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Articles related to the development of the social network phenomenon

I'm sure you've all heard of crowdsourcing by now, but it really does seem to be the intersection of social networking & artistic entrepreneurship. Perhaps this will be how everything is funded in the future ?

This is great to know about...I am definitely going to explore this for projects that I am working on currently.

Joe Poleto is the founder of Blue Rose Music. Prior to joining Microsoft, Joe was Vice President of National Advertising Sales for HBO. Where Joe played an important role in the network launch and in growing revenues.

Eric Whitacre, composer and conductor, leads a virtual choir. It started when a young woman posted a fan video on YouTube singing the soprano part from one of his works. That gave him the idea to have people upload recordings on YouTube so as to sing together in a virtual choir-a network of YouTube connected singers, each singing different parts. Whitacre's website: http://ericwhitacre.com/the-virtual-choir

Joss Whedon bypassed Hollywood and the traditional distribution network by making his newest movie a $5 download on Vimeo.