TheCapitalClinic

Working Premises of TheCapitalClinic [Or Why We Are All Here] - Updated May 12, 2008 at 12:30 pm to add Lesson 26, What Is Excellence and How Do You Find It?] to follow recent additions on Your Sweet Spots of Web-Time: Reputation and Attention and Social Capital Wants To Be Measured..

My Color Code: Blue = My Blogs – Green = Other Fuzz Friends and/or Blogs/Vids/Pics – Red = Outside Sources (but don’t hold me to it, sometimes color just means “click here”); and approximate date of posting in [brackets]

1. Social Capital, which arise out of intangible Value Networks anyone can establish, will become Tangible Capital.
2. Music Matters – it is the glue that keeps it all together.
3. The Fuzz Manifesto will energize us through collective action on a common technology platform.

For me, fuzz represents a collective experiment on the part of Artists, Fans, and Facilitators to establish the Truth-Values of the foregoing by coalescing as a new breed of entrepreneurs in search of Virtual Capital in the modern era.

In a game-changing digital environment, there is no substitute for personal engagement to make incremental differences. Based upon facts and ideas found on this site and elsewhere, I will thus (i) create a “Value Index” linked to my Fuzz pages and (ii) do my utmost to help Fuzz Artists/Friends/Facilitators discover their own abiding values.

I will address how I see actual values materializing unconventionally by – (1) empowering “Micro-Businesses” through increased connectivity and trust; (2) re-aligning Market Mechanisms and the meaning of Cottage Industries [“2.0”] to better result; (3) building new forms of Brand Equity; and (4) Broadening the Base of revenue-sharing, at the punctuated Edge of Chaos where Markets Clear.*

Join me in this value-creating experiment in real time. It will be a worthwhile adventure to define for ourselves the new frontiers of the possible in both music and capital formation in the digital era of the Long Tail.

SITE CONTENT AND INDEX
My site content will be “ad hoc,” sometimes serious or whimsical, and will evolve as everything else in life, but hopefully for the better. To that end, I will continue to update everything that I do on this site as an iterative process [for example, see a “Wiki-Review” to create wiki-capital], by refining and polishing my profile, blogs, reviews, playlists, everything. The web is organic and dynamic, but most individual websites are static. Most pay homage to the power of the web, but lack DIY Commitment to create incremental value through Increased Artist/Fan Interactivity . Without your incremental content and the audacity of your ambition, Chance Has No Leverage. So, energize your Fuzz Linkages.
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DISCLOSURES: (a) What Do I Do At TheCapitalClinic? and (b) Who Am I?.

1. Nightschool for Entrepreneurs
Earn an MBR [Master of Business Reality] Rather Than an MBA [Master of Business Administration] [11/14]
Commencement Day at the Nightschool[9/3]
Here’s How My Own Learning Curve Started At Nightschool [8/13]
Lesson 1: Creating/Destroying Brand Equity [9/6] - A Better Solution [9/6]
Lesson 2: The Power of Branding [9/10]
Lesson 3: Just Do It! [9/13]
Lesson 4: Art From the Inside and the Outside [9/18]
Lesson 5: What Is The Viral Element Of The Elusive “Viral Marketing”? [9/18]
Lesson 6: Finding Gumption, Soul, and Street-Cred In The Music Business Model of The Future [9/22]
Lesson 7: Introduction to the “Micro-Business Model” [9/23]
Lesson 8: On Reorganizing Micro Labels/Business Managers For Survival [9/30]
Lesson 9: On the Establishment of a New Fuzz Music Collective [10/8]
Lesson 10: Web-filters and New “A & R-mies” in Music Ecosystem II [10/10]
Lesson 11: A Primer On Long-Tails [10/17]
Lesson 12: On The Beginnings of a New Music Business Model [10/20]
Lesson 13: Trust Your Fans [10/23]
Lesson 14: It’s All About Marketing and Distribution [10/29]
Lesson 15: Finding “Heads Within Heads” In The Long Tail [12/2]
Lesson 16: Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists – and Megastars [12/18]
Lesson 17: Lefsetz on The Road From Here[01/18/08]
Lesson 18: Baby-Steps In Artist/Fan Collaboration Comes First [01/22/08]
Lesson 19: A Case Study of Artist/Fan Interactivity In Wiki-Reviews To Add Value In The Web-Based Era [01/27/08]
Lesson 20: On Reaching Out For Your Own Third Ear And That Of Your Fans [01/29/08]
Lesson 21: Lefsetz On “Belonging” [02/08/08]
Lesson 22: The Making Of An Artist Collective: Working Together Can Still Be “Cool” [02/14/08]
Lesson 23: On Finding A Better Music Discovery Tool (and in the process, Improve Your Odds For Being Discovered Without SPAMMING) [02/22/08]
Lesson 24: Identity And Voice On The Web [03/09/08]
Lesson 25: Your Sweet Spots of Web-Time: Reputation and Attention [04/12/08]
Lesson 26: What Is Excellence and How Do We Find It?[05/12/08]

