Music blogs don’t give each other credit for starting the buzz around new bands, singles and leaks, and it is hurting the music blogosphere’s rise.
When I say credit I mostly mean linking. Music blogs don’t know how to link to each other acknowledging that somebody started the buzz first. Let’s say an original music blog like PTNOTR (or Fluxblog or Disco Dust) receives a mp3 file in their email inbox straight from the band that created it. And, they like what they hear and decide to completely freak out and write a exclamation-packed post on the single.
Then you see the same song on a dozen other music blogs throughout the next week with no credit going back to PTNOTR for breaking and promoting the song. This lack of credit linking is a huge problem that is prevalent on most music blogs.
It’s a problem because it doesn’t properly lend to blog conversations, isn’t search engine-friendly, and can’t be properly aggregated. These are all factors that help blog conversations grow and develop and build original voices. They’re also elements when absent can completely leave a blogosphere flaccid and untrackable.
It’s almost as if a whole bunch of people are having the same conversation in different rooms. If you’re in one room with one music blog there is no way to hear the other ones.
There are hundreds of music blogs out there with decent reader bases, straight-from-the-source music content and original editorial voices but they don’t have anywhere near the prominence that tech blogs have due to a lack of linking (I know, tech blogs and music blogs isn’t a fair comparison, but still the point is valid).
This lack of linking and credit giving is stopping well-known editorial aggregators like this one from building music aggregators to track daily music blog conversations. And, I’m not talking about aggregating mp3 files like talked about here.
This problem sucks for a huge music fan like me who can’t possible cover a hundred music blogs a day.
