Comments on: ccMixter: A Memoir http://virtualturntable.fourstones.net/ccmixter-a-memoir Tips, tricks, technology reviews, previews and musings on the current state of affairs in music and audio software for personal computers. Thu, 17 May 2012 14:23:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on ccMixter: A Memoir by: Marco Raaphorst http://virtualturntable.fourstones.net/ccmixter-a-memoir#comment-36799 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:12:02 +0000 http://virtualturntable.fourstones.net/ccmixter-a-memoir#comment-36799 I will print it and probably blog about it. I will print it and probably blog about it.

]]> Comment on ccMixter: A Memoir by: gurdonark http://virtualturntable.fourstones.net/ccmixter-a-memoir#comment-36290 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:04:19 +0000 http://virtualturntable.fourstones.net/ccmixter-a-memoir#comment-36290 I liked this. I think it's good to start the piece, as you did, with a bit of historical context. I like the way you recognize how this particular social networking site works very differently from other social networking sites. The idea of a remix as a different thing/surrogate/better thing than a weblog post occurs to me a lot lately. My own sense of activism focuses less on how mixters could achieve more economic aspirations (though of course that's aworthy goal) than upon ccmixter's ongoing role as a basis for sharing across platforms--the move from "look at me on this website on which I post and vote for how good I am" to "take this work, use it on your website, in your classroom or in your film. Remold it if you will. Pay nothing. Give credit". This form of social media/social currency, a new kind of digital parlor music exchange perhaps, has all sorts of potential beyond the "so you wanna be a rock n roll star" aspect. CCmixter is not the only site which "gets" this, nor the only part of the musical sharing economy movement, but the mixter (through your assistance) understood from the get-go the podcast/video/sample pool/free-fun-music-exchange aspect of all this. Four years is such a short time, and yet so much has happened. This piece is a reminder of how it all worked. I liked this. I think it’s good to start the piece, as you did, with a bit of historical context. I like the way you recognize how this particular social networking site works very differently from other social networking sites. The idea of a remix as a different thing/surrogate/better thing than a weblog post occurs to me a lot lately. My own sense of activism focuses less on how mixters could achieve more economic aspirations (though of course that’s aworthy goal) than upon ccmixter’s ongoing role as a basis for sharing across platforms–the move from “look at me on this website on which I post and vote for how good I am” to “take this work, use it on your website, in your classroom or in your film. Remold it if you will. Pay nothing. Give credit”. This form of social media/social currency, a new kind of digital parlor music exchange perhaps, has all sorts of potential beyond the “so you wanna be a rock n roll star” aspect. CCmixter is not the only site which “gets” this, nor the only part of the musical sharing economy movement, but the mixter (through your assistance) understood from the get-go the podcast/video/sample pool/free-fun-music-exchange aspect of all this.

Four years is such a short time, and yet so much has happened. This piece is a reminder of how it all worked.

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