Iām never quite sure if I should pimp my blog posts here or not. Iām not putting my own stuff down but I just blog about what Iām watching or reading and what Iāve done the past week (which is usually but not always just working and then watching or reading stuff). So many of you write such wonderful, in-depth, well-researched and well thought out articles! Itās more like āone of these is not like the othersā
Anyway, I have my Weekly Wrap Up 08 posted. I read some stuff, watched some shows and, just to spice things up, bought a bunch of stuff this past Bandcamp Friday.
Adding another comment here that I enjoy all the styles of posting here. While I donāt yet blog I take inspiration from all of you about the topics you choose to write about. I see great value in just writing about your day or a new snack you tried out. I like to think of it as kind of like āslice of lifeā posting. I honestly love some of the shorter posts people have put here about little snippets of their day or new experiences!
yessss this is such a great blog post! Iām gonna link to it from my site.
As someone who is very offline, I sometimes advocate being very offline to friends & get this look of FOMO from them like, if theyāre not online then theyāll be Cut Off From Everything. But as you say, the idea that Everything is on the internet participates in the profound vanishing of anything which is not online.
One you donāt explicitly mention: not everyone is online.
As of 2019, almost 1/5 of Britons report that they do not use the internet - predominantly older people. 40% of those earning less than Ā£12,500 do not go online[1]
And Britain is a comparatively prosperous place, on a global scale. So if youāre imagining that anything and anyone worth knowing is online - huge chunks of people and their perspectives just donāt exist to you.
(& I also think about this whenever I critique Spotify and people are like, ābut it has everythingā. It certainly does Not have everything, it just disappears anything it doesnāt have)
ohhh you should definitely share your thoughts if your thoughts are about DISCO Cowley is so good, School Daze is a great album.
Iām actually writing a thing atm about how to relearn to access music online, the importance of a music blogging ecosystem. only by writing about what we are listening to (watching, reading, etc) can we outcompete the idea you āmustā engage with algorithmic recommendation systems.
I wrote this a few weeks ago, but I hope it interests you. I was thinking the past few months about the fast paced nature of some media. As well as what the aftermath of grinding on social media felt like (as a creative), and where the future could potentially be at.
i think youāre missing that starbreaker was just correcting your word choice, not disagreeing with what you were saying. :) concise is short and made your sentence a lilā confusing. you essentially said, āblog posts donāt need to be long and short!ā
Cowley is so good, School Daze is a great album.