Tuesday May 06, 2008 at 9:12
“Part of the joy of the mix (both making and receiving) was getting/hearing something that made you say “where did THAT come from?!” And of course, the mixtape merely offered you the track name. There wasn’t really any context, so a really obscure track could have an air of mystery about it that really added to the fun, and prompted attempts at one-upmanship. The same is true of forwarding links to your friends — you just send the youtube link, not usually where you got it from. And this keeps that sense of mystery, that great feeling of “where did they find THAT?!” But once you start blogging, it seems that the protocol is to reference where you got your article links, your weird remixes, your youtube links. The mystery is gone, you can see the wizard of Oz behind the curtain, it becomes clear that the main asset a blogger has is simply time.”
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putting the j in jjosh » Blog Archive » mixsion statement
Josh Granger*, comparing blogging to the ancient (lost?) art of mixtapes. Great post, pulling together many disparate strings. He’s less jaded about it than I am, but I agree with his conclusion: create more. It’s muuuuch harder and more frustrating than link blogging, but I’d rather have 1 person link to something of mine that they liked then 100 linking to something that I just happened to notice.
* I’ve been Googling Josh Granger for 12 years now, all “Why the hell doesn’t this guy have a blog.” So Amen to him finally turning up.
