Hey, Fortune! I know that as a Time Inc. publication in 2008, you're pretty much charged with putting a shiny happy gloss on news pegs for "interesting" business ventures out there, and doing so in word counts that are dwindling so quickly, you'll eventually be communicating via semaphore. (Or photo galleries. Or both.) But when you drop a statement like "Just as the political bloggers are altering the outcome of elections, MP3 bloggers are changing the way people discover new music" in an otherwise decent article on the Hype Machine, maybe you should actually hold up an example of that "discovery," so as to give your readers a little bit of context? Especially given that the one good thing the Internet music elite seem to be better at chewing bands up and spitting them out before they've even been partially digested than actually "discovering" them? [CNNMoney]
Say what you will about the tendencies of music bloggers toward the "hipper-than-thou," but the Hype Machine doesn't lie: A lot of them also think Chris Martin is 100% dreamy. [Hipster Runoff]
Getting 10,000 people who read music blogs to hit its front page at the same time proved to be too much of a challenge for the music-blog aggregator The Hype Machine, so the powers that be over there abandoned their virtual sit-in and threw open the doors to the new, pretty, spying-enabled version. [Hype Machine]
At least in terms of finding new shit to listen to. This graph is taken from the results of a straw poll put together by MP3 blog catch-all the Hype Machine to find out how its readers "discover new music," and as you can clearly see, the Internet is kicking human contact's ass!
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No one here at Idolator claims to be a genius; heck, we're not even sure how to pronounce the name of our own damn site (which, by the way, we wanted to name enya-thusiast.org). But in an effort to share whatever trifling amount of online-music knowledge we have acquired, we're happy to announce Idolator's Instantly Outdated Guide to Internet Music. As its easy-to-remember acronym implies, IIOGTIM is an ever-expanding list of sites, tools, and sites that are run by tools.
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