I’d be eternally grateful if you could take less than a minute of your time to click the following link and assuming you have a Facebook account “like” the following post:

http://www.facebook.com/AriaPCTechnology/posts/148065325296895

If you’re feeling extra generous please feel free to spread the word and get your friends and colleagues to do the same.

My reason for asking is to help win a competition with Aria, my favourite computer hardware company. If I win, I get £1,000 towards a new PC to satisfy the geeky PC gamer in me. My old PC is now over 3 years old and doesn’t quite cut it for the latest games.

Thank you for helping!

Yes, it’s that time of the year where everyone feels the need to publish lists of their favourite blogs and blog posts in the vain hope that someone will give them links/tweets/kudos. So without further ado, here is mine:

1. Big Brand SEO – Campaigns, Integration and Extended Brand Keywords
2. To Build or not to Build
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Additional positions available at a cost of £100

And I think we’re done here

Dear Recording Artists and Record Labels,

Reading articles like this really gets on my nerves. Spotify, believe it or not, is actually trying to help the music industry, not hinder it.

Get with the times!

People don’t always require the need for a physical copy of music, or indeed like sifting through files and ensuring they have enough space on their computer. Spotify isn’t just a cheap way of getting music, it’s also convenient. It’s probably not for everyone and a lot of people I know wouldn’t do without a download or even a physical copy of the music but for me, it’s perfect. Further to this I probably experiment a lot more with music on Spotify than I normally would, meaning I’m more likely to listen to more artists who I may not otherwise have heard of.

Let’s get down to the maths:

Over the course of a lifetime, I’ll likely listen to your track more than 67 times and will be less inclined to acquire it illegally. In fact, there are plenty of tracks I’ve listened to more than 67 times already from looking at my last.fm stats. Back in my student days, I may have acquired a few albums by dubious means but since Spotify, this has reduced to 0. Support it or just fail miserably.

Note, I don’t actually care about Coldplay or Adele. I’d rather poke myself in the eye than listen to that miserable so-and-so or warbling, overplayed, woman.

Love from,

Richard