Songwriters Musepaper Goes Online!

by Simon Higgs

The Songwriter's Musepaper is going on the Information Superhighway. This means that you will be able to pick up a copy of the Musepaper on your home computer via modem. Back issues, including your favorite interviews and other useful music information, will be made available, too. You will be able to retrieve it from the Newsstand area of Kaleidospace. (See the article on page 12 in this issue.) You can use any existing on-line service that has an Internet Gateway (CompuServe, America Online etc.) to get your copy. The Musepaper will be available via ftp, gopher, list-serv and the World Wide Web.

You can use almost any online service's Internet gateway (CompuServe, AOL, Delphi, PAN, etc.) to connect to Kaleidospace and retrieve Musepaper as text or graphic (hey, even video!) files.

The 'list-serv' is where you can subscribe to the magazine online and have the text from the latest issue delivered to your e-mail address automatically each month. This way you don't have to wait for the mailman to deliver it to your doorstep. Subscription usually arrives at your e-mail address within an hour of being sent out.

By using the Internet's World Wide Web, we plan to make the Musepaper a completely interactive multimedia magazine where you will be able to hear samples of songs and see short video clips of interviews, concert footage and other rare glimpses inside the world of songwriting.

You will probably run into a lot of "under construction" signs while cruising the Information Superhighway. This is because, like all other highways, it has to be built before anyone can travel on it. The Songwriter's Musepaper Online is under construction too, so not every issue, or piece of information that we want to make available will be immediately available.

Advertisers please note: We currently have a fixed print circulation (our existing print run will remain unchanged), but once we are on the Internet, we will be able to publish an unlimited amount of extra copies electronically (we recycle electrons!). There are about 30 million people around the world currently using the Internet. Every one of them will be able to read the Musepaper if they choose.

Copyright 1994 Simon Higgs