I'm Online, But Not Really

01:13 PM July 24 2009
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I recently took Way Cool JR’s online artist report card, and without creating any suspense here...failed miserably. It seems like lately the big challenges for musicians (other than getting gigs and making music, which is something I am also not really totally rising to the occasion of) is presenting themselves online in a clean coherent way everywhere and having their music available to be listened to, purchased, shared, and oh yeah...they need to be actively participating in their various social networks too. Reading other peoples blogs, listening to their podcasts, etc.

All of which leaves me as someone with a bit of an old-school distaste of computer screens (honestly I would rather be practicing or having my kid spit his breakfast back in my face) somewhat at a loss. There’s lots of fun discussion of this by a bunch of bloggers I have in my reader, most notably Andrew Dubbers post about minimizing your time online and Artistdata’s super sweet service that allows me to update my Myspace page with gigs without ever having to go to Myspace.

Generally awesome pianist/composer Andrew Oliver apparently had some things to say about this Web 2.0 thing recently as well. As people gradually figure this stuff out (like do you really want to buy music with a widget?) I think it’ll be easier to be as Dubber puts it “strategically lazy”. In the meantime I’m going back to bed.
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