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

[koganbot]

I assumed without thinking that mp3 blog meant "free and usually illegal downloads" so would exclude Matt's blog and also would exclude stuff like Paper Thin Walls which has downloads (legal) with every track but has staff and editing and pays its writers so feels more like a magazine than a blog (though maybe that's barely a difference anymore, and Stylus Jukebox is now calling itself a blog though for practical purposes it's part of an online mag, and it doesn't provide mp3s but does link MySpace and YouTube so you can instantly hear anything).

Anyway, I'd have thought that in writing for Paper Thin Walls I'd be less descriptive and more inventive, but I'm inventive anyway, so that hasn't changed my style; my real difference there and for Jukebox is that in short form my social concerns often have to sneak in as subtext. Too many of the other PTW writers are still stuck in journalism mode and clutter up their blurbs with boring who what where and when, and the general PTW environment sneaks into my brain and stiffens my own prose somewhat, unfortunately.

[koganbot]

Though since PTW provides its downloads for free, I'm not sure why it wouldn't count, but I just feel like it's something different.

[pot80.livejournal.com]

There is nothing particularly legal about my site! The stuff I do professionally is legit and comes with the appropriate permissions, but my own site is totally wild west.