In reading about blogging, particularly music blogging, around the web, I too often run into the same nonsense: Everyone posts a ton but isn’t really posting anything, really. It’s all a race to be first with very little reflection—outside of some random self-indulgent nostalgia—and very little thought. It’s all… hollow.
So I suppose that’s why I don’t really write all that much here at Dangerous Strings. While I feel like music blogs—hell, blogs in general—are very important, I also feel that 90 percent of them could disappear and we’d be fine. I mean, for Christ’s sake, MySpace is now in the game of writing about the “daily news” of the music world. And for what?
In looking at what I see posted so frequently, we’re all yelling the same damn thing with a slightly different voice and/or vernacular. There’s nothing special about one blog or the other unless they’re actually doing something special. One particular site, which I won’t link to, has a lot of garbage going on within its Internet walls, but they at least offer a lot in terms of unique content. Then again, I’ve heard they pay their employees absolutely horribly, so what am I saying, really? And did I just reveal who I’m talking about? Damn… I think.
My biggest issue isn’t even the lack of unique content or anything like that. Hell, I barely have the time to do anything truly inspired here outside of the piece of drivel I churn out every few days. Yet, it still feels much more rewarding doing this instead of chasing the ghosts of web traffic.
Anyway, as for the photo I’ve attached here, I’m going to leave that up for interpretation. If you feel like leaving a comment, let me know what you think it means.
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