Sep 23
Posted at 10:47 PM on September 23rd, 2009 by Alex
Hey TID folks —
Believe it or not, I AM still alive 
I’ve just shifted off to a new phase of life, and this is my attempt to drag ThatIndieDude.com with me! Bare with me — I think it’s appropriate.
When I started TID, the goal was to focus on encouraging and inspiring independence and creativity. Here’s a quick refresher: Our 21st century world is largely one of just mundane improvements on the same-old-thing. That’s great: we need computers to continually get faster and cars to get better gas mileage. Unfortunately, it’s too pervasive. We also need ground-breaking, paradigm shifting innovation - and I’m afraid we’re too focused on the details to see those game-changing plans.
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Tags: Add new tag, business, entrepreneurship
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Mar 22
Posted at 5:10 PM on March 22nd, 2009 by Alex
Hey everybody!
It’s been a long time with not many updates, but I’m in the process of ramping up to a complete VERSION 2.0 relaunch in APRIL! Woo HOO! We’ll have a renewed focus on promoting independent artists and their work.
In celebration, we’re sponsoring a Twitter SCAVENGER HUNT with a big PRIZE over at Tweet-A-PRIZE! We’re excited, and you should be too. Unfortunately, the deadline is in 2 and a half hours (7:30 PM EST) so run over there and enter NOW!
Oh, and you’ll need this - THE LAST CLUE: Clue #2-10: TID #Tpclue.
Tags: contest, redesign
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Jan 19
Posted at 3:22 AM on January 19th, 2009 by Alex
Sure, I’m biased. I play bass for the band.
That doesn’t change the fact, though, that what we’re trying to do has the chance to have a huge impact on Independent music EVERYWHERE.
Two weeks ago my band, The Eastern Gate, released our first album on Amazon MP3. It had been a long delay, and due to financial reasons we weren’t even able to get the album mastered. We were all out of energy on the project, so the only promotion we did was the day of the release, and amounted to setting up a MySpace page and a Facebook event. We expected maybe a few would notice the event and buy the album. A few did.
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Tags: digital, indie, music, the eastern gate, video
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Jan 19
Posted at 12:14 AM on January 19th, 2009 by Alex
Hey everybody!
It’s a new year, and That INDIE Dude has a new-years resolution: Make supporting indepedent artists and work a NUMBER 1 priority.
This was a no brainer for me — I’ve been having some problems keeping up to date on T.I.D. because of some cognitive conflict on direction. We’ll see if this helps 
Look for updates to come supporting that new direction. We’re going to start interviews & other community dialogs to support independent artists, aim tutorials and roundups DIRECTLY at an independent lifestyle, and help the TID community interact a lot easier so they can use each other as resources. Awesome!
So, stay tuned — the first post in that direction is coming in an hour or two.
Tags: Indie Life
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