Survey Says: Music Blog Readers
Recently I stumbled across an interesting survey of music blog readers (roughly 700 respondents and about 30 questions); check it out at Music Blogs Reader Survey. Among the findings there were stats you might expect like that 73% of respondents were male, and most of the readers were either in arts and entertainment, in technology (or both), and/or are students. Those stats are predictable. Some of the more interesting insights were how few of these readers listen to podcasts (62% say they never do), and 44% said that they felt blogs were "going to fill the hole left when traditional publishers fold." 97% of respondents said they listen to music many times based on the recommendation of a blogger, and over 88% said that friends rely on them (respondents) for music recommendations. Over 37% of respondents said that they started blogging in 2005 & 2006, so overall we're just getting started. Anyway, some fun stats here worthy of a quick review if you're interested.
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I am embarassed when I look at that to see that I fit the stereotype to a T. The one item that struck me was the number of people that were still reading print publications. I realize that survey is a year old now, but I stopped reading anything in print years ago. BTW have you checked out Songbird?
I'm not quite understanding what all
this is supposed to be about?
Must be me or something...
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I like your style too.
Cya again,
Joey
Pretty Cool Place.
I like your style too.
Cya again,
Joey
Pretty Cool Place.
I like your style too.
Cya again,
Joey
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Right, Kurt. That is the meaning behind "intelligence doesn't scale". It is another way of saying the effect of any long tail distribution is to create locales of competence (where a locale may not be physical but topical space). If members of these cooperate, one can build fantastically complex vertical applications or enable the interoperations of many horizontal applications. On the other hand, the same people will also be competing at some levels so as I said, the manifold becomes lumpy. That's ok as long as on balance, the ecology is self-sustaining. Study models of ecologies where for disease or invasion, the ecology drops below some population threshold and can't recover. Information does that as well depending on the energy model for supporting it. That is why I study low energy transport systems. The human brain is the gold standard for such systems. Open source is the manifestation on the web.
As for AJAX, XAML, XUL, yes. Presaged by MID. (for which I am glad because that project does away with any IP someone might want to grab for those ideas). So depending on the model of one's own economic reciprocity, it is a good idea to expose to visible web if one doesn't mind giving it up for the sake of securing a future (homo parochius) in an open source environment of reciprocal contribution (homo reciprocans
>> The web is a little different in that many can contribute, but in the time scale of things, will digital memory be more or less permanent? I think less.
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Now I just need something to write about that it relates to
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