What We Can Learn From P*Star
When I say “rapper”, what do you think of? Probably not a preteen girl spittin’ rhymes about how she isn’t ready for a boyfriend yet. This documentary might change that.
P*Star Rising is a documentary by Gabriel Noble that follows the growth (literally) of a 9-year-old female rapper from Harlem named Priscilla Diaz, stage [...]
5 Rules for Artists Using Social Media
In my last post, you learned that no one cares how good you are if they don’t know who you are. Social media literacy is an essential skill for all artists to master. And by social media literacy, I don’t mean being able to create a facebook event, or tweet about your breakfast, or add friends [...]
Why Artists Need Social Media
Editor’s Note: I’m happy to welcome Devon Hopkins to Still Indie. He is an undergraduate at a competitive liberal arts university studying social psychology and group dynamics through choreography. He also manages and promotes an a cappella group and a dance troupe. We hope you will enjoy his insights on collaboration and the use [...]
Andy Carvin of NPR On Crowdsourcing at Making Media Now
On Friday I attended Making Media Now 2009, a single day conference for media makers (largely attended by documentary film folk from the Boston Area). MMN09 was a great experience – and I have to recommend that more social media and new media people attend in the future – there were some great filmmakers looking [...]
New Media Showdown at Columbia J-School
On Wednesday, the NY Mag Daily Intel blog posted about the Columbia Journalism School’s struggle to integrate new media skills with an old-school journalism curriculum. Linda Holmes of Monkey See points out that the good dirt is in the comments section, where, of course, a lot of posters claim that the Daily Intel has published information without citing sufficient sources.
Bargain Hunting on Craigslist
What do you still buy on Craigslist? I find it useful for finding apartments and jobs (or gigs), but since Craigslist became a household name, shopping for cheap stuff has been replaced with avoiding the people trying to rip you off.
Now you find things posted above list price rather than below. I wonder if there are [...]
Twitter Shapes Advertising
Forbes has an article, Twitter Moms Sink Motrin Ad, covering the recent events in which general outrage among mothers on Twitter caused Johnson & Johnson to pull its advertising campaign about using Motrin to treat pains from carrying babies.
Image from Twitter.comWould the backlash have gained such momentum so quickly without Twitter? The speed [...]
ABC’s Earth 2100: You, too, can be Al Gore!
Our special agent in New Jersey gave us a tip on a new web and television fusion project from a major network:
Earth 2100 is a “television and internet event” set to debut this fall on ABC [Editor's Note: The site now simply says "Coming in 2009"]. Here’s how they describe it:
The world’s brightest minds [...]
Boston Media Makers: July 6 at Doyle’s
Image by grazrBoston Media Makers is one of the best social networking groups I’ve found since moving out here.
They are an exceedingly welcoming bunch. Everyone sits around a big table, enjoying a hearty breakfast, and presents the group with a new project, new shiny toy, or a question. Then everyone mingles [...]
Metcalfe’s Law
Andrew Chen has a post about Metcalfe’s Law and corollary Eflactem’s Law (M-E-T-C-A-L-F-E backwards, you can probably figure this one out).
“In fact, you see this happen all the time at dinner parties or events. Things are great until one or two people announce the intention to leave. If those folks are fun and entertaining, there’s [...]
