WELCOME TO FLUX RESEARCH: CLYDE WRITES
WELCOME TO FLUX RESEARCH: CLYDE WRITES
What is Dragontape?
Enter The Dragontape: Hungarian Music Startups Expand the Competitive Terrain
Dragontape "seems the most similar to current trends in online mixtape and playlist offerings that draw on YouTube and SoundCloud."
Noispot "provides a paid hardware-based solution for venues and events that includes a Community DJ System [for patrons]."
Mixgar "takes a web-based approach that streams music from YouTube and offers a bit more interactivity for partiers and patrons via their mobile devices [than Noispot]."
3GM provides a "turnkey white label music streaming solution."
Related Flux Research Coverage:
Flux Research: Music Startups
Clyde Smith Writing at Hypebot
In late 2004, I founded the first hip hop business blog called ProHipHop. I eventually sold it in and fully exited by late 2010. I originally wrote the following hip hop business essays for ProHipHop and have since archived them at Hip Hop Logic where I still, on rare occasions, blog about hip hop.
At ProHipHop I planned a regular series of business interviews to be called Talking Hip Hop Business but only completed one, an interview with Tahir titled:
The Revolutionary Heart of the Dirty South: Tahir on Hood Economics
I also wrote a handful of hip hop business essays for a Canadian publication, Pound Magazine, in a series called All In The Game, that were intended to address misconceptions about hip hop and business:
How Much Longer Can Hip Hop Claim Outsider Status?
New York Clip 11 - Subway Skating
I'm contemplating merging Flux Music videos into a Video Break category and nixing the imminent launch of Flux Cats. Or not. I'm kind of winging it at the moment!
In any case, this video is pretty darn wild. The skating's not that out of the ordinary except for the fact it's in the subway and kind of nuts given that environment.
Since Flux Research is intended, in part, to be a place to connect my diverse writing activities, I thought I'd mention that you can find an archive of some of my academic writing at Cultural Research. Topics include study of a dance conservatory well-known for abusive treatment of students, gender studies and curriculum design.
Most of this was written while earning my MA in Dance Studies at UNC-Greensboro followed by a PhD in Cultural Studies at Ohio State University in the final decade of the 20th Century.
I was fairly prolific with numerous peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations as well as a few book chapters. I took full advantage of academia's blind review system which features peer review without identifying the author of the submitted research. On the web, nobody knows you're a dog. In academia, blind peer review means nobody knows you're a grad student!
Sadly, I was one of those who did not end up with a teaching position in higher ed. But, if things go the way I'd like them to, it may all work out just fine.
I am highly critical of higher education in many respects but I'll save that for another day. Also, I intend to return to certain research topics but with writing for a popular audience. That, too, is for another day.
Frank Ocean - Swim Good
Frank Ocean represents a new generation of R&B singers that's breathing some life into a well-established genre. His relationship with the controversial Odd Future collective earned him widespread attention but I think he'll be holding his own long-term.
Just to update my handful of readers, Flux Research is starting to fall into place.
I've got to reclassify a bunch of blog posts and then possibly add a couple of sections.
For example, I'd like to find a way to forefront my Music Tech posts at Hypebot. Though I enjoy the full range of my music industry writing at Hypebot, I'd like the music tech posts to get a bit more attention.
Actually I'd like it all to get more attention! But music startups are a particular interest so I'm going to figure out a way to forefront them via this site.
Also, I honestly may add a cat video section. I love cats and I hear posting cat videos is good for business!
I think it would be funny and also satisfy people searching for a reason to dismiss my work since I agree with Seth Godin, some customers should be fired!
Please stay tuned.
Mistah F.A.B. freestyles at Occupy Oakland Video Shoot
I'm starting a Flux Music section to post music videos I'm enjoying for whatever reason. Sort of an entertainment break!
Found the above Mistah F.A.B. video via Boots Riley on Twitter.
I've been reading a lot relevant to the Web Business Models theme of this blog but I have other things on which to focus. So I am planning on shifting this blog to a more general hub for my writing.
"Turn and face the strange changes."
Yeah!
I'm experimenting a bit with This Business of Blogging which was actually a precursor to Flux Research. I'm mostly going to be posting small news items and then digging in when it seems appropriate. I thought about doing those posts here but I'm realizing that some of them would be off-topic.
If it seems like I'm having trouble focusing, well, yeah. I am!
Basically I launched All World Dance earlier this year. It has great potential but once I started writing for Hypebot I found myself pulled between two major topics with little crossover. I then put AWD on hold while I sorted out music-related news sources and, once I dug in deeply, I realized I could start writing more about music startups at Flux Research and eventually would be able to hold my own with anybody covering that topic that I've seen to date.
But it became clear that focusing on music startups at FR would conflict with what I'm doing at Hypebot so I had to let that go. Though not everything I would write would be in conflict, having to second guess myself really kills my flow so I'm regrouping.
Blogging is a big part of what I do. I've been doing it for almost 10 years and shifts in blogging as a business have greatly informed my take on web business models.
So we'll see where this next step in my blogging career will take me!
Flux Research is a Freelance
Writing Hub for Clyde Smith.
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