I spend most of my day at work either listening to the radio (mostly some form or another of Minnesota Public Radio) or music. Over the last couple of days MPR has had a couple of bits that seem to intersect the fringes of my thoughts and wishes regarding fandom. I'm afraid there are no transcripts only real audio files.
One, from the show segment
http://news.mpr.org/programs/futuretense/ about
Musiclink going non-Profit. I like the concept of Musiclink, which provides what is basically a pay pal-like connection between musicians and fans, but unfortunately I don't think it's a paradigm that will ultimately succeed. While I do have issues with some aspects of the current theory of intellectual property, seeing folks get paid for what they have created is not one of them. Or rather it is. I'm for it.
The
other one that caught me was Kurt Anderson speaking on the nature of the amateur spirit which made me think of much of what I like about fandom and about much of what I miss in fandom's source material.