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Good article... thanks for sharing!

Yes, thank you for sharing! I must mention that I enjoyed the elf receptionist from the animated "Code Monkey" video. She's hot! The song was way too Rick Springfeild for me but I liked the animation =o).

Thanks for posting the NYTimes magazine article. The magazine was missing from my Sunday NYTimes and I would have missed the article without your blog.

No doubt the direct Artist-to-Fan phenomenon described in the article was the primary driver for developing the Fuzz site. Fuzz is still in its early Beta days but has great promise. What happens next on the Fuzz site will I assume have both a generic Web 2.0 element and some Fuzz-specific elements.

As the the generic 2.0 element. All online social communities are attempting to generate a self-perpetuating "virtual circle of growth" that results from the interaction of active nodes on a network generating more and more content which in turn generates more and more nodes, which generates more and more content. Thus, for example, those early joiners in the Fuzz network who have generated either pointedly or randomly network CONNECTIVITY by having at least 50 "Friends" [as you, Uzi, and TheCapitalClinic, and many others], start to generate a diverse and pretty interesting buzz that comes from the inter-nodal activity of their direct network connections. Indeed, I have found in the build-up of connections that a combination of 50 active, less active, and largely passive nodes creates a buzz that is "OK", and at 100 "Friends" or nodes on the network, depending on the degree of initimacy the buzz gets even more intriguing. And at 150 connections, it is even better, etc. Thus, as a generic threshold matter, all of us who care about nurturing the growing Fuzz community should encourage our "Friends" to widen the circle of their own contacts, even if it is somewhat "promiscuous" as to selectivity to get, at minimum in the range of 50-150 connections, and continue to build up the power of their connections to generate network energy and content. There are are lot of interesting people out there who are making interesting music or who have interesting things to say about music and everything that music touches [which is practically anything that "gets to us"].

As to the Fuzz-specific elements, this the "secret sauce" of Fuzz that makes it "special" and, thus, I suspect this is a bit more complicated, both in the planning and in the execution. I don't know specifically what this "secret sauce" is - other than its powerful and publically announced Manifesto [that we all subscribe to]. However, as a long time student of complexity theory, I suspect that the Fuzz-specific "secret sauce" has to do with the development, as an ongoing matter, on how to define and sustain EXCELLENCE.

Qualitative distinctions in content are necessarily subjective; but if there is one common element in discernment of quality, it is ORDER. Finding order in the cacaphony of "noise" in a network is itself a non-trivial exercise precisely because what is noise to one node in a network could constitute a "signal" to another node.

I think, learning from information theory, order [or signal] is essentially the "absence of disorder". The mathematical/philosophical symbolic logic of the foregoing is broadly as follows: Excellence = Quality = Signal = Absence of Disorder = Order. Somewhere in this series algorithms [obviously in proprietary detail to Fuzz] is the Fuzz-specific "secret sauce" that I think the Fuzz team is concocting with the help of all of the active, semi-active, and even passive participants in the growing Fuzz community like ourselves. Fuzz is not only all about "Music Uprising", but also "Music Uprising to Excellence".

Cam, looks like you imagined right. TCC, you rock!