If you don’t know who Martin Atkins is, go and do your homework. From Public Image Ltd with Johnny Rotten, to Killing Joke, to Nine Inch Nails, to his industrial supergroup Pigface, to his legendary label Invisible Records to teaching music industry strategies at some of the mos prestigious universities and music industry events around the world,  to pioneering DIY music business industry models, when Martin talks, you better listen if you wanna learn something from someone who’s been there….done it….and LITERALLY wrote the book (If you’re in a band, his book TOUR:SMART is ESSENTIAL reading).

Andrew Dubber is another man to be taken seriously. A music industry expert and the man behind the website newmusicstrategies.com and the infamous "20 Things You Must Know About Music Online" e-book (also essential reading for anyone in the music industry).

And if you don’t know who I am, just hit the "About" button at the top of the page and figure it out. But suffice it to say, I’m an artist who is proactive and vocal about the nature of the new music model online, who strives to stay three steps ahead of the game. If you’re familiar with the band I am in, Swami, then chances are you’ll have noticed and been impressed by our vociferous attention to social music media.

Check the video and learn something.

Peace. S-Endz

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Stay tuned to your intergalactic spacestation for all the news….

Peace…

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And I’m not talking about Nelly and Kelly!!

Well kids, todays topic is media sharing! And by that, I mean pictures and video. My problem is too many services and which ones to choose!

So far I’m sharing pictures on:

TwitPic

TwitXr

Twitgoo

Flickr

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and I’m sharing video on:

TwitVid

12seconds.tv

So, clearly I need to pick one of each and stick with it. Video is fairly simple – TwitVid is gonna be the winner – I like their service, I have a great app for uploading to TwitVid from my phone, and quite frankly the 12 second limit of 12seconds.tv feels a bit too restricting.

If only there was a widget/badge for TwitVid though. If you look to the right column on the main page of my blog, you’ll see a very cool 12seconds widget. It plays the videos right there and you can skip through them easily. I need one of those for TwitVid dammit! But there doesn’t appear to be one as of yet

Now, moving on to pictures. Well, TwitPic is out of the question. Why? Because Twitgoo does exactly the same thing but better IMO. As you can see from clicking on those links, I’ve been using Twitgoo a fair amount recently and I haven’t used TwitPic in ages. But again – there doesn’t appear to be any Twitgoo widgets yet. LAME.

My experiments with photoblogging direct to this site have been fairly annoying, so I’m abandoning that plan. Plus I can’t track the stats as easily. TwitXr, I actually prefer in some ways to all the others. However, it has it’s own login system, so unlike Twitgoo and Twitpic where you login with your Twitter accounts, it requires potential photo commentors to register a new account. That sucks, but what it offers that the others don’t is direct upload sync to Flickr and Facebook as well as Twitter. So if I upload a pic using TwitXr, it automatically also uploads to Flickr and Facebook too. Plus I have a cool TwitXr widget on this site already.

So what does this all boil down to? Twitgoo for pictures. Twitvid for video. SOMEONE HURRY UP AND MAKE SOME COOL ASS WIDGETS FOR BOTH OF THEM ALREADY. If any of y’all see a cool Twitgoo or Twitvid widget, holla atcha boy.

Rant over.

Peace… .S dash E_N_D_Z

EDIT – I found me a Twitgoo widget! w00t!

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…..I’ll be able to make an album as good as this one. To think at the age I am now he was playing all the instruments, writing all the songs and creating classic albums. Damn P. Talk about setting the bar high!

whenever I’m around you baby, I get a dirty mind….doesn’t matter where we are…..doesn’t matter who’s around….doesn’t matter I just wanna lay you down…

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Well, I was the first to tell you about ‘Sugarless’ back when we were first recording it last January……well now you can check out the official music video which chronicles our summer of touring in the UK, Europe and Canada

Let me know what you guys think…

Peace!!

S-Endz

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Damn, this has got to be at least three years old!! Me and Diamond kicking it with Bobby Friction & Nihal after an interview on BBC Radio 1….

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