Disclosure

I recognize that any blog about a commercially-available product or service should disclose any potential conflicts-of-interest the author[s] may have. This does not necessarily mean the author must blog under her/his "real name", even though that in and of itself can help the reader quite a bit in making a judgment about potential conflicts. It's the conflicts themselves that are important. Idolator has been hammering this point home specifically in reference to the Gerard vs. Bear music blog, whose anonymous author ["Gerard"] refuses to identify her/himself and -- more importantly -- any potential conflicts [A&R rep for a label? Chief programmer for KROQ? Manager for My Chemical Romance? etc.] s/he may have.

Fair enough.

I own 80 shares of stock in Time Warner Inc. [NYSE:TWX] Even though Time Warner sold its music business to Edgar Bronfman, Jr., and most of my posts will be about music, there is of course the chance that I will blog something that has some relation to the TW empire.

Thank you for listening.

P.S. AOL is waaay cooler than MSN.