On the band Web site for Nine Inch Nails (nin.com) I found some interesting ways that they use the Web and various other tools and display some aspects of convergence. Like most other band Web sites, they already have things like news, photos, and common stuff like that, but they added a section titled,
Remix, where anyone can take existing Nine Inch Nails songs and remix them themselves. Fans are also able to post their remixed songs and rate the work of others. I think it's cool for a band to add something new and a little different to contribute to some ideas of what can be done. I was surprised that when you go into Itunes, you can find remixed versions of people's work under Podcasts.
Something else that I found to be very interesting from the band was that while making one of their albums a little bit ago, they left USB drives with new songs for fans to find in random places such as a bathroom at a Nine Inch Nails concert.
I think that all of these things create a community for fans and for the band both online and offline and I see it as being fairly useful for a variety of reasons.
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This is a pretty cool feature of the website. With the idea of convergance in every medium being such a popular trend these days, obviously the combination of technology and music is as well. To be able to get on the website and become your own D.J. gives people a great first hand look at what its like to be a D.J.
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