MySpace ~ Ugh

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Does anybody else share my distaste for MySpace? I know it’s big in the teen segment, but an increasing number of bands and labels seem to think it’s necessary/useful to develop a MySpace page e.g. Matthew Bourne, The Leaf Label, Wibutee and John Fahey (okay, the latter was set up by a fan, but somehow still it seems like sacrilege). I can recognise that it provides easy to use tools such as music player, blog, etc., but I just can’t summon up any enthusiasm for the endeavour. Homepages invariably play music as soon as they’ve loaded – interfering with whatever music I’m currently listening to; homepages are infinitely long because they contain an endless list of hello messages, 99.9% of which are utterly banal; there’s banner advertising (thankfully excised by a combination of Adblock and Noscript Firefox add-ons); there’s the endless befriending requests; there’s the dull page design. MySpace? No thank you.

Until I can find the time to fix the **()&)!@!@ commenting, please email any responses to this or future posts to me: enquiries + the a with a circle round it + eleventhvolume + full stop + com. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks.

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Published:: 14.05.06 / 9am

Category:: internet, music, music interfaces, software

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I’ve been writing this blog for quite a lot longer than three years and now I’m finally getting round to writing something in the About page. But what to write? Oh well, if you check the category listings you’ll see what I cover. It’s a ragtag assortment of bits and bobs, anything that catches my fancy really. Unsurprisingly, much of that is music. I much appreciate comments, but whether you feel like making them or not, I hope you find something of interest.

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themilkman 25.05.06 / 12pm

I certainly understand the way you feel about myspace, although I am guilty of having a profile there… I mostly use it to get rid of some of the utter shite that crosses my mind at times… and also because I enjoy reading a couple of friends’ blogs… My space is mostly delimited by themilkfactory, my email, Last.fm, my friend Mark’s wonderfully written blog and my Blogspot really, with a few intermittent other appearances…

oh, and this place, of course…

11V 26.05.06 / 11am

“MySpace – one of the best known ‘open’ platforms for sharing content and information – recently changed its copyright policy following acquisition by Murdoch. Today everything which is uploaded to the site, your pictures, movies and recordings belongs, legally at least, to them.” (http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/05/20/what-is-an-openbusiness/)

Looks like Rupert Murdoch now owns what you call your “utter shite” Bruno! – which might be a good thing…

You mention Last.FM which is beginning to irritate me like it does you – I read in the forums that they’re thinking of radically altering how the charts display. All I can think is why they don’t just get their basic service working reliably.

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