New blog series about the 7 Deadly Sins of SOCIAL, and how they’re affecting indie creators each month.
Check “Nov in SOCIAL”. Re. 6 Anger: #TwitterFiles are overhyped.
But this track is underhyped, pls share!!
(#BURNER #arts)

New phone-number leaks (from scraped-data):
1 LinkedIn (Greed) 👎: 2m salespeople bout to get a lot more ‘inbounds’. Makes you wonder if it’s worth all the actors & singers tryna give everything away on this platform to get hired.
plus Meta (5&7) get hit again. half a billi WhatsAppers (incl 1in6 Brits) bout to get invited to a load more GCs! In case you’re wondering why I invite fans to a Signal group instead..

2 TikTok (Gluttony) 👎: I might just bring myself to syndicate a post monthly to TT if they didn’t block visiting their website on a VPN:

< img src=“https://wa.rner.me/uploads/2022/a66bd4932e.png" width=200 >

3 YT (Sloth) 👍: I cleared 75k channel views (meaning “Swan Centre” is now less than half my views XD didn’t stop me encoring with it at the MadHatters party which I teased)

5 IG (Pride) 👍: Tho I’m aware it’s TikTok clone by stealth, as an artist I like being able to add my music to any IG post, like I recently did with Another Year to tease this New Years all about another name..
Hope we can add songs from web soon.

6 Twitter (Anger) 👎: Elon thinks he can change the world by releasing a few emails showing genuine debate over 3 difficult days where they eventually made right choice. Barely merits audacious PR name #TwitterFiles. Ur not actually brave freedom-preserving hero Ed Snowden geezer.

Beware SOCIAL
Share “SOCIAL” 🎵

See you in 7

[edited immediately to add number 2 and ensure numbers format correctly]

You’ve read the first edition of

“Last month in SOCIAL”

New monthly series of short blog articles, which I will be using as my signoff post disconnecting my blogposts from syndicating to SOCIAL for each FirstWeek.
I will cover the major updates from the 7 Big Socials, with a particular focus on how changes affect indie creators in the arts, including my own personal experience.

I will return to SOCIAL on the 2nd Monday of the month, as usual with the standard format of a vlog on YT (& Vimeo).

The 7 SOCIALS I cover are the 7 Deadly Sins in recent diss-track “SOCIAL”. It has organic viral potential to spread an urgent & useful message. Please listen to and share “SOCIAL” at Ceru.Li/sten-social

cool how she coached up this drummer to become a collaborator and tell his story
Refreshing to hear the Producer pushing the GenZ emo to take creative risks and have fun in studio

Listen Notes

Listened on Apple Podcasts

Doubling like Elliot Smith Drums: Mattel toy - “optigon?” 14’ producer Tony: crazy sounds eg Beatles styles bells

25’ defeat writers block: If I’m Tweeting at 2am it’s cos I almost wrote a song. Do a real-world time-limited thing: Like cleaning a draw/car 27’ subconscious alter-ego writes: same! 28’ you have to feel lime you’re having an affair with your art

“Finished reading” Canary Islands (Travel Guide) by Lonely Planet 📚

Therefore also beach reads:

The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben 📚. Trump-era America thriller.

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak 📚. A gentle touch on migration. Inspired the “islanders welcomed me” line in my Canaries song

sci-fi book club back in England next: Hell Sans, fittingly

you can find out what you can read-along with me next on my about page

Gonna monitor my every move in App Store Apple? Fine I’ll disable App Store (with @NextDNS #privacy #tech)

Backed these students taking a creative risk.
First feature film at Oxford Uni since Hugh Grant’s 80s debut. Proper education that
(🍿 #arts)

[email protected]: it’s not a good-look to be adding Stories the same week TikTok do (#tech)

It’s moments like this I’m glad I’ve only used an iPhone ¾ of the time for the past half-decade #BURNER.
Imma consider logging off iCloud on my MacBook next week (#tech)

Short-list of Blockchain benefits from Molly famous #cryptosceptic. As I’ve argued, both actually useful for domain-name ownership. Waiting for someone to do it right tho: unique namespace & carbon-neutral pls. (#cryptogratiacrypt #tech)

One for each year from the first decade of YouTube (plus a lil 2020 bonus..).
You only have to know one fact that would find it on a YT search: either artist OR song-title!

Compiled with respect for every artist named & credited in the answers, which you can find here, along with an Easy Mode (more revealing) compilation.
As far as my efforts go, I’m happy for other Quiz Masters to download and reuse this, along with the rest of the quiz questions.

The event was the Las Palmas DigitalNomad weekly quiz at Sunset Bar, which I’d won the week before. Off the back of my recent BBC appearance, I was asked to host it as my first quiz, and I was especially proud of this niche but surprisingly knowable music-round.
Hope to share a video of the exciting tiebreak finale soon.
I’ll also be sharing a video of my performance at this community’s MadHatters Rave tomorrow night!
(immediately fixed www on Nomad-Island.com link!)

