RTP-area local music and culture

[Ross Grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Heh. I'm pretty sure we already built & hosted our own music ibiblio 
site, back in ~1994. It was called NC Meme (Multimedia Exhibition of 
Musicians and Entertainers, or something like that) & I don't think it's 
archived anywhere. It was the first HTML I ever touched.

Based on my own anecdotal evidence (i.e. a couple of hours a week spent 
checking venue websites & etc), a heartening number of bands have 
already bailed on MySpace, for the greener pastures of Reverbnation or 
Bandcamp. A small but growing number of them even own their own domains 
(shock! horror! after only a decade or so!)

Ross

On 11/04/2010 02:50 PM, Monkey Boy wrote:
> I'm not saying the webservice is going to be shut down today, tomorrow or
> next month. However, you may want to check on other means of getting your
> bands noticed.
>
> http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2010/11/myspace-has-quartersnot-years-to-rebound-news-corp-exec-says/1
>
>
> Some quotes from the article:
>
> "We've been clear that MySpace is a problem," [News
> Corp<http://gawker.com/tag/newscorp/>.
> COO Chase] Carey told Wall Street analysts in an earnings call. "The current
> losses are not acceptable or sustainable."
>
> He says he's optimistic about MySpace's new focus on social entertainment.
>
> But with traffic numbers that "are not going in the right direction," Carey
> wants to see "a clear path to profitability" on a timetable measured "in
> quarters, not in years."
>
>
> Now if Google would just hurry up and select Raleigh, Durham or Chapel Hill
> as the new high-speed network town, we could build and host our own music
> ibiblio site.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> mbt