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Posted over 5 years ago
my general feelings on mog: it is gentrifying and marginalizing music blogging. period.but i can't turn away... i keep coming back. you guys say so much with so little.maybe this is all a good thing. like what blogging is (was?) about. putting music back into the hands of the people - tail end outsells top forty - blah, blah, blah.ps. the mog program thing that tracks music keeps crashing my mac. if you need to know i'm listening to the new rapture. how fucking amazing is this album?... the best of 2006. the best. and that isn't psycho fan boy talk.
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Comments (10)

  1. SWozniak
    SWozniak says gentrifying? explain?
    Permalink posted 08/31/2006
  2. Jorobot
    Jorobot says Hey hey hey now...Music blogging by nature is about putting music writing in the hands of the people; it thrives the more blogs there are. If you'd rather have a few select tastemaking bloggers, you're just supporting a different kind of establishment. Viva la Revolution!
    Permalink posted 08/31/2006
  3. bigstereo
    bigstereo says by gentrifying: it's not hard to music blog... it's not hard to create a site. but mog makes it super easy - and makes it so anyone can do it. don't you think it could all become muddy? i mean - who's taste do you trust? i don't think mog is there yet, but there is the potential for very 'generic' music to become the norm. it's like opening pandora's box. and there are already a few tastemaking moggers. so there you go! all my first instinct. i've been lurking for a while, and i've been known to change my mind!
    Permalink posted 08/31/2006
  4. Dale
    Dale says I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at the diversity of music tastes. While it is very easy to create a blog here, the site caters to music geeks, who are diverse by their very nature. And I trust My Trusted MOG's tastes, but not before going through my own filter of tastes. I mean it. Read the posts, find someone with whom you connect musically, and you'll be hooked in a flash.
    Permalink posted 08/31/2006
  5. david hyman
    david hyman says why should only the elites get to blog? ; ) also, blogging doesn't really do much in the way of "community" -d
    Permalink posted 09/01/2006
  6. bigstereo
    bigstereo says there is nothing elite about blogging. anyone can do it. perhaps though elitism comes with success and that is something that cannot be avoided: blog, mog, or the real world. mog devalues it a bit... it's like you can go to mcdonalds and eat a hamburger but is that the real thing? i'm not comparing mogging to mcdonalds but it has a certain 'generic' feeling about it. to totally contradict myself at the same time i think mog is great. it's like what last.fm has been wanting to do but hasn't quite been able to pull off - even with the irhuge user base. dh>> "also, blogging doesn't really do much in the way of 'community'" i cannot disagree with you more. that is the biggest bullshit comment ever. blogging has provided me with a huge, worldwide community - people i love, people i hate. priceless really. blogging is all about community, it's just not prescribed for you.
    Permalink posted 09/01/2006
  7. tomiiko
    tomiiko says I actually think MOG does the opposite of "gentrify" music blogging. BigStereo - I *LOVE* your blog. It's in my top 4 and I visit it weekly (along with 20 jazz fun greats, fastnbulbous and stereogum). You and I have similar tastes. But I know for a fact that many of my friends have not been exposed to your blog or others that are quite good. Mog allows for easier dissemination of new music,articles, opinions etc. It's the on-line community aspect that has the most potential to make MOGging a different experience than reading blogs by authors with whom you may never really get to communicate with. "Blogging" initally was a way for your average joe to journal and keep a public log of daily musings etc and that had a democratizing effect on the web. MOGging just takes that a step further. I don't see where "elitism" and "success" have any relevance when referring to something that kind of decentralized and diversified our information sources in the first place.
    Permalink posted 09/01/2006
  8. bigstereo
    bigstereo says "I don’t see where “elitism” and “success” have any relevance when referring to something that kind of decentralized and diversified our information sources in the first place." well, i cannot agree with that more. i feel though that perhaps it could look like elitism - especially if you're not that familar with music blogging or just starting out.. in general i have found music bloggers to be some of the most generous and open people i have ever encountered. i totally respect your opinion tomiiko (and not cuz you said you love my blog ;) and... i was thinking about the community comment a bit more. and maybe one of my issues is that mog is a bit insular. it is basically a self contained community... where as blogging is universal. though, bringing it back to what you are saying tomiiko - i have my blogging peers and i know what they like, are thinking, etc, but i have very little feedback from people who read my blog. i don't know what they are listening to and liking. even when i have the best comments going on it is limited to the topic i choose. so mog definitely has the upper hand there. i think a lot of this feels the same way when livejournal showed up on the scene. i remember feeling a little bit taken aback by lj. and of course now looking back lj hasn't really adversly affected blogging. ooooh and you must be the david bowie tomiiko! no?
    Permalink posted 09/01/2006
  9. tomiiko
    tomiiko says indeed it is me. the one and only, the incorrigible - miss tomiiko. pleased to meet you!!!
    Permalink posted 09/01/2006
  10. tomiiko
    tomiiko says oh...and i still have the dinosaur stickers on my mirror :P
    Permalink posted 09/01/2006

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