An Open Question
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What benefits do regular Moggers get from the Mog network?
As is my regular routine, I filter all posts to include just Mog members. Then I check on the pages of a few individual artists and band pages, in order to find out what other Moggers views are on new releases, live shows etc. Then I check the individual pages of the Mog's that I interact with.
So I'm left wondering...what use is the Mog Network? If I wanted to read Idiomag's blog then I would add it to the favourites on my browser (BTW I'm not singling out Idiomag's blog, I could highlight hundreds of sites).
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"What benefits do regular Moggers get from the Mog network?"
.....Speaking only for myself, one unlearned in the ways of the internet, The MOG is an oasis of like-minded souls linked by music. In my fleshnblood world I can count the people I know with our kind of obsession on one hand. I trust the opinion of certain MOGgers more than I trust "reviews" in magazines or newspapers, you know?
So for me the benefit of the MOG is an expansion of my musical universe. I have other sites, but for sheer variety of Posts & people who post them....MOG is the place.
G morning and happy February, Ben!
I can only speak for myself, but for one thing I don't have the time or the patience to cruise around the net and blogs for news and reviews on the artists I like, so it works for me that it's all here, gathered in one place. It makes things so much easier and I realized that I read more now that it is like this. On a more personal level, I found some people who are just lovely, pure MOG material, and I enjoy our communication.
I agree with both dmdm and Anna, Ben. I pay the most attention to my Trusted, but peruse the MOG news and highlighted posts - and when MMN posts are relevant to me (such as the one that revealed info about the new album by The Bird and The Bee), I am happy to see them right here at MOG.
For me, I rarely listen to the radio anymore (does anyone?) and my friends have such different music tastes that I don't know where to find new music myself.
The nice thing about MOG is that you can find all sorts of new music and be re-introduced to old stuff (like Badfinger). In the last month, I heard some jazz (Freddy Hubbard) I'd never heard before and an indie group from Sweden (Air France) and it made me find out more about both.
That's a good reason, eh?
As usual, Anna and Mike the Knife are right on this, as is deadmandeadman, too.
I do listen to the radio- but I use it this way, these days:
AM radio- for news, weather, sports, traffic and sometimes talk.
XM- great for commercial-free music. XM 40 is Deep Tracks and XM 45 is the Spectrum. (Sirius has the same stations, just on different channel numbers). These play some hits but, as the Deep Tracks title implies, they go beyond just the artists' top 2 or 3 "singles" (remember those days of singles?). Spectrum mixes famous artist hits and not-such-big-hits by them with hits (or songs the programmers deem"hit-worthy" by new artists- which is good- but enough Jack Johnson already, okay?)
For nostalgia, there's XM 44 First Wave (formerly alternative or new wave- from its early days in the late 70's and early 80's- when it was fresh), XM 46 Classic Vinyl...what you would expect from the 60's and 70's....lots of Led Zep, Dylan, Stones, etc.....you will know almost all these songs by heart....XM 49 Classic Rewind- where you will find, well, Heart and Cheap Trick...along with lots of Journey, Bon Jovi and rock hits from the 80's.
FM- almost never anymore. I mean, with satellite radio, why?
So- where I am going with all this- MOG helps fill a niche for me. It introduces new artists to me because people like Anna and Mike the Knife find a lot of cool stuff!
Great replies...all of you (and thanks for the heads up fasted)! I really need to appreciate that Moggers have uniquely different requirements and expectations from the site. It's like an all in buffet. Some gobble the lot up, others pick and choose. What unites us is our love of the musical buffet that brings us all here.
i LOVE the MMN! i'm always surprised when moggers don't like it, coz i think it's fabulous. i subscribe to a ton of blogs in my RSS feeder, but i love that i can read a bunch of them here. I guess i like it coz i can see all the music news in 1 place and if something strikes my fancy, i can usually listen to it right here.
in other words, i roll like Mike - i read trusted mogs and blogs 1st and with the most interest, but hardly a day goes by that i don't learn/hear something new from the MMN. as a long-time music journalist, i have to give props to the MMN bloggers for posting stuff the second it hits the web. it's damn near impossible to scoop those peeps, trust me!
news about things I would have to search for, and it has paid off let me tell you