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January 2009
“Can you sign this disclaimer form?” asked the Doctor, an hour before I was supposed to have surgery. By now my fingers felt numb, I had departed ways with MySpace and wasn’t sure where 2009 would take me.
Before I went in, I remember thinking: A year ago my friend told me about RSI and now I’m in hospital about to have an operation. How things can change so much in …
One of the funniest and yet brilliant music success stories i’ve seen actually happened to my former flatmate, Lee Kirby.
About 3 years ago, Lee picked up the guitar for the first time and spent hours practising and writing songs. During this period he also started singing songs in Vietnamese, which was not surprising because he loves the Vietnamese culture. This started 7 years earlier when he said he would be the 1st English player to play professional football in Vietnam. He achieved this and since then his love affair began. …
The Top News of the Week
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BBC Radio 6 was recently doomed to closure, a decision which has caused huge outcry from the public. Rumours have spread that the BBC are reconsidering, but BBC director of audio and music Tim Davie suggests otherwise. BBC’s Tim Davie: I’m passionate about 6 Music, too – but it has to go
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iTunes representatives are asking artists to reconsider putting offering their songs on Amazon’s Daily Deal MP3 offers. Media memo
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According to research, music videos account for 30.7% of all content on YouTube. Major Music groups even …
Now, usually my posts are about helping, inspiring and telling stories or theories. I dont often let people know much about me besides the work side of me, but I am going to write a couple of posts about the nightmare I have been living with throughout 2008 and 2009. I am a pretty closed person but with this post and 1 more, you will read a true, personal story about me and the long battle I have had with Repetitive Strain Injury aka RSI.
Jan 08
“Guys, do you …
Hi everyone
I have been very slack on the blog posting recently but I can assure you that I will be blogging regulary again from…..NOW .
There has been a good reason though and that is because I have been working on my school project. For those who do not know I created and now have implemented the 1st social media course in UK schools, which was linked to GCSE English.
The results were amazing and have seen children get B’s and A’s in some of their coursework. See, social media is …
The Top News of the Week
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Three companies have complained that Google uses unfair tactics in the war of the search engines. Google are suspected of keeping advertising prices “artificially high” and manipulating the market search engine to favour their own products, amongst other things, the search engine has come under the scrutiny of it’s main competitors. If found guilty of malpractice, Google could face a fine of up to $2.3 billion: Times
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Wired have taken a look at Google’s influence of Music in the past and present, and make predictions for the …
