One of the biggest challenges facing independent artists today is getting their work in front of as large an audience as possible and, without the money provided by a major record label, this has always been almost impossible. It seems as though the major labels create the music available for radio playlists and small or independent labels are pretty much shut out of that venue.

It is true that, with the evolution of the Internet, indie bands have had access to many new forms of exposure on Myspace and sites such as iTunes. However, none of those tools has given quite the same exposure that good old fashioned radio can. Radio can reach millions of random listeners at any given moment and thereby expose your songs to new audiences who have never heard of your band. With traditional Web sites like Myspace or iTunes you are pretty much limited in the exposure that you get as an artist to your own circle of friends and have to depend on those fans to give you exposure via word of mouth to their friends.

Twitter has created a whole new perspective on social media though. Via Twitter messages you can stay in touch with your friends just like on other networking sites but, unlike other sites, all of your "tweets" (messages) also post on the main twitter site feed. There is the beauty of it. Twitter has something like 6 million registered users with 55 million monthly page views and so posting to the public timeline on Twitter is essentially very much like reaching millions of random members of a radio audience.

Twisten.FM is a creation of the folks at Grooveshark.

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One of them is.....ME :-D

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2005/11/hydrogenen...

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Adding a small amount of hydrogen to your fuel can have dramatic results...

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080709/full/news.2...

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The big countries (who emit most of the greenhouse pollution) decided to cut these emissions by 50% by 2050. Developing nations, who are affected by this pollution, want to set a mark of 80% reduction (for themselves as well as the big 8).

http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/27/news/economy/elect...

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(Fortune Magazine) -- What senators McCain and Obama believe about U.S. energy policy matters - hugely. To fight global warming, the next President will oversee the transition to a new, green economy, which will result in one of the biggest business transformations of the 21st century and potentially one of the largest transfers of wealth

http://current.com/items/89061252_what_is_clean_co...

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Here is my write-up on what the clean coal process is.

http://current.com/items/89039769_half_water_half_...

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This is an on board electrolyzer SCAM and not to be believed.

http://current.com/items/89057164_envisioning_a_wo...

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Ok gas is at 4$ or more a gallon now. If you got half your fuel from water then you would reduce your cost to 2$ per gallon. If you produced the same fuel from coal and water you would reduce your per gallon cost to around .25 cents per gallon. This is all possible with today's technology.

http://www.enn.com/business/article/37497

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On-board steam reformers could accomplish these goals.

http://climateintel.com/2008/06/11/the-rise-fall-a...

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FutureGen is the first commercial use of hydrogen from water on a large scale and for some reason no one seems to care. Maybe people don't realize that you could use this same process to run your car on coal? Maybe coal, at a hundred bucks a ton would be cheaper than gasoline? Um, yeah, it would..