Re: [microsound] I want myspace MTV

[Exegene <exegene@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Jason Hollis wrote:

> You seeem to forget:
> - If the effects of too much power in one hands come to pass, OTHERS can just
> as easily do exactly what MySpace has done, which is out do others in the same
> field in certain areas

OTHERS can't, at least if attention is fixed on "just as easily" and 
"exactly." That there is myspace means, at the most trivial, a 
would-be-myspace is instead an after-myspace. As a corollary the 
difficulty in achieving what would be myspace is not met with by the ease 
with which myspace came to be, the difficulties being differently 
constituted. To say nothing of mypsace possibly maintaining its position 
through conscious effort on the part of its operators, or the some kind of inertia 
of myspace users.

> - There are others already, such as LiveJournal and the rest of the
> Blogosphere, which can just as easily add the features that differentiate
> MySpace from them, and eat their lunch.
*snip*

Some portion of the identities of myspace, lj, et al., are their 
user bases. It's different people with, taken as a mass, different 
characteristics that move and are moved through the different social 
networking interfaces. If a certain portion of a population may be reached 
and thus enlisted to some social networking interface only through some 
other certain portion of that population, the difficulty of the prior 
portion's being reached by agents employing disjoint portions will likely 
differ by agent.

Anyway, no matter which operators happen to be most prominently operating 
any given portion of the history of myspace, lj, et al. there's the  
constancy of an operator's presence. Even microsounders post about 
introducing consciously created memes here and there. Isn't it reasonable 
to believe a corporation with obscene amounts of appropriate test data, 
gobs of money, and all kinds of marketing experience puts those 
microsounders' scheming to shame?




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