DARUSHIMO

John Seroff: So much of what an “mp3 blog” became is just so much file sharing devoid of independent intellectual content or context. Some people (including the other folks taking part in this discussion) still do make an effort to impress some personality and perspective on the music they’re sharing, but it sure has become the exception and not the rule. I’m a little bitter about it; I thought this would be a real billion-points-of-light intellectual and critical movement and it seems to have settled instead into a gazillion people putting up Michael Jackson albums on MegaShare or hipsters copy-and-pasting press releases, URL and all. Makes an ol’ feller wanna wave his cane at these whippersnappers. “In my day, they’d slap a cease-and-desist on ya, guldurnit.”