DISQUS

All know is that I've taken to tumblr much more naturally than any of the other social web ideas... not quite sure why yet, but there's a sense of building your own circle of influence - reinforced by 'reblogs' and 'likes' (thumbs up) - as well as the ability to brand your own space in ways that don't exist with twitter or facebook or friendfeed. Of course, myspace has allowed this for years now, but there are very few Designers with beautiful myspace pages (at least in my experience)... on the other hand, every single day I come across another tumblr user who offers a unique and top flight approach to their personally cultivated collection of web miscellany.

Great conversation, insights, and info, Tim. You and Derek are both such inspiring guys... thanks for sharing your stories and lessons learned.

Much continued success!

Very nice, mate! No matter how many online presences we acquire, it's good to have a place called 'home' where they can all be linked, eh?.

I think the new look is great... to be honest, your previous design did nothing to bring me by regularly, I just kept getting updates at Twitter and RSS. Now I'll stop by more often. :)

RSS was integral to the design of our new music licensing website, Burst Labs.

Of course, using a niche technology in a micro-niche business field is probably not the most efficient use of our time and money, but we wanted to do something really forward thinking. Mission accomplished (for those who Get It, anyway).

And, personally, RSS changed everything about how I get my daily info. I don't understand how more people aren't on board yet. But that's okay... being a leader in a micro-niche is a good place to be for our biz.

I'm absolutely driven by my fear of failure and the recognition that I have virtually no marketable skills other than music production.

I learn as much as I can about marketing (and love your site and insights, btw!) and other aspects of the business world so I don't end up digging ditches someday instead of writing and licensing music.

Fantastic insight and ideas... we're certainly trying to incorporate all of your last paragraph in our music licensing website, Burst Labs, and the results have been promising.

It definitely takes more work trying to be both different and valuable to clients. Thanks for the challenge!