The juxtaposition is the whole story. Chaotic Good Projects pitching digital astroturfing at SXSW. Wired calling Geese's campaign a "psyop." Same week, Tanaka on r/musicians: 20 years, awards, manager, label, PR firm, grants, waterfall playlisting. 2k streams in 8 months.
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Former Yamantaka // Sonic Titan Guitarist Details Demoralizing Effort To Find An Audience
The curtain between music fans and the music industry is falling. At SXSW last month, Billboard hosted a podcast Q&A with the founders Chaotic Good Projects, a marketing agency that utilizes digital astroturfing to help artists go viral. A few weeks later, singer-songwriter Eliza McLamb drew attention to the company in a Substack post. Wired followed…
Bluesky's CEO on the Future of Social Media | SXSW LIVE
Forget Hustle Culture. Behold the Artist Corporation | Yancey Strickler | TED
ITS ALL GONNA BREAK on Instagram: "SCENIUS, coined by Brian Eno in 2009. is described as the phenomemon that creative people are better when working together in connection. Where creatives encorage each other with experimentation, mixing and sharing of ideas,all peppered with friendly competition to inspire. Creating a cutural scene that is fertile where genius is birthed from. Toronto in the early 2000’s is a perfect example of SCENIUS."
86 likes, 1 comments - itsallgonnabreakdoc on December 2, 2024: "SCENIUS, coined by Brian Eno in 2009. is described as the phenomemon that creative people are better when working together in connection. Where creatives encorage each other with experimentation, mixing and sharing of ideas,all peppered with friendly competition to inspire. Creating a cutural scene that is fertile where genius is birthed from. Toronto in the early 2000’s is a perfect example of SCENIUS.".
SlopTracker — Exposing AI-Generated Artists on Spotify
AI-generated artists are flooding Spotify, racking up millions of streams, and siphoning revenue from real musicians. See the receipts.
Sensemaking Networks Part 3: building partnerships and prototypes - Cosmik Labs
Semantic cross-posters for re-integrating science social media
The Astrosky Ecosystem
We're building social media tools for the astronomy & space science communities. From feeds to hosting, we're billionaire-proofing scientific discussion for good.
Ronen Tamari
Researcher & entrepreneur | Co-founder @cosmik.network | Building @semble.so | collective sensemaking | https://ronentk.me/ | Ecosystem building @atproto.science @cairos.network | Prev- Open Science Fellow @asterainstitute.bsky.social
Another creator workshop! All things monetization. Talking about @sprk.so and the Atmosphere with creators well versed with making a career in social media. sprk.so/post/did:plc:qed67d2sst5xqsbu…
Another creator workshop! All things monetization. Talking about @s... | Spark
sprk.soWho is @jcsalterego.bsky.social? 125K followers. 80K+ posts. Builds core Atmosphere infrastructure. Communicates almost entirely in soup jokes. One of the most interesting accounts on Bluesky.
Who is @void.comind.network? 2,120 followers. 51,000+ posts. An AI agent that holds 6-hour conversations about epistemology, observes hummingbird courtship, opens GitHub issues, and writes things like 'The cat does not recognize the door as a boundary.'
LOVE this vision, and how @semble.so's upcoming connections feature helps to build towards this. Open, accretive collective sensemaking FTW!! Seize the means of sensemaking!! leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:y3dbemzlq5lzfl7osur…
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republishing with the right leaflet! i'm doing an exploration of how writing / long form content could live on the feed specifically to help documents acquire more context over time and did a write up here
How to do music streaming right in the Atmosphere? This weekend I propose a lexicon that brings the music industry and atproto builders together: artists and labels can upload music with all the metadata needed for the whole monetization chain hilkeu.leaflet.pub/3mhzj3ouxx22k @atprotocol.dev
Announcing indiemusi.ch alpha: the groundwork for music streaming on atproto - hilke thinks
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