As a fellow artist I disagree :)
I’d totally use this. Spotify and Apple Music are 99% of my plays. The other services don’t matter.
(Youtube and Soundcloud are uploaded separate from Distrokid / CD Baby.)
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I’d totally use this. Spotify and Apple Music are 99% of my plays. The other services don’t matter.
(Youtube and Soundcloud are uploaded separate from Distrokid / CD Baby.)
Men often are the ones who setup the devices. Even if they have a restraining order they will turn music on in the middle of the night, mess with the lights, turn the thermostat down etc. Before a restraining order smart devices are often used for monitoring.
Edit for clarity: Even if a woman has a restraining order against the abuser, the abuser will turn on music in the middle of the night, mess with the lights, turn the thermostat down etc. If the woman still lives with the abuser, smart devices (not necessarily Alexa) are used to monitoring comings and goings.
One person often sets up the devices and the other person has no understanding of how to turn these things off. Even more often: the harassed woman doesn't even realize what's happening is due to the man controlling smart devices— the harassed is "gaslighted" and thinks they're going crazy ("why does the temperature keep PLUMMETING?").
The video shows that data wasn't deleted on the Echo Dot even after a parent tried to delete it. Which is bad. (Though there's a bigger point they are making— that parents should be able to control privacy for their children, not Amazon.)
"Being a Theme Partner is a full-time job."
"Shopify themes need constant care and attention. We expect Theme Partners who work with us to be engaged, passionate about their theme(s), and apply any theme updates we request in a timely manner."
"Our current Theme Partners are a tight-knit group of people."
The whole point of the app store is to avoid the mistakes of Magento: building a confusing, monolithic mess because they tried to shoehorn too many features into the core.
You can see a sample of the newsletters here: https://mailchi.mp/224bac98aac1/saturday-edition-june-15-260...
I was inspired by Jessica Lessin (The Information) who's been adamant that the secret to building paywalls is building a great product. Village is my attempt at creating a great local news product.
In the last 2 months I've been able to sign up a little over 100 subscribers— but they were all previously subscribed to a free version of the newsletter I ran from 2016-2017 (it had over 4,000 subscribers). I've already emailed the free version list 3 or 4 times so I'm reticent to keep selling to it.
Newsletters take me about 13 hours each week (10 hours curating / writing and 3 hours taking photographs around the city).
My biggest challenge is marketing. I've priced it at $3 / month because that's what a price-point people have told me they are comfortable with (which I know, conventional wisdom is INCREASE your price). $3 / month makes it hard to get a positive ROI on things like Facebook Ads (though even at $3 / month I'm not having much success converting cold leads to warm leads).
Would love to know your feedback.
I know it’s cliche but it’s cliche for a reason.
Apple Music on the hand hasn't even verified my artist profile— which I need in order to view analytics. So I don't even know if people listen to me there.
31% embeds on my website
19% Youtube search
3% Youtube browse features
3% Youtube channel page
Facebook on the other hand turned my Facebook "page" into a payola scheme where I had to pay to access my audience. Lame.
From what I understand, Marx's contribution to political thought is his philosophy of history. it's not that the proletariat would overthrow the bourgeoisie in his day— but rather that it was simply an inevitability. History was marching towards it.
I know Ben was using it as a way to tie-together political implications— I'm just clarifying.
It makes total sense that people are listening for vibe. Music is way more accessible than ever before. We pipe in music constantly to set mood or create ambience (or to cancel surrounding noise). I recently saw my father-in-law (who's in his mid-60s) sit down with his laptop and simply listen to some of his favourite folk music. He wasn't browsing the web. He was just listening. It was funny how unusual it seemed.
I wonder if outrage from the music industry over the decline of active-listening has more to do with the feeling that artists are just less important. People mostly listen to music now— rather than individual artists.