Comments on: The end of the fan site? http://www.grange85.co.uk/swirling/2007/05/09/the-end-of-the-fan-site/ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:38:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: My Top 6…music fan sites | Everything's Swirling http://www.grange85.co.uk/swirling/2007/05/09/the-end-of-the-fan-site/comment-page-1/#comment-447 My Top 6…music fan sites | Everything's Swirling Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:20:47 +0000 http://www.grange85.co.uk/swirling/?p=188#comment-447 [...] a fan site I’ve always had an interest in what fans are doing on the web, a year or so ago I posted ruminating on the fan site and whether it had a place in the brave new 2.0 world… Whatever the reason it seems the days [...] [...] a fan site I’ve always had an interest in what fans are doing on the web, a year or so ago I posted ruminating on the fan site and whether it had a place in the brave new 2.0 world… Whatever the reason it seems the days [...]

]]> By: shell http://www.grange85.co.uk/swirling/2007/05/09/the-end-of-the-fan-site/comment-page-1/#comment-148 shell Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:30:27 +0000 http://www.grange85.co.uk/swirling/?p=188#comment-148 Hi Andy and thanks for your comment on the Online Fandom site to the interview i did there. I'm glad you found it interesting and hope it helps you keep working on your own fansite. Myspace and youtube are all very well but you cannot beat a forum based fansite for fan communications. Hi Andy and thanks for your comment on the Online Fandom site to the interview i did there.

I’m glad you found it interesting and hope it helps you keep working on your own fansite.

Myspace and youtube are all very well but you cannot beat a forum based fansite for fan communications.

]]> By: anendel http://www.grange85.co.uk/swirling/2007/05/09/the-end-of-the-fan-site/comment-page-1/#comment-146 anendel Fri, 11 May 2007 13:07:49 +0000 http://www.grange85.co.uk/swirling/?p=188#comment-146 Another example of a fansite that has become the official site is for the Dutch band 'The Gathering'. I once had a fansite too, for the band Anathema. Still in pre-web2.0 times, so things were very limited. Nowadays, where artists (and labels) start to care about the internet and they take control on their own, i think fansites will indeed disappear slowly. Shame is many bands only use myspace and think it's sufficient enough. Luckily, there are many new social websites coming up with more possibilities like www.concertival.be where there will be more interaction, a richer experience between fan and artist etc.. Another example of a fansite that has become the official site is for the Dutch band ‘The Gathering’.
I once had a fansite too, for the band Anathema. Still in pre-web2.0 times, so things were very limited. Nowadays, where artists (and labels) start to care about the internet and they take control on their own, i think fansites will indeed disappear slowly. Shame is many bands only use myspace and think it’s sufficient enough. Luckily, there are many new social websites coming up with more possibilities like http://www.concertival.be where there will be more interaction, a richer experience between fan and artist etc..

]]> By: David Jennings http://www.grange85.co.uk/swirling/2007/05/09/the-end-of-the-fan-site/comment-page-1/#comment-147 David Jennings Thu, 10 May 2007 16:22:21 +0000 http://www.grange85.co.uk/swirling/?p=188#comment-147 Hi Andy, I posted quite a <a href="http://www.netblogsrocknroll.com/2007/05/fan_sites_rip.html" rel="nofollow">long response to this over at my blog</a>. In a nutshell, I think the future for the fan sites -- and I think there is a future, independent of Wikipedia etc -- is in building resources that are 'owned' and managed more collectively than individually. It's still not straightforward to draw together all the disparate YouTube, Flickr resources into a clean, well-designed wiki with multiple authors, but hopefully it will become so. See <a href="http://tmbw.net/wiki/Main_Page" rel="nofollow">This Might be a Wiki</a> (great site, shame about the band!) for an example of the direction I think fan sites may be heading. Hi Andy, I posted quite a long response to this over at my blog. In a nutshell, I think the future for the fan sites — and I think there is a future, independent of Wikipedia etc — is in building resources that are ‘owned’ and managed more collectively than individually.

It’s still not straightforward to draw together all the disparate YouTube, Flickr resources into a clean, well-designed wiki with multiple authors, but hopefully it will become so. See This Might be a Wiki (great site, shame about the band!) for an example of the direction I think fan sites may be heading.

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