Zeke asked a report on yesterday’s panel. Here are my thoughts, as you’ll be able to listen to the panel podcast version soon.
At first, it seemed obvious that i was surrounded by what we now call ‘music bloggers’ – hey people, you can now label us : are you a blogger, podcaster, videoblogger, music blogger, new media blogger? hm. I tried to make clear that i am all of the above, but first of all i’m a human being using the web as a medium to share about what moves me, music wise, artwise, technology wise and so on. I may even start an entry on knitting soon, if i feel like.
I am not a journalist, i am a creative person playing, experimenting with creative tools. I am creating a new media, my own one. Its interesting and disturbing.
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We talked alot about the hype made around ‘mp3 blogs’ – not so my thing. Are mp3 blogs the new Napster? I think so yes, i much prefer creating my own show and comment on the songs than posting single mp3s.
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Diversity : why is there no one blogging on the culture of and music history? we’ve got so many of these indie rock mp3 blogs, where are the mp3 blogs specialized in jazz, african, or classical music? I think, its a question of time before a certain ‘non internet’ class of people get into the web and use it as a medium. Plus, its not everyone who needs to share about a passion. I think blogging tools are still reserved, and made for, a generation of internet users – something which is not for the 40 + people, yet. The Web still has to grow.
Hey, I resent that 40+ comment! 😉
For the record, contrary to popular belief, it’s not just the under-25 set that powers the big social networking sites. According to a Mediaweek article a comScore Media Metrix report shows 68% of MySpace’s 55 million users are 25 and older and 71% of Friendster’s 1 million users as well.