Weekly "Greatest Hits" Recap Of My Music Related Posts On Social Media

Starting today, if you've subscribed via email to this blog, you will receive a weekly "greatest hits" recap of my music-related posts on social media.  This will ensure you see everything I post without Facebook or Twitter determining the who, when & how.  Of course, you're always free to unsubscribe and I'll never use your email for any reason other than these updates and Sound Bites Dog related news.  Ok, let's do this:

From 03.11.14 - 03.18.14

Facebook Statuses: If you're a band/brand on FB, your statuses are probably only being seen by fewer than 10% of fans. Use a personal page or have your blog/website be the aggregator for all content (and yes, this is why I'm doing a weekly "greatest hits" now) http://read.bi/1dKYGo6

Streaming Royalty Rates: We need to overhaul streaming royalty rates right now or artists won't have 0.008 cents to rub together.  It's in the best interests of everyone in our business (labels, publishers, artists AND tech) to actively pursue this for obvious reasons: our industry (like almost any industry you can think of) cannot be sustained by mere hobbyists in their bedrooms.  We need fair and adequate compensation for market demand (music is used to sell everything and anything you can think of including nearly 40% of all youtube views & their associated advertising) http://bit.ly/1gKG9Kv

SXSW 2014 as summed up by Lady Gaga: "The best thing that happened last night was I came off the stage. I was covered in paint vomit — we did live art at the show — & the CEO of Frito-Lay came in w/ all her kids & was like, 'That was so brilliant,' & she was crying." http://lat.ms/1j20M7C

Neil Young's Pono:  While I'm encouraged anyone cares at all about audio fidelity, I think a portable HD player seems antithetical to the reality of said device (IE listening on headphones at the gym).  There also seems to be plenty of other HD, inexpensive alternatives to Pono.  That being said, kudos to anybody doing anything outside the purview of Apple and advancing the cause of higher fidelity audio files: http://bit.ly/1i6ZWHr