The Eyes of Aspen Are Upon You

Aspen is beautiful close-up too.

A Pause While I Gush

I saw Chris Isaak last night for the third time in a mere 18 years.

What a singer, what a showman, what a band, what a great great show.

A guy like him should have better fan sites than the current (mostly outdated) crop that's out there.

Managing Robbie Williams Fans, Part 2

Part 2 of an interview with Shell, webmaster for PureRobbie.com, a Robbie Williams fansite. Yesterday we got an overview of the site and its relationship with Robbie Williams and his associates. Today, she shares her insights and lessons learned from running the …

Managing Robbie Williams Fans, Part 1

Though we Americans have rarely heard of him, on the other side of the pond, Robbie Williams is big big news. And he's got a big big fan following to go along with that. I recently spoke with Shell, the webmaster for PureRobbie.com, a very successful fansite. Shell is a …

Music 2.0 Resources Aplenty

For a while I had this nice little fantasy that I'd spend part of this year exploring and blogging about all the cool "Music 2.03 applications that are out there. Ha! ha! ha! What I didn't realize was how many there were going to be. The last few months have seen an …

Wild West Appreciation Photoblogging

Went camping this week. Here's a picture from Red Fleet State Park in Utah:

And here's the view from our campsite. Really:

View the Flickr photo set here.

A Sad Loss

Robert Bur

It's the logos, baby

MetalAd is another example of fans using Last.fm to make cool stuff based on their listening charts. This extension:

... will create an image displaying the logos of your top artists on your last.fm profile (if you don't have a last.fm profile: create your own). Your …

Some observations on social network survey research

About 10 days ago, I launched a survey on Last.fm designed to assess the nature of "friendship" on the site. In the broadest sense, I just what to know what kinds of relationships hide beneath that label.

Getting the survey posted in a way that anyone would respond was …

Rocky Mountain Photoblogging

Here's your weekly photo from my Aspen holiday.

The Grottos:

I love the Internet

I've written about this before, but it just makes me so darn happy when those obscure Swedish bands I listen to show up in my shoutboxes and comment spaces unexpectedly.

Bands who aren't famous, take note: being proactive in reaching out to fans who listen to you …

ReverbNation joins the Facebook Application Fray

They may be a little late to the game, but ReverbNation have debuted their Facebook application, and it's got some interesting qualities that the other music ones don't (and some that they do).

The fans get to make playlists of tracks and embed them on their profiles. …

How NOT to market your new CD

The Smashing Pumpkins are taking a lot of rightly deserved heat for their 4-versions-of-the-same-CD release strategy. As Pitchfork writes in a story headlined Smashing Pumpkins to Fans, Indie Stores: Fuck You:

Billy and company would like you to know that they fully …

Is iLike a growing threat to Last.fm?

I've been writing this blog for about a year now, and I've written many times about Last.fm and iLike, and often in the same post. But every since iLike's Facebook app began its juggernaut climb to the top of the FBapp charts, the number of hits this blog gets from …

More Pictures

...because David asked, here's the gorgeous valley that goes up to Independence Lake just off Highway 82. You have to imagine that if you turn to the left you will see even more of this stuff, including a beautiful little lake nestled in a small valley (Linkins Lake, …

The Summer Research Life

It's a busy time for little old Nancy these days. In addition to extended vacationing in Colorado, I'm working on several research projects. I don't usually dwell too much on my researcher persona on this blog, but I thought some of you might be interested to hear what …

Does the internet make it easier to be a female music fan?

The other day I got an email from a female music fan who (in reference to this post in which I laid how the qualities of the internet that have most impacted music fandom) asked:

With the internet transcending time, space, social distance, its permanence and …

The Exemplary Labrador Records

Absolut Noise has an interesting interview with Johan Anderg

Greetings From Colorado

Regular readers can expect lighter posting for the next few weeks. Or maybe this will just become a photoblog for my Rocky Mountain fandom ;-}

McFLY 2015 has an official site

I'm a little late in reporting this. Ok, way late, but those of you yearning for the futuristic sneakers worn by Marty McFly in Back To The Future 2 will be pleased to hear that there's an official website to help you get your wish.

As you may recall, this project …