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Audio from my appearance at Chicago Music Commission panel

Yazan: Jason | 29 April 2009 | No Comments
Categories: blogging, egomaniacal, podcasting

The audio track (about 1 1/4 hours) from the Chicago Music Commission‘s Musicians at Work forum in which I recently participated as a panelist was released a couple of weeks ago. Podcasters Jim Goodrich and Fred Wells, along with Gaper’s Block writer Graham Sanford and yours truly all participated an a Q&A about podcasting, blogging, [...]

Jason Heath ACM Chicago Presentation 1/14/09

Yazan: Jason | 04 January 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: blogging, egomaniacal

I’ll be doing a talk on multimedia websites for the Chicago Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). I’m honored that I’ve been asked to speak (they get some pretty heavy duty guests for these meetings!), and I’ll be chatting about the evolution of my blog, how it became popular and profitable, and how [...]

The benefits of keeping your independent voice

Yazan: Jason | 05 March 2008 | 2 Comments
Categories: blogging, egomaniacal, podcasting

I’ve been blogging for several years now, and doing this kind of writing on a daily basis (there are over 2100 posts on doublebassblog.org right now….and counting!) has naturally made me take some time to think about the benefits and drawbacks of independent publishing. I’ve also done a fair amount of writing for other blogs [...]

International Musician features yours truly

Yazan: Jason | 04 February 2008 | 1 Comment
Categories: blogging, egomaniacal, music news, podcasting

The February 2008 edition of International Musician, the monthly publication from the American Federation of Musicians, contains a feature on this site and the various satellite projects that I have developed during these past few years of blogging and podcasting, including Arts Addict, Inside the Arts, and Contrabass Conversations. This feature contains several references to [...]

Polish or Publish? – new and old media differences of opinion

Yazan: Jason | 26 October 2007 | 1 Comment
Categories: egomaniacal, Uncategorized

“Publish my stuff? Online? What…..do you mean my writing?” “You’ve got to be kidding me!” “It’s just………..not…..good enough yet!” If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the past couple of years of blogging, it’s that new media (like blogs and podcasts) requires new attitudes toward content creation and publication. Quickly fading are the days when [...]

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