Some additional reading August 23rd from 20:00 to 20:55:
- Lyle Lovett Never Made a Dime on Record Sales – "Lyle Lovett has sold 4.6 million albums in the United States since 1991, but
“I’ve never made a dime from a record sale in the history of my record deal. I’ve been very happy with my sales, and certainly my audience has been very supportive. I make a living going out and playing shows.”
“Records are very powerful promotional tools to go out and be able to play on the road, but you do have to think about it as a way of sustaining itself at some point. I’m very excited about being able to do some of that on my own, maybe.”
Crazy. Lyle Lovett is high profile enough, where does all the cash go? Wheat grass smoothies? - Confessions of a blogger – Roger Ebert's Journal – Ebert gets a little mea, and misty-eyed, about the blogosphere.
"Now I know I was wrong. I started this blog in May, and it has enriched my life. I have been astonished by the high quality of the comments received. I have also been educated, amused, moved, corrected, encouraged. I personally read all the comments that are submitted, and after four months I have received not one obscene message, not one illiterate message, not one hostile message. Those few comments I have not published were not dumb or offensive, but simply things like well-wishes that I didn't think most readers would be interested in."