Another little poll

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This one isn't for work!

[Poll #945719]

I'm using "MP3" to mean any kind of downloadable audio format. Also, there is a fifth question, which needs more than a text box probably, and it is this: What if anything changes in your writing when your readers can hear the subject of it immediately?

Comments

[pot80.livejournal.com]

What if anything changes in your writing when your readers can hear the subject of it immediately?

You know, I don't know if I have the frame of reference to answer this well. I've been working in that template for a really long time, and basically learned how to be a music critic within that format. When I'm writing regular reviews for other publications, I think I just assume less about the audience knows, but that's more to do with who I think my audience is -- ie, people who already know a lot, and I can get away with being a bit obscure or informal because most people will be on the same page, or at least in the same chapter.

[pot80.livejournal.com]

Well, actually here's one idea -- I think when the song is right there and can be downloaded, you are acting as more of a salesperson in that you're trying to convince the reader to go through the effort of downloading and listening to it. The writing has to be more persuasive, maybe.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

The other aspect about this is that no one is ever going to post an mp3 of something they don't like.

Plus if, the song is not right there to be downloaded, if the author actually likes it, wouldn't they try to sell it harder. It's much more effect to go find the song/album (or even gasp! go out and buy it) than simply right click.

[pot80.livejournal.com]

That's mostly true. Sometimes I put up stuff I just barely like because I want to write about it (for example, that post I did about Bright Eyes a month ago), and there have been other times when I'd damned interesting things with faint praise. I'm probably not super representative though. Lord knows a majority of my blogging peers have no interest in writing, much less writing critically.