Just submitted the Warner Brothers annual Only Connect application, so thought I should post my amuse-bouche of listen-notes on listening to this sublime piece of podcasting.
VCM came on with a mission to unnerve the rising comics, and smashed it!

I listened on Apple, but you can direct on their website

I love that rapper Scroobius Pip was their first guest. To listen next, along with Munya and Richard Ayoade.

“Giles (Coren) wants to tuck into an anecdote!”

Mitchells take DVD player on holiday!

35’ poker is a safe life: sit 10h at a time with best friend, no words

36’ ooft avo vinagrette sounds amazing! Forgot about that!

Simultaneously horrible and of nothing

54’ did Mitchell really quip “f*** a prostitue” to guilty pleasure question??

Regret shoulda said “esprit d’escalier” (Diderot’s quip about thinking of comeback at bottom of stairs)

70’ Acaster fuming at Viccy trolling. Is she?? Is this like Boris playing the normie clown?

75’ angriest Acaster

🔏 M.b: Hiding ‘Stats’ (and other menu headers) with Custom CSS on @thedimpause Typewriter theme (at least Dark Mode):
❌ can’t use original @sod nav type-selector
✅ class-select menu__entry instead

New SA Dashboard features. I turn off: outliers-exclusion for accuracy, curves for simplicity, guidance for less distraction, and the @SimpleAnalytic Script annotations (both if Public, but keep v9 bot-filter if you also design with Responsively)
(#tech)

How ‘Serve #Fonts Locally’ improves your #Carrd head style code:
Before: fonts called by name, after link to external Google API 👎
After: each #font referenced by its own link from YourDoma.in/assets/fonts/gr0up/sp3c1f1c 👍
(#tech)

Dropbox want to be: “a 1-stop shop, rather than using 89 apps”
DocSend still separate.. but worse they’ve neglected their core feature (Mac Sync) for over 8 months!
I’m dropping to ‘88 apps’ once Proton has Mac sync on Drive.
#tech companies: you’re acquaintances, not spouses.

Delighted for tourney comeback from Rashford & Saka (bagging an extra one for Jadon). My thoughts with that Angry mob of #Twits at this time. (#SOCIAL #YoungLions ⚽️ #arts)

Sorry my Iranian doppelganger (spotted by bro Jonty), Xmas football’s coming home (⚽️ #arts)

🔏 doing all my M.b engagement (Mentions & Discover) on a weekly basis means I never tire of you good people.
Best strangers on the internet here. Hopefully less strangers soon @PunnedIt &c as the BlueTicks circle

The act after me at my last pub-night said:

“This guy is a pure entertainer. Check him out when he hits your town.Highly recommended.”

• @BedfordCelts
  

(#livemusic #community #arts)

🔏 M.b crossposting articles to LinkedIn - still locked to Connections only (strange UX @manton given that they are already public open-web posts, but maybe it’s API lock), but at least working. I like that LI have inched v. slightly from #hustle GREED w/ breaks (#tech)

Yes “Smart Musicians in 2022 Have a Website”, but it’s not Bandzoogle, or any tool built for musicians.
It’s a music-themed template on a general website-builder like Webflow, Squarespace, Shopify or Carrd (#SavvyIndie #arts)

takeaways from @MMFUK 30: ‘virch’ & ‘phygital’… cracking portmanteus for crossing physical and online realms (#arts)

Read other’s blogs

Start subscribing via a RSS Feed Reader. For ideas, see who I sub to on my profile (currently a mockup) on OURSS.SOCIAL

First-choice: NetNewsWire native apps

Hon mention: InoReader online

Not ready to use a feed reader? Subscribe via email where you can, but be sure to use aliases (w/ SimpleLogin, AnonAddy etc) unless you know & trust the person

Release content

Some content platforms are more closed than others. These are ones I got started on which ultimately let me embed them on my own website today.

Music: Bandcamp

Video: Vimeo (25% off)

Podcast: Anchor

Get a static 1-page website

Not ready to churn out regular content, but want a web-presence you own. Buy a domain and plop down an intro there (think of it as a virtual business card / Linktree)

First-choice: Carrd (use my Moderner templates for just 3 bucks)

Hon mention: Squarespace (if you’ve got money and/or might wanna ultimately bolt-on a blog there)

and finally… Start a blog

don’t wait for OURSS. You’ll get most out of it if you already have an active blog at a domain you own.

First-choice: (hosted) Micro.blog

Hon mention: Ghost and Substack (w/ custom-domain)

Thanks for enjoying the musical manifesto to OURSS.SOCIAL. I can’t wait to get some useful tools up there to make RSS more social in the new year.

“SOCIAL” 🇺🇸 Spotify Save Rates > magic 10% = can really land a punch on Silicon Valley if can get more Reach. Pls share Ceru.Li/sten-social (#arts)

“SOCIAL” 🇺🇸 Spotify Save Rates > magic 10% = can really land a punch on Silicon Valley if can get more Reach. Pls share Ceru.Li/sten-social (#arts)