Jul 31
MySpace & YouTube can make you…
JOHN JURGENSEN has written a great piece in WSJ called Moguls of the New Media. It is good to see a piece on the new online world of entertainment that is written without the normal mocking tone that comes from Late Review type of cultural critic. Futhermore there is not the slightest amount of seething at MySpace because its owned by the eeeevill Murdoch as you so often see when it is mentioned in the MSM.
Granted looking at the list of success stories I do have tinge of frustration that Laurence & I have not been offered a radio show on Sirius yet (Dodge & Simon Show), that Growing Old Disgracefully is not a household name yet and that I don’t have my own TV show…er sorry I digress.
Bands, artist, writers and potential directors are being discovered on MySpace, Garageband, YouTube and some of the other outlets. Long may they continue to do us. The more media coverage, even if it is slighly reluctant, is good for all of us that have sites on any or all of those outlets. The more eyes on the sites mean more potentials for us. Because, a roulette wheel though it may be, there is always a possibility we will get discovered.
Then again thanks to all those sites I have finally got a chance to write a paper for a London-based think-tank.
