Monthly Archives: April 2003

Weblogs: The Stats

Number of new weblogs launched per day, according to Terrence Smith’s report on the NewsHour last night: 2,160 Number of professional journalists with personal weblogs who have recently been forced to stop blogging by their employers, according to Mark Glaser’s latest column: 3 Average American newspaper reporter’s base salary, according to Salary.com, in dollars: 31,092 [...]

Music About Music

In his new meditation on the turntable in ctheory, Seattle writer Charles Mudede calls upon Heidegger, Marx, Walter Benjamin, Afrofuturist David Goldberg, DJ Marley Marl, Russian Formalist Viktor Shklovsky and, unfortunately, Tone Loc to shed light on the true essence of the turntable. Worth a read, as he goes miles beyond the typical turntablist refrain [...]