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 [...]

Following our introductory event in Ottawa, 76fanclubs was in Toronto recently to meet with some fine singer-songwriters, bands and even performance poets who were there to learn about what we have to offer musicians. We spent a couple of hours huddled up together at the fabulous 215 Centre for Social Innovation, on Spadina north of [...]