As the writers’ strike has made clear, art and entertainment in the digital age are highly collaborative, and none of it can thrive without engaging audiences more actively than ever before. Fans today see themselves as doing business with television shows, movies, even books. They want to rate, review, remix. They want to make tributes and parodies, create footnotes and concordances, mess with volume and color values, talk back and shout down.

As Paul Weller's version of Dr. John's classic "Walk On Gilded Splinters" plays, the coming days and weeks and months play out.

Mjb Da Mvp!