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New Music Business Models

This needs to be us:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.09/nettwerk.html?pg=1&topic=nettwerk&topic_set=

How to get heard

This first article is about a world famous violinist named Joshua Bell and an experiment conducted where he played his multimillion dollar Stradivarius violin in a busy Washington train station to see what would happen. Would people recognize this amazing art or would they just walk by?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html

This second article gives a theory about what happened, and talks about the things that you need to consider to catch someones attention when you only have a few seconds to do it.

http://www.grep.be/blog/2007/06/25/#joshua_bell

Off Topic Post:

I read this today and it kind of lit me up. This is part of who I want to be.

The Warrior Creed By Robert L. Humphrey(Iwo Jima Marine)
Wherever I go, everyone is a little bit safer because I am there.
Wherever I am, anyone in need has a friend.
Whenever I return home, everyone is happy I am there.

Another article, dealing specifically with musical talent.

http://geniusblog.davidshenk.com/2007/01/more_on_musical.html

I really want to spend some time thinking about this, and figuring out what my/our response should be. A renewed commitment to practice, obviously, but how to do so in a way that makes each practice session productive, and leading to that constant improvement, rather than plateauing and doing the same things over and over again.