According to an article in the New York Post, Madonna is considering leaving the Warner Music Group in favour of life without a traditional record contract. I think this is cool. And it's not only Madonna. Artists, novelists, musicians, and other creative people are going independent. It used to be that you were dependent on a contract with a big publisher or recording company to make your stuff available to a larger audience. Nowadays, the Internet has made it possible for just about anyone with great talent to get an audience.

This development is probably what I like best about the time we live in now. I am old enough to remember a time without Internet and online publishing, and I know how many were burned in the struggle to get a few talent agents' attention. Often people with great artistic skills gave up because they had nowhere to expose their work. Nowadays, they build a website, write a blog, publish video clips on YouTube, and sell their stuff through Amazon and iTunes.