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| From | "Holmes Online" <bholmes_fm@msn.com> |
| Subject | Re: anyone know anything more |
| Date | Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:04:12 -0500 |
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From: "Jeff Weiss" <jeff@milesofmusic.com>
> The wave of blogs and social networking is going to be a poor replacement
> for good magazines (of which I consider Amplifier), knowledgeable stores,
> friends, on-line communities etc.
There are tons of online sites that seem to purely exist for ego and/or
generating hit count, quality be damned. Quantity, not quality, of content.
Some more well organized and popular sites seem to get off on being
"snap"...unfortunately this is a cancer that ruined everything from ESPN to
talk radio. When done well (Creem, Onion) it's funny and satirical. When
done poorly (too many) it's tripe. I love MySpace when a band asks me to go
there to hear their new tunes, but trolling for music there is impossible
and the whole "how many friends" thing is a turn-off for me.
I don't think anything will ever replace your friends who also like music
and the magazines (online and/or print) where seemingly intelligent/literate
people contribute. Unfortunately (to Jeff's point) the knowledgeable stores
are an endangered species. Blogs, like magazines, come in all flavors.
I'm not certain if I know the difference between "social networking" and
"on-line communities" in this day and age, but everything from a band's fan
list to Audities cocoons itself in some shroud and resists the opposition.
Audities is more tolerant than most but I have seen certain people, artists
and thoughts run out of town on a rail. But when they talk about new and
lesser known music/artists, it's wrth all the trouble. Or most.
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