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This is rubbish. As Charlie Brooker stated, if you can do the idea yourself DO. Put it on Youtube, make them come to you. As soon as you go to them they will b
by Quarrelsome 17y ago
This is rubbish. As Charlie Brooker stated, if you can do the idea yourself DO. Put it on Youtube, make them come to you.
As soon as you go to them they will be changing your idea, suggesting you wear a cowboy hat and you wont have a strong bargaining position to resist.
- fh 17y agoIn a way, Youtube is a bigger filter now than any of the suggestions in the article. There are so many videos on Youtube, so many upcoming artists performing there, that most of them hardly get any attention at all. If you're popular on Youtube, you're already ahead of a lot of competition.
- sivers 17y agoI agree it's mostly rubbish now. I wrote that article in 2001, when “The Wisdom of Crowds” was not really in effect online yet. Still, in many places in the music industry, an artist is taken much more seriously when they are represented by a company (whether label, agency, manager, etc) - that communicates that the artist is not just one of the 2 million amateurs on MySpace. That subtle difference in perception and image actually changes how people listen. Read this great Brian Eno quote about that: http://musicthoughts.com/t/112 http://musicthoughts.com/t/112
- 10ren 17y agoThe article is misdated, as "2007-08-18" The general principle still seems relevant, of relishing obstacles and difficulties because they discourage the competition. Although we don't have "yes/no" filters today, don't influencers have a role - like what youtube highlights etc? Or do these have relatively little effect, compared to the spontaneous, organic, emergent, collective choices of crowds?
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