Fresh off the ol’ MySpace bulletin board comes the announcement of This Is Nowhere, a new music blog edited by John Doran that will feature writing from a veritable Who’s Who of academic and mainstream outlets, not to mention some recognizable bloggers and Internet folks (hello, Ned Raggett). Congratulations to all, but with that said, I’m a bit confused about the site’s “mission statement,” which derides publications who post about a gajillion records yet wants to be “an essential read guide to the best in new albums, reissues and related books, comics, graphic novels, TV series, DVDs and the like” and “have cutting edge audio visual content on the most noteworthy music and pop culture from the last 30 years.” I don’t want to start any blog warz, but well, it seems mighty contradictory to slag sites that are content-heavy. Just sayin’. [This Is Nowhere]
This Is Nowhere Stakes Its Claim, Uh, Somewhere
March 18th, 2008 // 17 Comments
idolator
so basically this just means that people are going to have to scroll through more text to get to the mp3 links.
(hello, Ned Raggett)
HI DERE.
@Ned Raggett: Be careful or you could lose your “Star Commenter” status!
I only just noticed that!
Dear Nowhere People,
Please give me work.
Love,
Dickdogfood.
looks like the writings of print journalists who haven’t adapted to this particular new technology. long. way too long. just can’t seem to get to the point. may be better suited for a photocopied zine.
do i have a star?
aww…
its like that 3rd grade spelling test all over again… except this time with even more despondent pants shitting.
Anyone who thinks that The Internet wants anything other than 2-300 two sentence reviews with numerical scores each month doesn’t understand The Internet.
As I’ve said elsewhere, The Internet doesn’t want well-written, long-form critical analyses; it wants tiny digestible niblets that keep the RSS reader filled with new distraction throughout the workday. Just ask Stylus magazine, or Nick Denton.
Just to be clear, I’m not saying this is how I am. I’m not talking about How Things Should Be(tm), I’m talking about How Things Are(tm).
yeah, hitting this whole blog with a big ol “TL, DR”
@Catbirdseat:
Catbird, you’re breaking my heart with talk like that.
@scott pgwp: Yes, not only is my glass half empty, it’s cracked and leaking badly, plus I think someone probably spit in it.
@scott pgwp: @Catbirdseat: Remember, like ten years ago, when the internet was going to connect us to the next Beatles or something but instead it just gave as a new permutation of fucking MGMT every ten days?
But the internet did give us the next Beatles… or have you never heard of VMPRWKND???
John Doran, editor of This is Nowhere, asked me to pass this on in response to some of the comments above:
“…thanks for the criticism but thinking to presume there is only one sort of internet user is so laughable it’s hardly worth commenting on but . . . never fear! We will be putting up lots of pictures and very short pieces for the young, the limited in intellect and the lacking in concentration span. I’ve just put a feature up on The Big Lebowski which is full of links, pictures and you tube inclusions. Only in a world in terminal decline would 1,100 words split up with loads of pictures and music be considered too much to read.
Cheers, John Doran”
Hey this sounds fun, I will read it.
Also, anyone who has already decided that this sort of thing is lame and/or awesome can also come by good ol’ Cave17.com and see how people without money do this sort of thing.