2. How Musicians Survive and Thrive
How Artists and Fuzz Interact [8/18]
E-merging Labels [8/15]
How To Make A Small Pile Of [Virtual] Money Into A Larger Pile Of [Real] Money: Niche + Leverage = $ [4/6]
Thinking Digitally and “Making Money”, Somehow [7/23]
”Gig Math”-Part I [6/15]
On Minimizing Transaction Costs: An Artist’s Personal Tool-kit For Survival [8/7]
The [In]famous Albini “Problem With Music” Article [classic]
Life as a Musician: Be a Lion [8/19]
Maureen: On Finding Great Band Managers
*It's Time: Who/Where/How? - Part 1
*Is Experience Necessary? - Part 2
*What do they do? - Part 3
*What's It Gonna Cost? - Part 4
*Will They Find Me When I Need One? - Parts 5 and 6
A Dose of Reality [8/31]

3. The Music Ecosystem Now and Tomorrow
A Story of The Phenom and The Working Musician [8/30]
Honor Given For Honor Received [8/8]
Why The Old System Is Structurally and Morally Bankrupt [3/27]
A Comprehensive Survey on the Future of the Music Industry; But No Answers [9/26]
Radiohead: Perhaps A Breakthrough In “Ritual Honor” [10/01]
Social Capital Wants To Be Measured [04/12/08]

4. Some Sunday Kinda Thoughts
The Segmented Society And The Power Of Music [12/02]
What Happens To Us When We Listen To Music? [9/14]
Music: Becoming And Being In The Web-Based Era [01/29/08]
All The World’s A Stage and We Are All Players [9/9]
The Resurrection of Trust in Music [9/2]
On the History of Ideas, Power Laws, and Music Uprising [8/26]
”Massive Change” and MusicWithoutBorders [8/5]
Why Fuzz Is My Home: A Second Chance [7/22]
”Now Is The Time” For Music To Show Us The Way [11/10]

5. Blogs on Fuzz and/or MySpace
Technical Specs [6/29]
Just Kidding Around [4/26]
MySpace Suicide and Not Either/Or [8/9]
Stages of Development [7/6]
10,000 Page Views, 400 Friends, Network Energy, and Why It Matters [8/20]
The Rosetta Stone to Demystify the Mysterious[8/22]

6. Pretty Funny Stuff/Whimsy
What Is It About Sharks and Bloggers? [6/11]
Are You Hot or Cool, or Not? [7/30]
A “10 Reasons” List/What’s Yours? [4/15]

VIDEOS I LIKE [Most of these were found through my Fuzz Friends]

Imogen Heap Acapella/Electronica [5/5]
KU Almost Made Me Cry[5/6]
I Finally Get Bjork! [7/15]
A Pure Life of 10,005 Days, The Soldier Song, and Mothers Everywhere [8/2;6/18]
Mahavisnu and Ten Minutes of Transformational Jazz [8/31]
Das Vibenbass in Studio [9/3]
MJQ: Percy Heath [9/6]
B-rad video on Medeski Martin & Wood, jazz big time [9/9]
Joe Zawinul/Weather Report play “Birdland” [9/18]

MY HIT-PARADE [Stuff discovered and evolving...like life]
Refer To and Launch My Playlists – For Now

1. My Jazz Favs [so far]
2. Americana Mix [mostly country and folk]
3. World/Electronica [tell me more about this]
4. Easy Listenin’/Epic [good way to enhance surfin’ and bloggin’]
5. Punk/Metal [I’m climbing a steep learning curve but loving it; help me out here]
6. Just Great Music [the more you help me to discover, the better this list will become]

RANDOM PICS OF PEOPLE I’VE MET HERE [ONLY PART OF THE FUZZ GLUE FAMILY TO BIND US ALL]
Sarah Bettens and Abigail – Here at the Beginning
Beradley - One of the Best Pathfinders Here and an Experimental Artist
bossbass – Mr. Cool and a Musician that “Gets it”
Miss Bella and Sugar Cube: What a pair, they cheer us up – once they learn BBcode, it’s ovah for us
Maureen: Glam shot of one smart Fuzz Musician all Artists can learn from
Someone Even Likes TheCapitalClinic!
[I’m just getting started – help me out here]

MORE RANDOM CRAZY/FUN STUFF/GREAT BLOGS/NEWS TIDBITS/EVERYTHING!

Wall Street Journal Article on “Past-their-Prime” Bands [8/24]
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and A Note To My Sons [7/28]
Ryan first posted this – “No Way! Video
Hooked on LOST
Will Benham’s Reportage of the Bandwidth Conference – Day One and Two [8/20-21]
Very Political, Very Clever, Got a Chuckle

Note: This is still a work-in-process while waiting for the Fuzz folks to incorporate some common LINKS and TAGS. In the meantime, everyone here, please learn BBcode**; it takes about five minutes. Bulletin Board Code will change your life on the web forever. One important note, save your evolving Value Index Profile to Word because the "Edit Profile" seems to randomly revert to earlier dated Profiles and you may lose the most recent version if you don't save it somewhere to re-paste as you "update" your page! [I think the new Profile becomes fixed only after the unique visitor session ends. For now, the safest way to update is to revise your Word file first and paste it in the Edit Profile box each time you change or add to the “Living Value Index” or whatever you want to call it]. Once the basic template is set up, changes and additions become easy. This is great fun and could be one of the most important things I ever do at thecapitalclinic.

* Thecapitalclinic: “Everything is an Arbitrage; But Time and Process are Everything.”
**Here are some common BBcode tags and their HTML [Hyper-Text Markup Language] equivalents. Once established, the BBcode format reflected in your Profile grows like Topsy.