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This is lovely: Amanda Palmer plays a ukulele anthem at Neil Gaiman’s University of the Arts lecture about his fantastic recently released book of advice on the creative life.

Complement with Palmer on the art of asking without shame – one of the most moving TED talks of all time.

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When we really see each other, we want to help each other. I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is, ‘How do we make people pay for music?’ What if we started asking, ‘How do we let people pay for music?’

Amanda Palmer on the art of asking and the shared dignity of giving and receiving

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how do we run around on the vast field of the internet without being crippled and disfigured by the landmines of hatred that are waiting under every shrub, while still managing to sow the seeds of love, art and awesomeness that blossom ever-greenly?

The ever-thoughtful Amanda Palmer on internet hatred.