MySpace

[JACkory]

I haven't been anywhere, Thorn, my friend. I've kept up with a couple of boards, I just haven't been inspired to post much. We're opposites insomuch that you are shooting for a huge post count and I'm (subconsciously) trying to keep mine down.
That's a load of bollocks, to be sure, but it seems to make sense so there you are.

[Thorngrub]

haha, makes sense to me mate.


Think I'll visit yr bipolar bloggy wog now

[Thorngrub]

*whoa* ! Wot happens if I click on the pulsing silver sphereoid ?

[JACkory]

thorny said:

*whoa* ! Wot happens if I click on the pulsing silver sphereoid ?

Apparently nothing. I just tried it.
Hope you liked the new stuff I've posted there (which isn't really new at all, just new to the blog).

Actually I think it changes the speed of the auras emitting from the silver ball when you run your mouse over it. But I don't know.

[JACkory]

Speaking of MySpace, I've just returned to blogging there, stuff of a more personal nature than I've wanted to do at the Lounge (can barely find inspiration to post there anymore)...so feel free to check it out next time you're on MySpace.

[Thorngrub]

by the way . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . if & when you visit my blogger profile, scroll to the bottom & try out the last one, twilit. It's my latest, w/only a few entries

peace

[Thorngrub]

jackory said:

Speaking of MySpace, I've just returned to blogging there, stuff of a more personal nature than I've wanted to do at the Lounge (can barely find inspiration to post there anymore)...so feel free to check it out next time you're on MySpace.

Will do man.


I've got a few live concert blogs on my myspace blog,
check em out when you're bored sometime.

The first one is an old klassic koRn review I wrote in '99,
then there's a killer Sleepytime Gorilla Museum one you should truly dig, and keep scrollin for a TOOL one & some local black/deathmetal shows, plus a story about how I inadvertently killed my spider pal late last November


I'll add you to my myspace friends....

[Rit]

i read a few of the backpages of this board.

i think someone else said it best, "words fail me."

[phil]

Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly?


Victor Keegan
Thursday February 8, 2007
The Guardian


Aristotle distinguished between friendships based on communal interests and those of soulmates who bonded out of mutual affection. The vast majority of people signed up for MySpace, Rupert Murdoch's phenomenally successful networking site, fall into the former category. But on present showing that won't stop its continuing expansion which, as the MySpace generation goes into employment, could eventually extend Murdoch's influence in ways that would make his grip on satellite television seem parochial.

It was said at the time of purchase that if Murdoch tried to mess with MySpace's "sharing" culture by commercialising it, punters would simply switch to one of the dozens of clones it has spawned from Bebo.com to the upwardly mobile Cyworld.com, which has taken South Korea by storm and is now taking the battle into MySpace's backyard in the US. Cyworld points to research showing that MySpace is a "rites-of-passage" site that kids will grow out of while Cyworld is a "real you" experience. It is an interesting, almost Aristotelian, distinction but some argue it may already be too late for competitors to dislodge MySpace, except in niche markets.

John Barrett of TechNewsWorld claims that MySpace is well on the way to becoming what economists call a "natural monopoly". Users have invested so much social capital in putting up data about themselves it is not worth their changing sites, especially since every new user that MySpace attracts adds to its value as a network of interacting people.

It is common knowledge that a fax machine is worthless until others have one too. That is what is happening in social networking except that, unlike a fax machine, it can't be instantly swapped for another. It is easy to change search engines, even if it is Google. But if you change social networks you not only have to move all your videos, audios, messages, photos elsewhere but you also lose your network of friends unless they migrate with you. MySpace won't make that easy. Its massive user base will help maintain its dominance, according to co-founder Chris DeWolfe. "In social networking, there is a huge advantage to have scale. You can find almost anyone on MySpace and the more time that has been invested in the site, the more locked in people are".

If it were a country, MySpace would be the seventh biggest, ahead of Russia and Bangladesh, though not all users are active. It had 153,339,321 users when I started writing this article and 153,523,640 when I had finished. What does this growth bode for the future? For the first time a like-minded media generation will grow up interacting instantaneously: globalisation personified. Maybe we won't need CVs any more as our lives will be there online.

But will commercialisation kill the culture that spawned MySpace? The $900m (£450m) three-year deal Google did to put its adverts on MySpace is, reportedly, being renegotiated. Upwards. When I visited the site this week I was met by offputting flashing adverts. Logging on I was then greeted with a loud video advert there was no obvious way of turning off. Good job I was not in a library.

That doesn't bother MySpacers and they don't seem bothered by other matters. User-generated content, for instance. MySpace is a huge generator of it, maybe the biggest, but users don't get paid. But why not? Google, the owner of YouTube, the vast site that hosts video clips, is under siege from corporations, doubtless including Murdoch's Fox empire, to get royalty income from those clips. Yet MySpace creams off all the advertising income associated with user content without which MySpace's goldmine would vaporise. The difference is that YouTube's predators are large corporations, whereas consumer power is diffused among over 150m individuals on MySpace. Maybe they should form a virtual trade union.

[Ryosuke]

Ha! I wrote about quasimode on my mixi blog, and apparently their percussionist read it. I'm glad I didn't write that they suck or anything (they don't - they're damn good).

I need to be more careful with these blog things. I never really envisioned the possibility of it being read by the musicians I write about...

[strawman]

am I the only person left in the developed world without a myspace acount..or yahoo..or msn...or hotmail..yes I might be, and proud of it

[loudaab]

strawman said:

am I the only person left in the developed world without a myspace acount..or yahoo..or msn...or hotmail..yes I might be, and proud of it

why would you be proud of these thigs? explain please

[skvorisdeadsorta]

Alright, Strat, please just ban this guy already? He knows why. PEW is a bait and switch and this is just getting tiresome and I don't feel like having my intelligence insulted anymore. Please, please, please, for the love us just ban the guy.

[RocDoc]

'Bait and switch' definitely.
The only way he got on here was to misrepresent himself.

Again.

It's reflexive, and even though he nearly always gets his ass handed back to him, he's just too dim to to realize that people REALLY aren't as stupid as he seems to cluelessly (albeit completely wholeheartedly) believes.

Dude's honestly a sad and pathetic (and likely pathological, given his unrelentingly obsessive behavior all over the internet) case.

[RocDoc]

Ok, oops, DFTT.....sorry.