment about Microsoft’s recent hostile takeover bid for Yahoo (not least from Google itself). Google’s objections are based around arguments against Microsoft’s…”
: “There’s been a lot of analysis about Radiohead‘s “pay what you think it’s worth” new album digital release at the tail end of last year. Much of the comment was positive – which I’m generally…”
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: “OK, well I’ve spent some time reviewing this new specification. It’s a mixture of a couple of useful new qualifiers to the old robots.txt standard and a lot of anally-retentive control-freakery written…”
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