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By Ryan Van Etten on 03/27/2011
I love loved email. Now I think it may be the death of me. IMO email has gone out of fashion. Lately when I look in my Gmail inbox I’m a deer in the headlights. I try to reply to everyone who writes me, but, at the same time I don’t want to spend my whole life writing emails.
Posted in Editor Notes, Editorial, Media/Journalism, Randomness, Visual | Tagged communication, culture, email, gmail, gmail search operators, infographic, life, openness, productivity, Ryan Van Etten, stats, story, time, tips, transparency |
By Ryan Van Etten on 02/16/2011
Usually when you see the words ‘greatest hits’ you get scared, right? You crunch up in a ball and think why, why, why? Don’t worry—it’s not what you think! With every new article I try to outdo myself and with that in mind I wanted to come up with something strong to follow my 2010 [...]
Posted in Editor Notes, Music, Narrative | Tagged acoustic rock, greatest hits, indie, It's The Heat, lyrics, most popular articles, music video, punk, rock music, Ryan Van Etten, song, video |
By Ryan Van Etten on 01/26/2011
For years I joked that my New Year’s resolution was to get into hard drugs, and have good posture. Well, luckily for my health I never followed through with the former. Actually it might be luckier for your sanity too. I have to say though that my posture has stayed pretty straight. Hell, I think I’m still getting taller at 31. I know it’s already a month in. It felt like a 25-day jet lag »
Posted in Boundless, Editor Notes, Editorial, Narrative, Randomness | Tagged be edgier, challenge the status quo, choose life, edgy, inspiration, life, mantras, New Year's resolution, push the envelope, resolutions, Ryan Van Etten |
By Ryan Van Etten on 01/09/2011
I consider my URL selection virtualmusic.tv as a minor fail. Of course when I launched the site in July 2009 I thought it was brilliant, but truly, only hindsight is 20/20. Last summer a conversation with Bandzoogle founder Chris Vinson helped confirmed in my mind that the URL choice of virtualmusic.tv was not ideal for the core reason above—it’s no .COM.
Posted in Discussion, Editor Notes, Editorial, News | Tagged .TV extension, analysis, branding, brands, business, case study, change, choosing a URL, Chris Vinson, comparison, decision, examples, fail, identity, identity crisis, learning experience, mistakes, name change, poll, SEO, site info, story, URL, URL formula, URL selection, virtual definition, word pairs |
By Ryan Van Etten on 06/20/2010
For the last few months I’d occasionally been hearing mini-explosion sounds like those bang snaps that I remember from my semi-pyromaniac youth. I finally figured out they were coming from my computer—a custom PC that I built in 2007. After another explosive pop yesterday, the graphics on my screen started to look like they were drunk. I opened up the PC case and my 2 SLI graphics cards were literally like a million degrees!
Posted in Editor Notes, Narrative, Randomness | Tagged blown capacitors, custom PC, donate, electronics, EVGA, exploded, GeForce, GeForce 7300 GT, graphics card, help, NVIDIA, overheating, photos, video card |
By Ryan Van Etten on 09/01/2009
“Remixed” is a new beta section on VirtualMusic.tv covering open remixing via remix reviews, remix stories, virtual collaboration, and remix production techniques. The idea is an mp3blog covering remixed tracks with posts that include—or link to—streaming remixed audio or video.
Posted in Editor Notes, Music, News, Remixed, Reviews | Tagged Apps, collaboration, Creative Commons, Indaba Music, music industry, open, remixing, resources, site info, social music |