http://www.girlwonder.com/2006/04/grups-and-students-who-find-your-blog.html a corner of wonder on the web since 1995 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:48:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.girlwonder.com/2006/04/grups-and-students-who-find-your-blog.html/comment-page-1#comment-148 vanderwal Sat, 08 Apr 2006 21:14:50 +0000 http://www.girlwonder.com/2006/04/grups-and-students-who-find-your-blog/#comment-148 Along the music lines there seems to be a confluence of a few factors: poor management at record companies, miserable radio that aims at lowest common denominator, rap is the new rock, and we did not grow up. Another factor may also be that we are super media literate and have stayed attune to the changes in media taste through out our lives. We grew up sampling and acquiring our taste broadly, we had MTV (when they still played music), P2P, Internet radio, usenet discussions and downloads, robust college radio, diverse print media covering music taste, and diverse digital media coverage. We have "grown-up" discussions in our house as I keep picking up new music that I like and sampling widely from iTunes, XML radio, Amazon, P2P services, etc. (oddly my best resources are KLM in-air music options and videos and NPR). The other adult in the house has not greatly emerged her music taste, but is always asking what the people in her office are listening to. Along the music lines there seems to be a confluence of a few factors: poor management at record companies, miserable radio that aims at lowest common denominator, rap is the new rock, and we did not grow up.
Another factor may also be that we are super media literate and have stayed attune to the changes in media taste through out our lives. We grew up sampling and acquiring our taste broadly, we had MTV (when they still played music), P2P, Internet radio, usenet discussions and downloads, robust college radio, diverse print media covering music taste, and diverse digital media coverage.
We have “grown-up” discussions in our house as I keep picking up new music that I like and sampling widely from iTunes, XML radio, Amazon, P2P services, etc. (oddly my best resources are KLM in-air music options and videos and NPR). The other adult in the house has not greatly emerged her music taste, but is always asking what the people in her office are listening to.

]]> http://www.girlwonder.com/2006/04/grups-and-students-who-find-your-blog.html/comment-page-1#comment-147 harriedgirl Fri, 07 Apr 2006 17:44:30 +0000 http://www.girlwonder.com/2006/04/grups-and-students-who-find-your-blog/#comment-147 The article appears in <em>New York</em> magazine, not <em>The New Yorker</em>. The article appears in New York magazine, not The New Yorker.

]]> http://www.girlwonder.com/2006/04/grups-and-students-who-find-your-blog.html/comment-page-1#comment-146 Broch Fri, 07 Apr 2006 09:31:01 +0000 http://www.girlwonder.com/2006/04/grups-and-students-who-find-your-blog/#comment-146 Here here from a 35 year old grup.. I think that the key to the whole "Grup" issue is another trend that has been recognized over the past 5 years or so. It is called "Perpetual Adolescence." Our generation simply refuses to grow up. While not particularly alarming at this poing, I believe that there will be repurcussions in another 50 years or so. It would stand to reason if our ilk bring forth a new era of neo-conservatism. Here here from a 35 year old grup.. I think that the key to the whole “Grup” issue is another trend that has been recognized over the past 5 years or so. It is called “Perpetual Adolescence.” Our generation simply refuses to grow up. While not particularly alarming at this poing, I believe that there will be repurcussions in another 50 years or so. It would stand to reason if our ilk bring forth a new era of neo-conservatism.

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