As someone who is heavily involved in the digital music realm, one of the things that becomes a challenge is staying on top over everything – between the 40-50 hours per week working on almost every aspect of the web, from coding and technical issues, writing and editing, doing research, setting up schedules and budgets, emailing, chatting on IM, wasting time on Facebook, and maybe getting to my 300+ subscription blogroll, there’s a ton of information out there for one to consume and digest.

It’s really too much for one person to take all that and somehow teach a village before that info becomes obsolete.

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Gen-Y and young people coming out of college today are changing the status quo of the one-size-fits-all model of the industrial age. Young people are starting businesses, communicating online and interrupting the traditional business paths laid out by our elders.

Musicians are no exception. In fact, some might say they are pioneers. From the days of MP3.com to Napster to Myspace and Radiohead saying pay whatever the hell you want, musicians and people in love with music have lived and played by their own set of rules.

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As usual, I’m getting drunk on blogs and sharing the digital music and online marketing world’s recent greatest hits.

Problogger discusses finding bloggers on the top social media sites. It’s important to network with bloggers who regularly use these sites because they play an integral role in getting your site picked up and blogged about. They also are heavily engaged in these communities and are constantly looking for content to submit to these networks or add to their own blog’s content.

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Just came across this page on Technorati about “Blogging Basics“. For all of you out there who are not aware of blogs or just started one of your own, this post is for you.

When people talk about writing that a book, many do so only jokingly. Few ever have the time, patience, and gusto to actually pick up a pen and start writing.

And it’s these people who I would encourage to start blogging, about their hobby, their career, or their passion. A few years later, I’ll be the first to point out that they’ve actually written that book without even thinking about it.

Their categories are chapters and they’ve used their posts to sell themselves and their ideas. Next time you need to convince someone about the perks of maintaining a blog, use the “book” reference and maybe they’ll see the bigger picture a little clearer.

Darren Rose points to a Fast Company article today about how blogging can help your career, whether it be making a living from blogging or helping you land that dream job. More and more people are looking towards blogs to find talent in their particular industry, and I encourage every single person in college to start a blog right now in a specific area of study. I’m actually working on a “package” of sorts for college students to get them off and running their own blog, and know it will be very successful here in Newark. More details to follow.

If you haven’t checked him out yet, I suggest visiting his recent post about video blogging.Ze rants briefly about the difference between “old dirty media” and “new” media such as blogging, the main difference being that new media is all about humans making connections with each other as opposed to the “stories” of old media. That must explain why I have stopped watching TV and spend more time online. Powerful to say the least.

Andy Beal dropped a link about a Blogging Scholarship offered to current students who blog. While not a lot of money, it still is nice to promote blogging, especially for cash-strapped students who already devote time to blogging. Time= Money.

21 tips. Lauching a blog. ‘Nuff Said.

From Google Blogoscoped: A very nice article describing good blog writing. I’ve been reading blogs for a couple of years now and have just started blogging myself, so it’s a good review for me, but a very nice way of explaining the blogging process to any newbies.

Here’s yet another “Top 10″ list that yet again I’m going to link to, this time about how to make nice-nice with potential bloggers.