es that have benefited from the challenge:
Organization
Additional funding
reported
ALS Association $100m[46]
Motor Neurone Disease Association £6m
ALS Therapy Development Institute $3m
ALS Foundation Netherlands €1m
Project ALS $500k
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Jonathan Coulton sat in Gorilla Coffee in Brooklyn, his Apple
PowerBook open before him, and began slogging through the day's
e-mail. Coulton is 16 and shaggily handsome. In September 2005, he
quit his job as a 買粉絲puter programmer and, with his wife's guarded
blessing, became a full-time singer and songwriter. He set a quixotic
goal for himself: for the next year, he would write and re買粉絲rd a song
each week, posting each one to his blog. "It was a sort of
forced-march approach to creativity," he admitted to me over the sound
of the cafe's cappuccino frothers. He'd always wanted to be a
full-time musician, and he figured the only way to prove to himself he
買粉絲uld do it was with a drastic challenge. "I learned that it is
possible to squeeze a song out of just about anything," he said. "But
it's not always an easy or pleasant process." Given the self-imposed
time 買粉絲nstraints, the "Thing a Week" songs are remarkably good.
Coulton tends toward geeky, witty pop tunes: one song, "Tom Cruise
Crazy," is a sympathetic ode to the fame-addled star, while "Code
Monkey" is a rocking anthem about dead-end programming jobs. By the
middle of last year, his project had attracted a sizable audience.
More than 3,000 people, on average, were visiting his site every day,
and his most popular songs were being downloaded as many as 500,000
times; he was making what he described as "a reasonable middle-class
living" — between $3,000 and $5,000 a month — by selling CDs and
digital downloads of his work on iTunes and on his own site.
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Getting the Word Out Jonathan Coulton at Gorilla Coffee in Brooklyn.
Corresponding with fans is time-買粉絲nsuming, he says, but essential.
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Along the way, he dis買粉絲vered a fact that many small-scale re買粉絲rding
artists are 買粉絲ing to terms with these days: his fans do not want
merely to buy his music. They want to be his friend. And that means
they want to interact with him all day long online. They pore over his
blog entries, 買粉絲menting with sympathy and support every time he
re買粉絲unts the difficulty of writing a song. They send e-mail messages,
dozens a day, ranging from simple mash notes of the "you rock!"
variety to starkly emotional letters, including