Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Incoming press release everyone duck… “If a foreclosed home in Detroit can be purchased for $1 (as I recently read in the newspaper) I have to wonder how much a night at a Rogue Motel would cost…? And while I can’t answer that question without doing some serious research with the band, I can promise [...]
Tags: free, Music, Portland, PR2.0, research, Review, Rock, Rogue Motel || 9 Comments »
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
The back cover of the Damaged Goods EP
On June 18 I spent an afternoon with the University of Oregon’s philosophy department class presenting a talk on Gang of Four and our place in the “creative, potentially transformative popular music pantheon.” It was fun. As a band our achievements are well known, mainly in critical circles, [...]
Tags: Damaged Goods EP, Discussion, download, England, Free MP3, Gang of Four, Live, Manchester, Music, philosophy, research, Vinyl || 19 Comments »
Friday, June 13th, 2008
Portland band, Hockey, in a social networking environment.
I have some homework for those of you who like to read. Having been on many conference panels in my time, attempting to inform musicians and others about the value of using the Internet for marketing, my research led me to notice how the online social networks and [...]
Tags: Conference, Discussion, FaceBook, free, Music, MySpace, Online, philosophy, Portland, Reason, research, social, white paper || No Comments »
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Alex Mindlin of The New York Times reports:
Over the last 10 years, the average share of Americans listening to radio at any given time has shrunk about 14 percent, or 2.3 percentage points. Teenagers account for a well-recognized chunk of that decline. But Larry Rosin, a radio consultant with Edison Media Research in Somerville, N.J., [...]
Tags: environment, listener decline, Radio, research, teenagers || No Comments »
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Well not just Pampelmoose but all of us trusty blogheads. Here’s the scoop. The report costs $695.00 which I won’t be shelling out…but I think I know what it would say. Some highlights below.
Once a haven for techies, there are now blogs for everything from celebrity gossip to political commentary to the most mundane personal [...]
Tags: Blogs, eMarketer.com, Gossip, Pampelmoose, report, research || 1 Comment »