The other day I came across another amazing example of how the web enables a kind of extreme networked fandom that leaves the product economy sucking fumes. See if you aren’t as amazed as I was…
Doing some musical surfing I happened on a forum for Morrissey’s many dedicated fans. The thread I landed on began [...]

Thanks to Mitch Joel, I found out that musician David Usher has just started a blog called “Cloudid”. He wrote in his initial post that when he’s not head-deep in a song, he spends “too much of his time reading and thinking about the ever-changing crossroads of art, tech, intellectual property and the digital domain… [...]

Recently, WIRED founding editor Kevin Kelley posted an excellent article arguing that an artist needs only 1,000 true fans to start building a viable economy. I’d like to expand on his piece a bit…
This is an extremely important idea in this day and age, when connecting with fans - no matter how dispersed and remote [...]

Would you believe that way back in 1995, there was a magazine article about a guy named Peter Gotcher, suggesting that …
In addition to recording and editing on the cheap, musicians are only a high-speed Net connection away from being in the music distribution business. “What would make this a better world is if the [...]

Mark Evans is a blogger and journalist who writes an awful lot on the Web in all its permutations, and his recent post “Nothing else is working! Time for a tax” really hit home for those of us involved with 76fanclubs.
Evans starts off by arguing that the music industry has essentially “blown the last decade [...]