Hosted by various WFMU personalities, Radio Free Culture is a weekly program that explores digital culture, net neutrality, piracy, the broadcast spectrum, digital rights, and archives and libraries in the internet age. We'll be interviewing some of the nation's key figures at the intersection of music, multimedia, and digital technology. This program is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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August 27, 2012: Radio Free Culture #3: The Rise and Fall of MP3 Blogs
Has the music blogosphere's golden age already passed us by?
In a guest post for WFMU and the Free Music Archive, the Future of Music Coalition's Casey Rae describes how government crackdowns, competition from streaming services, and a blurring of curatorial bounds are contributing to the decline of the MP3 blog.
Casey Rae joins the Free Music Archive's Jason Sigal and a panel of music bloggers past & present—including Matthew Perpetua (Fluxblog, Buzzfeed), Emilie Friedlander (The FADER, Ad Hoc, ex-Pitchfork's Altered Zones) and Doug Schulkind (WFMU's Mining the Audio Motherlode)—to discuss the state of the music blogosphere.
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Listener comments!
dvd:
Carmichael:
Matt from Springfield:
NOT "Culture Free Radio"!!
Matt from Springfield:
Danne normally listens in to these, but he's away the next few weeks. Might be busy.
mark vt:
Matt from Springfield:
Matt from Springfield:
I can't catch up on Archives for Danne, though as an informed commenter I am informing others about his whereabouts, in case they're worried that Danne has disappeared!
Danne D:
Danne D:
Matt from Springfield:
Fredericks:
NOT "Culture Free Radio"!!
Did I coin that phrase?
Fredericks:
Matt from Springfield:
Actually, I used that phrase on Clay P's playlist the afternoon before the first RFC aired--so at least, I was the first to *post* it online :)
Fredericks:
Fredericks:
Matt from Springfield:
Glad you're doing okay, storm-wise.
Danne D:
@Matt you must assume an appropriate Hearty White name btw.
Gotta get going, but have a great night folks :)
Matt from Springfield:
Matt from Springfield:
And have a great night! Be sure to get at least 3 hours of Archives a day!
Matt from Springfield:
Matt from Springfield:
Matt from Springfield:
dvd:
PiLA:
Bas, NL:
Doug Schulkind:
the glowing one:
Bas, NL:
the glowing one:
Doug Schulkind:
PiLA:
Matt from Springfield:
But that was a very thorough explanation of the legal side of things, and DMCA was actually well planned for the time, compared to the lobbyist-written (RIAA/MPAA) speech stifling and infrastructure destroying bills they're currently after.
D in Miami:
Matt from Springfield:
Thanks commenters for keeping this the brainy discussion forum it was intended to be! :)
PiLA:
Doug Schulkind:
Matt from Springfield:
Matt from Springfield:
Remember to come back in Sep (the 24th!)
Aron Blue: