MrFrost says
well, luckily it takes more than a company throwing money around to create a successful social networking site. You cant really buy passionate music fans/visitors and make them stay.
I think the most successful web 2.0 sites will always start off as small time operations. There can be exceptions to the rule, but not many.
Puffmagic says
Not surprising. They already stole my equation idea in their "new music" section. They just don't use pictures to illustrate it.... yet. Granted, I haven't updated mine in almost a year but still.... "I think I did it first":http://theindieequation.blogspot.com/
justcheez says
fuck 'em, they're amateurs.
Moggers know where its at!
Rolling Stone is a music magazine for people that don't listen to music.
wth do their readers have to say?!
Puffmagic says
HiLARious! I still have a subscription to RS, but I don't really know why. I'm so sick of reading about American Idol. Plus, they put Panic! At the Disco AND Fallout Boy on the cover. I believe they received a silver medal in Shark Jumping for that one.
Pseudo Cyborg says
"Err … have they checked out MOG lately?"
LOL SERiously. CBS is a dying corporation. Late-thinking and horrible execution—too little, too late.
Me and the Horse I Rode In On says
To quote Mr Frost: "You cant really buy passionate music fans/visitors and make them stay".
I strongly disagree. I mean........if David gave me some money I would stay. I will stay anyway but that's beside the point.
I guess they'll have an mp3 player as well..............but users are only allowed to post songs by Rolling Stones with the exeption of the song "On The Cover of the Rolling Stone". Wow.....what a party they'll have. Should we send flowers?
colizzle says
Is Rolling Stone still around?
I remember back when that magazine was relevant and actually contained articles about music for music's sake. Rather than pretext for their flavor-of-the-month political agenda. Voice of the counterculture is one thing. Political rag is another.
Those guys are easily distracted.
No only that, they don't have THE MAGIC BUTTON.
Me and the Horse I Rode In On says
It's time for the horse to make things corny!
Rolling Stone.....eat the shorts we'll be wearing when summer arrives!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hmmm says
Wait, what if Mog tried a reality TV show? Maybe a bot tries to take over the world, and the brave moggers- well, actually, they'd probably just let her =)
david hyman says
rockandrollpimp definitely gives MOG the edge when it comes to reality show opportunties!
right rock? or RAWK i should say.
most people don't realize the best online drama is happening right here at MOG
SamTheButcher says
This'll probably go over as well as the DLDS* MTV sites they've tried to make. Which is to say, like a lead balloon. ;)
*Day Late & a Dollar Short
El Monko and Son says
I've been wondering why RS has not really covered MOG in any way when they seem to hype so many other music (and other)-related web stuff.
Oh, and, um, kill you all. Ahem.
ebuzzmiller says
a desperate attempt to revive a long faded brand, which has very little of it's fabled credibility, or audience, left. you can't honestly be bent out of shape about this dave - to paraphrase the late Bill Hicks, Rolling Stone has been sucking Satan's pecker for a LONG time. nobody cares.
TynansAnger says
One of my friends was talking about getting disillusioned with last.fm, and I told her about mog. Could we have another Coke/Pepsi epic duel on our hands? This is more like the XBox competing with the PS2 and Gamecube.
reloki says
That's a nice way to look at it. One can only hope that the RS's plan will fail, though I think it's safe to say that no one will really match MOG.
Me and the Horse I Rode In On says
The RS plan might not fail and it might end up being okay......but who will be there and how will they act? Looking ay myspace and how things have gotten out of hand. It's become a zoo and a haven for spam and bulletins about people getting a new haircut......and so on.
Time is limited and one can only be part of so many communities. One will have to choose. Will they choose a place where it smells like the mall filled with balloons and cotton candy or will they choose the nice hangout with sofas, hip hop thursdays and nice people who seem to care about each other?
I know where I will hang my hat.
It's obvious that in order to stay on top of the game mog will have to keep growing and there will be a risk of us talking about the good old days. Look how freaked we all were when mog-o-sphere went away. Both sides have to do a great job keeping things real at all times.
