Comments on: Online Music Fan Community Powerpoint

By: Toni

Toni — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:39:03 +0000

It seems that an internet fansite has brought me to this blog! Your powerpoint pdf address was posted on a fansite, as something to read about the relationship of fans,fansites and the celebrity. I found it a very fascinating presentation, and I find it amusing that I got to read it because of a fansite post. This just goes to show you, your point about the far-reaching abilities of the internet fan is very true! BTW, the post was on a fansite forum at http://www.teammigayesa.com, in the area called Lola’s. I do think, though, that you must register to get into that particular thread. And being a part of that fansite and fanbase, I can truly appreciate all that your post said.

By: Nancy Baym

Nancy Baym — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:34:15 +0000

I told them they could see that you had been listening to “that great Scandinavian artist, Willie Nelson” which, after a processing pause, got a pretty good laugh.

Feel free to mention on IAT if you think readers might be interested.

By: Avi

Avi — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:09:56 +0000

thanks for sharing this! funny to see that screenshot of my last.fm playlist of a day when I was listening to nothing but Willie Nelson.

By: Nancy Baym

Nancy Baym — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:09:41 +0000

I am a Mac user but so far have found Keynote incredibly nonintuitive and haven’t wanted to take the time to learn it.

By: Jean

Jean — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:02:37 +0000

Great presentation, Nancy – it brings a lot of the threads around contemporary online music communities together very clearly. It’s also reassuring to see you came to the same conclusions about “sharing powerpoints without sharing powerpoints” as I did. Long live the PDF!

As an aside, if you ever come over to the Mac side of the Force, Keynote is what I use to share slides, with notes, and over here this is a very trivial thing to do. ;-)

By: Andy Aldridge

Andy Aldridge — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:31:09 +0000

Thanks for that, it made a very interesting read (as always). I must admit the development of the “fan” since the mid 90s has been astounding. Before the Internet I was little more than a consumer of music – I went to gigs, I bought the records. I joined a fanclub or two but they never really seemed more than a marketing tool and fostered little in the way of community. The Internet enabled me to take my natural desires to evangelise and to archive and has given them a home and a use. The discovery that there were others (lots of others!) with similar interests and a desire to “commune” around those interests…sometimes the thought just makes me gasp out loud.

The first time Luna played London (1991) I went on my own, the last time they played (2005) I met friends from France, USA, Australia, Ireland…and had a beer with the band afterwards…

God I love the Internet, I hope the big boys don’t fuck it up.