[microsound] selfless promotion

[Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Randolph, you are correct in that calls for papers is not *self*  
promotion, but it is *promotion*...and that is not what the founders  
wanted this list for...
so let me say it again: there IS ANOTHER PLACE YOU CAN POST THAT SORT  
OF THING! it's called the microsound-announce list...sub to it and  
you'll be kept up to date on all the stimulating conferences,  
journals, concerts and CD's for sale...

again, most of the people who tend to drive-by post stuff for sale,  
concerts or calls for papers/posters etc are NOT regular contributors  
to the microsound community...
think of the announce list as a filtering algorithm: those who ONLY  
use the list for promoting something are filtered off to the announce  
list; those who want to contribute to interesting discussions can do  
so on the main list...
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as for myspace equalling self-promotion: Ralph, yes the WAY it was  
done this past week *was* very self-promotional but simply listing a  
link to a mp3 and asking for feedback from the list does not make it  
promotion...
so while the manner in which people poked their heads in and  
announced their myspace site WAS shameless self-promotion, people  
should feel free to post links to mp3s in order to SHARE music, not  
to promote it...there is a difference between sharing and  
promoting...it's a gray, fuzzy area at times but I think I know the  
difference...
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as for Myspace in general:
Myspace is a frickin' marketing scam...they're using YOU to spot and  
market trends so they can make you into better, more efficient consumers

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/murdoch.html
> "Step two is to turn MySpace’s teeming masses into a wholly new  
> kind of media entity, an advertising, marketing, and distribution  
> vehicle that gives News Corp. a hand on the steering wheel of  
> popular culture worldwide."
from the WIRED magazine article on Myspace

do you really want Rupert Murdoch driving pop culture worldwide?  
don't we have enough cultural globalism?
personally, I do not welcome the News Corporation overlords...