By Ryan Van Etten on 06/03/2010
In the sea of music blogs, best means most relevant to the reader. How can bands or listeners find blogs in their genre? How can they find blogs in a specific city? Google is an obvious search tool for most topics, but to really get in the trenches and find smaller indie blogs, here are five super-effective search techniques. Includes live music photos.
Posted in Music, Music Flux, News, Popular | Tagged blog aggregators, bloggers, Cymbals Eats Guitars, Delicious, Elbo.ws, genres, Google, Hype Machine, indie, Japandroids, last.fm, live music, location, music blog search, music bloggers, MusicBiz, No Age, noise pop, photos, resources, rock/pop, search relevance, search trends, similar artists, social media, stumbleupon, tips, Titus Andronicus, Twitter
By Ryan Van Etten on 02/11/2010
Dubbed musicblogocide2k10 Google deleted at least six known music blogs from its Blogger platform. Google posted an official response highlighting their current procedures for handling DMCA complaints that were last updated last summer—Google implies that they warn offending bloggers but cite difficulty contacting offenders in the past. They also include the link for filing a DMCA counter claim.
Posted in Activism, Discussion, Editorial, Infoculture, Media/Journalism, Music, News | Tagged backup, bandcamp, blog shutdowns, blogger, bloggers, blogging, blogspot, change, copyright law, Creative Commons, digital, DMCA, domains, dreamhost, DRM, EFF, embedding, export, Google, Grooveshark, hosting, how to, import, internet, jamendo, legal, musicblogocide, musicblogocide2k10, platform, posterous, promo code, resources, rights, soundcloud, squarespace, tips, transfer, transferring, tumblr, widgets, wordpress, writers, YouTube
