I'm not scared of them getting a preview. It really is going to be a global village where a billion people have access to one artist and a billion people can leave a tip if they want to. It's a radical democratization. Every artist has access to every fan and every fan has access to every artist, and the people who direct fans to those artists. People that give advice and technical value are the people we need.
People crowding the distribution pipe and trying to ignore fans and artists have no value.
This is a perfect system. Now comes Tom Matrullo, who was one of the very first writers to grok the Cluetrain, Tom Matrullo both as a site and as a book . His review of the book, like everything he writes, is thoughtful, deep, informed and original. I'll go into that adventure shortly. It is my extreme privilege and pleasure to debut these notes, which are, in my somewhat qualified opinion, the best corollary to Cluetrain that I've read to date.