Comments on: Terry McBride on music blogs and more http://zedequalszee.com/2009/03/10/terry-mcbride-on-music-blogs-and-more/ Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:32:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Upcoming: SanFran MusicTech Summit « zed equals zee http://zedequalszee.com/2009/03/10/terry-mcbride-on-music-blogs-and-more/#comment-1339 Mon, 11 May 2009 10:01:24 +0000 http://zedequalszee.com/?p=2686#comment-1339 [...] interesting. Speakers include Dave Allen (of Pampelmoose), Terry McBride of Nettwerk (who gets around), and Fred Von Lohmann of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, with panels on social networking, [...]

]]> By: debcha http://zedequalszee.com/2009/03/10/terry-mcbride-on-music-blogs-and-more/#comment-947 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:50:09 +0000 http://zedequalszee.com/?p=2686#comment-947 Update: Hype Machine has now changed their front page to default to an ‘overview’ listing, which includes one posting from each blog each day (you can toggle to ‘top 100′ or ‘all’). I think this is a pretty good compromise, but mostly I’m impressed by their responsiveness to the blogging community – the new system was only in place for a few days before they changed it.

]]> By: debcha http://zedequalszee.com/2009/03/10/terry-mcbride-on-music-blogs-and-more/#comment-934 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:37:39 +0000 http://zedequalszee.com/?p=2686#comment-934 I was one of, I’m sure, many bloggers who wrote a response to Hype Machine as soon as I saw notification of the changes on the Machine Shop blog on the weekend, and boyhowdy at Cover Lay Down makes the argument well. Actively supporting the Matthew Effect seems to be entirely at odds with Hype Machine’s professed mandate to support diversity and (as evidenced by the quote above that they trumpeted) authenticity.

Judging by the number of ‘I couldn’t figure out what had happened’ comments at HM’s blog, it doesn’t seem like the toggle to ‘all blogs’ is at all obvious. Defaults are incredibly powerful.

]]> By: Scott http://zedequalszee.com/2009/03/10/terry-mcbride-on-music-blogs-and-more/#comment-933 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:17:06 +0000 http://zedequalszee.com/?p=2686#comment-933 Interesting that he brings up Hype Machine given recent changes to its default settings. Read “When Hype Machine Drops the Little Guy, We All Lose” for a long analysis of the changes, but the short version is that the front page has gone from listing everything to listing only the 100 most popular blogs. Given how incredibly easy it is to still get blogs outside the top 100, I think he’s exaggerating the impact of these changes, but his point about the dominance of default settings is a valid one.

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