Decoding "Code Monkey"

Clive Thompson, who showed us the Dana octopus squid a while back, has a piece in the NY Times Magazine about Jonathan Coulton. "Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog" is the title; it is not just about Jonathan Coulton, it's more of a look at how MySpace and the Internet in general are changing the relationship between pop artists and their audiences.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden of Making Light, a musician himself, linked this indirectly, through the video it contains, as one of his sidebar "Sidelights."