What do you all think about this?

http://www.ippio.com/video/5358/Criticism-II-Music-Is-Math

I find it very interesting, personally.

It looks like a link of some kind

Sorry for not describing it-- I thought it might be something we all knew about and that I was late on the game. It's a talk given by Chris Weingarten (who did/does post here sometimes) about the current state of music criticism.

Can I chime in on this one? Here goes: I also find it interesting. Thanks for hearing out my thoughts on this link.

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man fuck that guy

iawtc

He's basically correct imho. The constant outpouring of substandard material and the nerdy rat races on music blogs can be distracting and dumb people down unless they become aware of it and cool their jets once in a while. I object to that cap though.

do ppl read music blogs?

mp3 blogs

since the point isn't to "read" (most) mp3 blogs but to get mp3s, i guess Hype Machine kind of makes reading any one of those blogs unnecessary. they're effectively just churning out what amounts to raw data and links to files for Hype Machine to deal w/ & present to "users"

good speech
'i have a dream'

i wish music critics would talk about music more and "the state of criticism" less - or at least just cut to the chase with the latter and talk about "how to get paid" (which is a crucial question indeed for all journalists, but let's not make it overly philosophical with these sweeping "the state of..." pronouncements)