I usually spend a couple minutes each day cruising around the net to stay up on the zeitgeist. Sometimes I find something really intriguing, creative, or useful. More often I find things that are the equivalent of a song you hate and can’t get out of your head. The thing is, headline writing has become…
With today’s much-hyped IPO of Facebook, U2’s Bono stands to make a couple billion dollars through his investment company Elevation. That will be more money than he’s made with U2 in the last 30 years and, depending on his personal cut, could make him the world’s richest musician. Paul McCartney has had that distinction until…
I finally had a chance to dive into Pinterest yesterday. My profile is at http://www.pinterest.com/philcomedy/ if you’d like to come and check it out. I’ve never claimed to be an early adopter with this stuff. Apparently I had to wait until Pinterest became the 3rd most trafficked social media site on the net. That…
I recently released a survey to mailing list to get some feedback on possible models for future distribution of my music and comedy. Quite a few other artists were interested in seeing the results as well, so I thought I’d post them here. Now, I would not hold this up to any sort of strict…
I was listening to the Music Biz Weekly podcast over the weekend and they were talking about a new social network called Chime.in. Michael and Brian both seemed to like it an get some traction on it early. So I thought I’d give it a go. My profile is at http://chime.in/user/PhilJohnsonComedy Your thought is probably…
In the past I’ve never been much of a podcast listener. Much more of an audiobook or music guy in the car. But I had a bunch of driving to do for gigs last week, so I thought I’d give a few a shot. Pretty sure I’ll be back to being an audiobook guy again…
Everyone knows someone on Facebook. And everyone knows someone who’s not on Facebook. And now there’s peer pressure to be on Facebook. And what does a mother tell her child how to deal with it? “If all of your friends exposed every mundane detail about their personal life to the world, would you do it…
As an artist always reaching for exposure, I’m always interested in how others are making the web work for them. So I was excited to read Viral Loop by Adam Pennenberg. The Viral Loop is a collection of case studies of companies that rocketed to the top using viral loops as promotion. Everything from Tupperware…
This in from Music Industry Report via Trent’s Nine Inch Nails board: http://musicindustryreport.org/?p=8944 Now, this article may just sound like a whiny rock star at times, but he has some valid points. It is expected of celebrities now to open up their lives to these public portals. But at some point you’re going to end…
