I don’t get how it’s supposed to work. There will be a new “My Sun” community based on MySpace software? Or are they thinking of something else.
MySpace works in my mind because it’s blogging without all the “writing” and “thinking” keeping an audience demands, all that stuff replaced by the raw sexuality music unleashes and that young attractive people – rightfully – want in on. You listen to music and look for hot girls (or guys) there, because it’s like a giant online concert, composed of personals and band pages. Conversation is easy to make, because you can start it by saying, “Hey, I saw this band recently, why don’t you check out their page and listen to some stuff?” (That the grammatical version. The Myspace version would involve phrases like L8OR H8OR’s or something).
I could be wrong about this, though. There might be something more sophisticated to MySpace. I’ve found a classical composer there who is very good, and I’ve found a few friends who talk about literature with me. So I dunno.
Ashok, one could argue that The Sun is a newspaper without all the “writing” and “thinking” readers of other newspapers demand, so in that case it is a good match.
On the other hand, The Sun might be the UK’s best-selling paper but it is a bit of a joke among hip, online “digital citizens” (or so you’d think, if digital yoof was as clued-up as people like R. Murdoch tell us it is).
And the reaction is mostly negative, but not as vehement as you may think, at http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2006/03/myrupertcom.html#more
That might explain this http://techcrunch.com/2006/03/14/fox-to-acquire-startup-newroo.
I don’t get how it’s supposed to work. There will be a new “My Sun” community based on MySpace software? Or are they thinking of something else.
MySpace works in my mind because it’s blogging without all the “writing” and “thinking” keeping an audience demands, all that stuff replaced by the raw sexuality music unleashes and that young attractive people – rightfully – want in on. You listen to music and look for hot girls (or guys) there, because it’s like a giant online concert, composed of personals and band pages. Conversation is easy to make, because you can start it by saying, “Hey, I saw this band recently, why don’t you check out their page and listen to some stuff?” (That the grammatical version. The Myspace version would involve phrases like L8OR H8OR’s or something).
I could be wrong about this, though. There might be something more sophisticated to MySpace. I’ve found a classical composer there who is very good, and I’ve found a few friends who talk about literature with me. So I dunno.
Ashok, one could argue that The Sun is a newspaper without all the “writing” and “thinking” readers of other newspapers demand, so in that case it is a good match.
On the other hand, The Sun might be the UK’s best-selling paper but it is a bit of a joke among hip, online “digital citizens” (or so you’d think, if digital yoof was as clued-up as people like R. Murdoch tell us it is).
Neil – thanks. I don’t read the Sun, so I have no clue.