How indie artist Amanda Palmer made $19,000 in 10 hours on Twitter: The Friday Freaks story and an Amanda Palmer video interview.
- YouTube is reporting a 1700% jump in mobile video uploads. The've also made six improvements and are upgrading the channels feature, but if you use it (and you should), you may need to do some repair work.
- More cuts at MySpace. 66% of international staff were given pink slips.
ReverbNation teamed with Microsoft Windows for a big indie song giveaway and with Bandzoogle for a d.i.y web site builder.
- More job cuts at MTV last week, but they made room for Jessica Simpson.
- Is Beyonce really helping the hungry with a new campaign or is she just helping herself?
- Do you use Eventful? They've passed 10 million users and 75,000 performers.
- New study show that Twitter users want to discover and will actually pay for music.
- Videos interviews from NARM: Future Of Digital, Four Major Label VP's On The State Of The Industry, Topspin's Ian Roger's On Music Marketing, Video: Techdirt's Mike Masnick Offer Hope, Bill Wilson, NARM's Dr. Of Biz Dev. & Digital Strategy
- Interview with author Dalton Conley of "Elsewhere, U.S.A."
- How to post music to Twitter using Soundcloud.
- Here are the kind of music startups one venture capitalist would like to fund.
Kyle Bylin on "Killing Itself to Live: How the Record Industry Conceived It’s Own Demise"
- Bruce Houghton on "Looking Beyond The Music Industry" for inspiration and a short essay "Music Success Begins In The Niche"
- A2IM & AIM: Two Indie Trades Groups Join Forces
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