Comments on: MILA pattern http://gonze.com/blog/2008/04/17/mila-pattern/ internet music technology since ~2002 Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:04:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: gurdonark http://gonze.com/blog/2008/04/17/mila-pattern/comment-page-1/#comment-434 gurdonark Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:55:38 +0000 http://lucasgonze.wordpress.com/?p=212#comment-434 That makes sense to me. I never got a Myspace Music page, because I thought other sites provided better widget-able hosting that could be imported into myspace. I agree that myspace's super-viral quality is great, especially when it comes to things like netlabels, which can easily get the word out to thousands more people than the excellent yahoo netaudio groups. I learn about people with kindred ambient/experimental tastes every month due to myspace. I like the idea of the hub site being a glorified web log, because I come to believe that just as text circumvented flash, so, too, will simple clunky weblogs supersede "fully loaded" sites. Myspace's curious genius, I think, is that realize that if you build a place where people can dump format and html code, then people will use it even if the interface is far from ideal. It's like the old college-bulletin board in the middle of campus at university. That makes sense to me. I never got a Myspace Music page, because I thought other sites provided better widget-able hosting that could be imported into myspace. I agree that myspace’s super-viral quality is great, especially when it comes to things like netlabels, which can easily get the word out to thousands more people than the excellent yahoo netaudio groups. I learn about people with kindred ambient/experimental tastes every month due to myspace.

I like the idea of the hub site being a glorified web log, because I come to believe that just as text circumvented flash, so, too, will simple clunky weblogs supersede “fully loaded” sites. Myspace’s curious genius, I think, is that realize that if you build a place where people can dump format and html code, then people will use it even if the interface is far from ideal. It’s like the old college-bulletin board in the middle of campus at university.

]]> By: lucasgonze http://gonze.com/blog/2008/04/17/mila-pattern/comment-page-1/#comment-433 lucasgonze Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:54:25 +0000 http://lucasgonze.wordpress.com/?p=212#comment-433 Ideally you'd use each of the spokes for the things it's good at and defer everything else back to your hub. Myspace has that super viral friending thing down pat, so you'd use your Myspace presence mainly for that. And since all of these sites want the media and it's always the same, you'd always defer that to the hub. Ideally you’d use each of the spokes for the things it’s good at and defer everything else back to your hub. Myspace has that super viral friending thing down pat, so you’d use your Myspace presence mainly for that. And since all of these sites want the media and it’s always the same, you’d always defer that to the hub.

]]> By: gurdonark http://gonze.com/blog/2008/04/17/mila-pattern/comment-page-1/#comment-432 gurdonark Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:42:07 +0000 http://lucasgonze.wordpress.com/?p=212#comment-432 The hub and spokes analogy is a good one. I think it's okay to have the multiple media of different sites to locate music, but the idea of a central hub is very good. The hub and spokes analogy is a good one. I think it’s okay to have the multiple media of different sites to locate music, but the idea of a central hub is very good.

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