And The Walls Came Tumbling Down: Who's Next?

This is fairly huge news, not because a fading Pop Diva has inserted herself into the discussion again, but that a savvy industry giant has made a huge move toward independence. The recording industry has been so clueless on the use of the internet, how to change with an obviously changing market and how to leverage their assets to maintain and grow their business base. Instead they turned to manning the gates and suing and fighting tooth and nail for the status quo.

And The Walls Came Tumbling Down: Madonna Dumps Record Industry: "The only real question now is how fast will the music industry model come tumbling down. When Radiohead led the way in offering their music directly to fans many predicted that the move was the beginning of the end; Madonna may well be the tipping point from where we will now see a flood of recording artists dumping record labels and where todays model will shortly become a footnote in Wikipedia."

Tell me, can you think of any other artistic/commercial endeavors that may begin to see some elimination of the middle man. Gatekeepers beware. Magazines and movies are seeing little chippings here and there. And soon the little chipping could cause a large break.

Which side will you be on? I've made my choice. Have you?