Eight Recent Social and Technical Phenomena

Over at our sister blog Music Think Tank, there are two new posts up.  One is from Chris Taylor, a co-founder of MicControl, a music blogging network, on the 11 must-have iPhone apps for the musician
on-the-go. The other, from Bruce Warila, is on the eight recent social and technical phenomena that are making your music the only thing that matters to your success.

From The Essay: "[Prior] to becoming popular, you could choose to have no website, no Facebook fan page, no widgets, no videos, no album, no twitter, no centralized location on the Internet, and never do much of anything on the Internet that could be called self-promotion, and that your fans can and could effortlessly do everything for you now; including the recording and the distribution of your music."