Wake up and smell the evidence.
I am as guilty as most webheads of assuming that the rest of the world knows as much about new web technologies as I do. I often find myself being astounded by talk of CD players and record companies as if these were relics of a lost era. Eventually I turn to tell this story to my friends and realise I’m alone with a laptop. Again.
I was getting carried away with the enchanting world of Social Media and reading a little too much into the Twitter song’s meteoric rise to Youtube’s bargain bin. I needed to find out what I was supposed to be doing in the real world. So I asked. My wonderful newsletter readers took time out of their busy days to fill out a survey for me, and I present the results to you here, as a reminder that most of the world doesn’t give a fig that you have just signed up to twenty three more websites and figured out how to watch yourself recording demos in the future live on your phone.
You’re smart people, and you can read your own interpretations into the data. I will only point out that the top answers feature words like CD, shop, radio, and friends. So let’s not get carried away with our web-savvy muso selves.
UPDATE: The best way to look at this is to view the full screen slideshow on Flickr. Or just click on a graph below.
![50/90 [I’m writing 50 songs in 90 days!]](http://www.ihatemornings.com/wp-content/themes/grid_focus_public2/images/button-5090.png)
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alice hive
I also assume that a lot of people aren’t that web-savvy at all. No one of my friends or relatives uses twitter or rss feeds and a big part of them has never heard of any of these technologies. I’m from Germany so I don’t know how much my experiences can speak for your world. (at least there seem to be more people who are familiar with twitter) ;)
Nov 19th, 2008
Heather M
You are so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so (did i mention “so”) right here.Yeah, I am jumping up and down to hear you say it. I’ve been doing a little survey of my own, asking teens about all kinds of music stuff, and based on the my results so far, age is no guarantee that someone is interested in searching out ye new obscure music website.
You, sir, have made my day. Really, I lay awake at night thinking about this stuff. Ben Walker, I salute you.
Dec 5th, 2008
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