[atlantaprog] Re: New paradigms for working musicians

Hmm. I thought I'd included the NY Times tagline, but I realize now it was prob. a graphic, and thus was stripped away by the listserv!
One thing they didn't mention was Second Life - which shows promise of becoming another major component of the new indi paradigm. Ignore it at your peril! 

On May 16, 2007, at 7:00 PM, Wheat Williams wrote:
The article that was forwarded had no attribution. "Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog," the story about Jonathan Coulton, was from the New York Times.
This has got to be one of the all-time most blogged-about newspaper articles in entertainment. It was really fascinating. I happened to read it two days before Allen put it on this email list, but I'm glad he posted it. There's so much to discuss here.
A book publishing company has asked me to develop an outline for a book for independent artists managing their career online, and I'm writing the outline this week. This article made me think about a lot of things, and see some things in a new light.
Obviously, there are very few aritsts out there, like Jonathan Coulton, who could quit their day job and have a financially successful career solely as a result of being on MySpace. But it's very exciting to see a whole new type of musical career emerging from the use of the new technology (sometimes called "Web 2.0").
It just reminds me that everything I learned in my music business degree program circa 1997 is obsolete now. 

Wheat Williams
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