Jonathan Coulton, a Day in the Life 68
The New York Times is running a look behind the scenes with singer/songwriter Jonathan Coulton, creator the somewhat popular "Thing a week" songs on his blog. Coulton describes a bit of how he got started and what daily life is like maintaining relations with his fans. "Along the way, he discovered a fact that many small-scale recording artists are coming to terms with these days: his fans do not want merely to buy his music. They want to be his friend. And that means they want to interact with him all day long online. They pore over his blog entries, commenting with sympathy and support every time he recounts the difficulty of writing a song. They send e-mail messages, dozens a day, ranging from simple mash notes of the "you rock!" variety to starkly emotional letters, including one by a man who described singing one of Coulton's love songs to his 6-month-old infant during her heart surgery. Coulton responds to every letter, though as the e-mail volume has grown to as many as 100 messages a day, his replies have grown more and more terse, to the point where he's now feeling guilty about being rude."
Who? (Score:0, Funny)
100 messages a day? (Score:2, Funny)
100 a day? (Score:5, Funny)
And now you've gone and slashdotted the poor fellow. Here come his 15 minutes and there goes all his prexisting fan base.
Re:100 messages a day? (Score:1, Funny)
Seriously, though (well, not really), we'd all do well to not troll Slashdot's human interest stories as much as any news outlet.