Curating the Curators
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Netlabel Assembly 2026 – Sunday, August 16
WHO: Anyone who is involved or would like to be involved with Netlabels. There is also a Curator Assembly scheduled for July 19. Come to both if you like! The Curator Assembly is targeted specifically at podcasters and other sites such as clongclongmoo, Jamendo, and FMA in the Net Native Music (“ccmusic”) space. In the future,… Read.
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CC Listening Party dates the rest of 2026
Saturday May 30, 1pm US Central – A little unclear what is happening the week before this, but hotel locks in May 19, so we will have a bit of time beforehand if changes are necessary. Saturday June 27, 1pm US Central – my parents will be in town, so I may end up having… Read.
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Please Welcome A23P as the CTO of FCCM
Please join me in welcoming A23P aka Alien Nesby (Al) as the Chief Technical Officer of Friends of CC Music (FCCM). Mr. Nesby never got back to me about this intro post and I forgot to ask on our call last night, but seeing as how he’s officially doing the work of CTO, I’m going… Read.
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Netlabel Day 2026 is 4.5 Months Away
Netlabel Day 2026 is 4.5 Months away. What this means is that you need to start thinking about your upcoming releases. If you are a netlabel or musician that releases once a month, think about either holding your June release until July 14, or moving up your July release to the Bastille Day. The French… Read.
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A Change of Agenda
Alien Nesby aka A23P aka Al talks about dealing with changing circumstances as “riding the waves.” I don’t know if he came up with it originally. If you have ever been surfing, you know that you need to just let the board move underneath you. I’ve only been surfing once, but I remember this ethos.… Read.
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Know the Enemy and Know Yourself
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War… Read.
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Evaluating our Media Presence (and the organization)
As has often been the case in my writing career, I have a draft that needs completing, but I am starting a draft. I use “career” here intentionally, since for a while that really was my job running Netizen Empowerment Federation. Also though, this is true of my writing projects for the day job. Netizen… Read.
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The History of Jibber Jabber Jambalaya
As I noted in the previous post, there was a lot to come out of the Music Maynumit talk I had with Tom Ray of Lorenzo’s Music. Existential questions, really. There’s a very real possibility I won’t address those until after Netlabel Week in July. There’s the Netlabel Week planning, but I also have JJJ’s… Read.
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The History of the CC Listening Party
There was a lot to come out of the talk today I had with Tom Ray of Lorenzo’s Music, and at some point I need to address some of those topics in greater depth. One thing though that came up though was what became the CC Listening Party. Since the CC Listening Party recently had… Read.
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Jibber Jabber Jambalaya Episode 3 is out!
First off, thanks to Cheese and Pot-C for spending their Saturday night with me, and to Longjohn for getting up so early. Here is the result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM9HYPOtZyc Once it syncs to PeerTube, I will update this. In the meantime, you can check https://dalek.zone/c/cc_community_music_awards/videos to see if it has synced. If it doesn’t sync after a… Read.