Sue and I saw Richard Thompson on Thursday night. He co-founded Fairport Convention, the seminal Brit folk revival band, in the 60’s, and has been performing ever since.

This show was titled ‘1000 Years of Popular Music.’ Ably backed by Judith Owen on keyboard and vocals and Debra Dobkin on percussion and vocals, they did everything from 13th century madrigals through sea shantys, Gilbert and Sullivan, labor union songs, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Kinks, American Folk, Cole Porter, Nat King Cole, opera, Squeeze, and closing with “Oops I did it again” by Britney, the music of which he said was indistinguishable from a 16th century dance tune.

The astounding thing was - it wasn’t imitative and they weren’t doing covers. They took the songs and made them their own. That they were able to do such a multitude of styles so effortlessly demonstrates their love of the music and their stone cold professionalism. It was a great night.

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A client who I’d lost contact with just tracked me down and has lots of new business for me. They found me by googling my specialty and up popped my business website.

I specifically tailor one page on that site so it can be googled easily by a business trying to find someone with my specific expertise.

Here’s how I do it:

Googling my business

(this is on my tech blog, and is a shameless attempt to get you all there and reading it!)

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Here’s a list of some excellent tech blogs that focus on the Net, blogging, and what it all means. Most are written by uber-geeks who know the landscape well, and indeed, may have helped create it. If something new and important is happening on the Net, chances are you’ll read about it first in one of these blogs.

This list is not comprehensive! All the blogs here are well-written, highly informative, and link to cutting-edge stuff you’ll not find elsewhere.

The blogroll on my tech blog lists all of them plus many more, if you’re interested.

Scobleizer
Robert Scoble is “technology evangelist” for Microsoft. He gets paid to blog, has considerable latitude in what he says, and yes, sometimes criticizes his employer. There’s plenty of insight and intelligence here, great links too.

Dave’s WordPress blog
Dave Winer has played a major role in the creation of blogs, RSS, and podcasting. He’s “controversial” and can be brilliant as well as infuriating, sometimes at the same time.

Chris Pirillo
Chris “I never sleep” Pirillo and fiance Ponzi are the organizers of uber-geekfest Gnomedex. They have a gaggle of other sites. This is Chris’ personal blog where he talks tech and whatever. (He also has a sense of humor.)

Jeff Barr’s blog
Jeff is “Web Services Evangelist” for Amazon. Amazing links.

Doc Searls
One of the four authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto, Linux guru, long-time writer, much more.

Om Malik
“About the next generation Internet”

Lorelle on WordPress
This gem of a blog has a wealth of information here on how to blog, focusing on WordPress, but applicable to any blog platform. Lorelle is passionate about blogging, explaining tech issues clearly and understandably.

MicroPersuasion
“Steve Rubel explores how social software is transforming marketing, media and public relations.”

New Media Musing
“Charting the rise of open, democratic, grassroots media” from JD Lasica, author of “Darknet“, founder of OurMedia.org

Techcrunch
“Tracking Web 2.0″

Squash
“Stop here for a Web 2.0 reality check”

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