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[David Slusser]

I agree, and it also seems related to the attitude
that music is free now. Somehow, I hesitate to
mock the iArtists, though, since most of us are
self-appointed artists as well.  (Not you folks
that had a title conferred on you.)

On Oct 12, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Matthew Goodheart wrote:
> Yeah, I'd agree with this. I had a number of discussions a few years
> with folks who were cashing in on the dot com boom, and saying
> "there's all this dough floating around, but no ones becoming some
> big art patron with their new-found cash," to which those who were
> cashing in replied: "Of course not, all the dot com-ers think they're
> artists themselves."  It's just continued with the iGeneration;
> everyone's an artist (and an Xtreme one at that. . .)
>
> On Oct 12, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Sarah - 21 Grand wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry, I'm not buying it ... after weeks of having to look at
>> yahoo ads
>> for HP photo paper suggesting that its users could "get creative
>> with Gwen
>> Stefani," I think most normal people want to think of themselves as
>> creative, or aspire to some form of creativity. Isn't that the
>> "lesson" of
>> "Web 2.0"?