http://www.kyrareed.com I Know Music and Web 2.0 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:32:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nic Adler, owner of The Roxy Theatre, talks Social Media in this month's issue of iProng Magazine.  It is an excellent article on how he has used the concepts and tools of the medium to keep his business thriving and rebuild the music community on the Sunset Strip. Congratulations on ... http://www.kyrareed.com/the-roxy-featured-in-iprong-magazine-talking-social-media/ Yesterday was transition day...the backpacks and pocket protectors of Interactive faded away and has been replaced with skinny jeans and cigarettes.  Hallelujah!  Music is here at last.  Interactive was a great time.  Made some new friends, saw a chilling film about a war photographer called "The Blood Trail" and went ... http://www.kyrareed.com/sxsw-09-day-one/ The brilliant minds of Platinum Blue Music have taken their Xray machine and turned it into a new service for musicians and music industry professionals. Music Xray Introduction From the website: "Music Xray will use music information retrieval science to enable Music Industry Professionals to create dynamic, high-speed music filters ... http://www.kyrareed.com/music-xray-how-to-pull-industry-attention-to-your-songs/ I am very excited to share with you the latest news from the Roxy Theatre's social media success story! Nic Adler, owner of the Roxy Theatre, made the cover of Nightclub and Bar, the leading trade rag for venue and bar owners. "How The Roxy Regained Relevance ... http://www.kyrareed.com/the-roxy-theatre-on-cover-of-nightclub-and-bar/ This story from Boing Boing: "Ars Technica's Julian Sanchez takes a long, investigative look at the entertainment industry's claim that piracy costs the American economy 750,000 jobs and $250 billion and discovers the truth: they made it up and repeated it until they forgot they had made it up."  Read More... Is ... http://www.kyrareed.com/entertainment-industry-made-up-250-billion750000-jobs-losses-due-to-piracy/ Yesterday around 4:30 I was working at home with Marjorie and my sister Alex. We heard a popping and a bang coming from upstairs. We weren't sure what it was and almost chose to ignore it. I walked to the back door and saw water coming into ... http://www.kyrareed.com/fire-on-laguna/ Earlier today an electrical fire started in the apartment above mine. 7 fire trucks and 30 firemen put the fire out and an enormous hole in the roof. My apartment is intact, but the extent of the water damage has yet to be determined. I'm not sure yet, what I'm ... http://www.kyrareed.com/fire/ I could hardly wait to see Tim O’Reilly, the man who is credited with coining the term Web 2.0, give his keynote on Wednesday. I expected to hear about cutting edge innovations in business models, groundbreaking developments in software, and the effect that Web 2.0 is having on the ... http://www.kyrareed.com/web-20-expo-schwaggin-wagon-day-two/ Two weeks ago I was invited to participate in a PR stunt called the “Schwaggin’ Wagon” at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. I was more than happy to accept, the conference has been on my radar for three years now and the opportunity to attend was ... http://www.kyrareed.com/web-20-expo-the-schwaggin%e2%80%99-wagon-and-day-one-of-the-expo/ Reputation Management is a crucial element in online branding. A Google search of your name or product can tell you quite a bit about what is being said about you, who is saying it and why. Unless you are a real asshole, you shouldn't be afraid of what ... http://www.kyrareed.com/kyrareedcom-in-the-blogosphere/