Welcome to FUNKY FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mike the Knife says
Yeah, baby! It's Friday! Everybody get funky! BTW, even when I agree with the political stance, I am nauseated at the music coverage and the celebrity butt-licking at Rolling Stone. How the mighty have fallen...
ivylander says
Jox, you've put me in mind of one of my favorite quotes, which is applicable to this situation. It comes from Fred Allen, who once said, "Imitation is the sincerest form of television." Change "television" to "Wenner" and you've got it.
Slicing says
i've never read a rolling stone magazine,so i can only imagine the ass kissing that goes on when doing celebrity coverage; and the only time i've went onto the website was when i was 14 and couldn't find a song i really like...needless to say i never returned because they didn't have half the artists covered that i really like. all they had was brittney spears and nsync- i was 14 not stupid!
davesonic says
Britney Spears on the cover was the nail in the coffin for me. The fact that they are trying to play catch up with a dieing forum like Myspace pretty much says it all. We've moved on people. MOG is the real deal.
Grievous Angel says
bleh- rolling stone, like so much deadtree media has sold its soul, not to rock 'n roll, but to the nappy-headed-ho-fest politics of our time. they're increasingly irrelevant in any network, much less a social one. how does it feel to be on your own?
fistula spume says
Rolling Stone blows. MOG needs a magazine just to show them how its done. And a reality show. OH and Dr. Hook needs to write a song about getting your self on the most popular posts list of MOG.
mister gary at work again says
My only problem with RS doing a site like MOG?
Well ... Rolling Stone, as of late, has become a mag that has it's 'darling bands' - sure, they 'introduce new music,' but it's the same three/four bands cycling for months at a time that they really seem to plug away at. I can't see any online workings being much different than that, really.
MOG is rad because none of the pertinent MOG folk have any underlying agendas when it comes to pushing bands (well, no supremely obvious ones, anyways). MOG works because the musical ramblings come from the users about WHATEVER music they want to go on about - not from the Head of MOG State who tells everyone what four bands we should be talking about for April and May.
colizzle says
This story is starting to blow up on "Digg":http://digg.com/tech_news/Rolling_Stone_Magazine_To_Launch_Social_Network. From the comments, things don't look to promising for RS. And a few moggers have weighed in.
sommer face says
Frak that. I'm still staying loyal to MOG. Rolling Stone has pissed me off with the low-quality bands/stars that have graced the covers over the last year.
Dale says
Don't these people get it? A social network with the RS brand will have real music fans staying away in DROVES. The sad thing is that the teenyboppers that latch onto it will think MOG's the imitator. GRR
ivylander says
It works out for everybody. Let them hang out at the mall (perfect analogy, MATHIRIO) and think what they will while we chillax in our comfortably lived-in clubhouse.
Lizziegreeneyes says
RollingStone has let me down with their mag of late (really for the past 10 years - still get it though - for the photography - you can't prove otherwise ok, so don't even try).
Control for smilers can't be bought - but I can ... and I'll even go militia on them or deep undercover and report back with my findings. My job is kinda sucky anyway ... you just say the word - "WORD" and it's on like Donkey Kong & Pac Man with a little DigDug thrown in just for fun - oooh maybe Joust !!!
OK enough with the jokes. Here's the skinny - RollingStone will attrack a more surface audience - and there is nothing wrong with that, it will just more than likely end up a music dating surface ... surreal. For me music goes so much deeper and MOG is the place to go for that depth, and for like-minded people to connect over music.
Let me esplane - no it take too lon - let me sum up:
A RollingStone MOG will attract like-minded RollingStone readers who will probably turn it into a music/online dating/youtube/wikipedia kinda thing that just sucks ... too many heads (oops meant spoons) in the pot for that one (hee hee I said pot).
MOG is a much more sacred place - and to quote Me and the Horse I Rode In On ...
I know where I will hang my hat as well ... touche pussycat - touche !
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