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Re: Video: AoIRing Your Thoughts

Nancy — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 23:05:40 -0000

Thank you Kevin for doing this! I agree it captures the feel of the event very well. And fear not, organizers are listening, though bringing the costs down is an ideal that's a lot harder to realize than one might think.

Re: Q&A with iLike’s Ali Partovi, on Facebook

Nancy — Wed, 30 May 2007 12:32:17 -0000

Very nice interview. My question is how many of the FB users adding the iLike platform are new iLike users, and how many were already using iLike. I also wonder how much they benefited from Last.fm's absence, and what will happen when Last.fm gets their application on there.

Re: A Chronic Shortage of Music Managers

Nancy — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:29:00 -0000

I'll tell you why this person who did get out of bed thinking "I want to be a band manager" for many years changed her mind.

It took about three evenings backstage at big rock concerts with friends who were getting very famous. I never had any troubles with musicians, but just about every record biz man I ran into (to say nothing of the security) approached me with a blatant "so which one are you sleeping with?" attitude (answer was "none").

I have never been one to let sexism hold me back, but I was not up for a career in which fighting it was going to be a daily requirement. I admire the women who do stick it out in that business, but decided I'd rather be in a career where assumption #1 wasn't "she's a sex toy."

Re: Multiple Levels of Engagement for Musicians

Nancy — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:18:07 -0000

The forthcoming last.fm update has an 'events' component where musicians (and others) can input events and they will automatically get recommended to everyone who listens to that band within a radius from home that they (the user) specify. Just another little piece for a big puzzle.

Re: Using communities for marketing

Nancy — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:58:44 -0000

Thanks Nic for covering this. To fill in the link -- the paper can be found at my blog here:

http://www.onlinefandom.com/archives/fan-labor-...

There are many studies of fan communities, but few that focus on issues of fan labor. A special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Studies is due out next year which will include the final version of this paper along with others addressing this topic.

Also a great resource, if you don't already know it, is the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT run by Henry Jenkins (http://www.convergenceculture.org). The people involved in that (myself included) deal a lot with these issues.

Cheers,
Nancy Baym