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Kelsey Jordahl
@kajord
A confession: when it comes to music. I still like to listen to complete albums. Not on vinyl or anything - a 160 GB iPod on album shuffle.
11/3/2016, 9:46:58 PM
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It is a bit sad to me that the album is fading away, and music is listened to in that form less often.
11/3/2016, 9:48:03 PM
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So I found an interesting aside this week in the @NYTimes book review on an essay in a book by Nicholas Carr http://nyti.ms/2dzGqtq
11/3/2016, 9:50:04 PM
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Clay Shirky writes "'Long Player,' his 2007 argument about the album format as an aesthetic unit, is subtle and capacious."
11/3/2016, 9:51:05 PM
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Which led me to go looking for that essay from Nick Carr on his blog http://www.roughtype.com: 404 (page not found).
11/3/2016, 9:53:27 PM
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Luckily there is the Internet Archive, and the essay still exists online: https://web.archive.org/web/20120207075805/http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/05/long_player.php
11/3/2016, 9:54:07 PM
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Then I went looking for Clay Shirky's response. Also 404. To the Internet archive again: https://web.archive.org/web/20120206005759/http://many.corante.com/archives/2007/08/01/new_freedom_destroys_old_culture_a_response_to_nick_carr.php
11/3/2016, 9:55:08 PM
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If that is the fate of two essays mentioned in the NY Times in the past month, how much else are we losing that we won't get back?
11/3/2016, 9:56:54 PM
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Blog posts are dying a swifter death than the album has.
11/3/2016, 9:57:33 PM
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As my offline iPod playing full albums from a spinning disk starts to feel like an antique, so too do disappearing blog posts <10 years old.
11/3/2016, 10:01:02 PM
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