Jonathan Coulton

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Worst Gig Ever, originally uploaded by jcoulton.

Someone entertaining all the wifi leeches at the Dell Lounge. Egads. Still haven’t attended a single panel here at SXSW, which makes me either very smart or very stupid. [...]

I’ve been doing little but traveling since Friday night so I haven’t had a chance to post, but thanks to everyone who came out to the Birchmere and Cactus Cafe shows - both sold out! Some flight delay excitement yesterday, but now I’m here in Austin, getting ready to go pick up my SXSW badge. [...]

Super Dave (whose real name is Dave) has started posting YouTube video guitar lessons for my songs. This is something that I’ve wanted to do myself for a while, but of course just haven’t had the time. Here is an example of just how powerful a tool procrastination can be, because Dave says he’s going [...]

From Kevin Kelly’s blog The Technium via Waxy.org (and Mike who emailed me a link), a nice crystallization for me of how the long tail can work for creators. Most of the time long tail discussions are about how Amazon makes a billion dollars selling one copy per month of a million different indie CDs. [...]

UPDATE: I and others have confirmed that it’s a 14+ show, and there will be no opening band. Which means I will be able to rock (oh so softly) for 12 or 15 hours.
The show at Dingwalls has been confirmed and tickets are now being sold right here. At this point I’m just waiting to [...]