15 Oct 2007

The Well-tempered Web

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/22/071022fa_fact_ross

Solie Isokowski and Joyce DiDonatoSolie Isokowski and Joyce DiDonato (Photo: Leonardo Vordoni)
The Internet may be killing the pop CD, but it’s helping classical music.
by Alex Ross [New Yorker, 22 October 2007]

In the spring of 2004, I made the questionable decision to start a blog. I reserved a dot-com address, signed up for an Internet-for-dummies service called Typepad, and, to the delight of more than a dozen compulsively Googling insomniacs around the world, began adding dribs and drabs to the graphomaniac ocean of the Web.