Last week, I joked that Gerard was lurking around my blog, and that Chris Ott may have "outed" himself in response to my earlier post about conflict-of-interest disclosures. I also noted Gerard's subsequent denial of Ott's "disclosure". Later that day, Idolator returned to the "who is Gerard?" subject to highlight Gerard's denial that Ott was Gerard.
Then, later again that same day, Idolator posted a piece about Technorati's "Popular Music" page, which post was headlined, "Bloggers Outside Of Music-Blog World Have No Idea Who Cold War Kids Are". When I saw that, I thought to myself two things: 1) "I could've written that headline, except it would've begun with 'BREAKING:'"; and 2) "Is it possible Maura is lurking around here too?"
Granted, lots of bloggers subconsciously absorb the phrasings and stylizations of other blogs they read and enjoy. Hell, I'll be the first to admit that I owe a lot [e.g., "Area Blogger"] to the snark of The Onion. And I loves me some Idolator. So, I can't really complain if I'm giving as good as I'm getting [whoa!]. It's all good.
Maura, if you're reading, hollaback girl! [Plus, I could use some advice.] Brian, same to you dawg!
Friday, December 22, 2006
BREAKING: Area Music Blogger Is Paranoid Other Music Bloggers Are Lurking
Saturday, December 9, 2006
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.
