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St. Malo, France (unrelated to the post)

Velvet Blues recently blogged on the trend towards shorter posts in the blogosphere. I can relate to this trend having not written a jot for more than a month. I just know that my legions of fans have been waiting with baited breath for the next installment – AND HERE IT IS.

I had a month off over Xmas and New Year, which included a week camping, a week in Byron and some quality time with my brother who was visiting from the UK.

I am keen to get the blog up and running and maybe shorted observational posts is the way forward. I often think about posts but struggle to find the time to extract them from my head. It didn’t help that the iBurst network went down (as a result of Commander’s bankruptcy), taking my Chilli Internet access with it. The offered me a discounted 24 month contract with 3 but my instincts told me that that would be pretty lame. So I moved over to ADSL with Telstra, which I am happy with so far.

I just learnt that Telstra acquired the iBurst’s wireless spectrum. Telstra is expected to wrap it up in cotton wool and hide it away to prevent any competitive activity – nice.

So here are some of the random thoughts that I thought would make nice topics for blog posts:

Music habits are changing – bands are coming and going very quickly as a result of the Web and iPOD phenomenon. Mass audience band loyalty/ affinity is a thing of the past (no ‘r’). The big mega bands are in decline, the future of music will be dominated by fly by nights – one hit wonders if you like that can pick up a small niche audience quickly and then fade from view for the next hot thing. This story tends to contradict my synopsis however…
‘My following is bigger than yours’ discussions are boring! I’ve been witness to almost relentless toing and froing from prominent personalities on Twitter about the size of their followings. It’s what you do with it guys.
I think it would be interesting to have a blog in Australia on the topic of the media landscape.
Its interesting to see celebrities jumping on to Twitter (Stephen Fry, Jonathon Woss, Paris, Britney (yes we are on first name terms)). I get a lot of value from Twitter. I think my follows have reached a critical mass.
I thought a lot about a post on potential business models for Twitter. That one might actually happen.
Social media monitoring tools have come a long way in the last 12 months (we’ve trialled loads) but there are still some big holes. This is an exciting area.

So there you go – some very succint posts. Watch this space.

Oh, and this blog needs a re-vamp. A friend described it as ‘cluttered’ – it’s been bugging me because he’s right. I work in PR so its all about style over substance *joke.