From: Olaf Molenveld (olaf_at_interactivelink.nl)
Date: 2004-04-18 18:33:10
nice graph ;)
i think this also has something to do with the decline in music
sales.....people don't have so much money to spend on music anymore? or
maybe it's not the fresh&new thing anymore, so people are looking elsewhere?
cheers, Olaf
----- Original Message -----
From: Carl Barimore <carl_at_stirtloe.fsnet.co.uk>
To: AJ List <acid-jazz_at_ucsd.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 6:18 PM
Subject: [acid-jazz] Is the Acid Jazz Server coming to an end?
I've recently rejoined the list after about a year, and have noticed that
the posts seem to have dropped off a lot. There seems to be the same number
of gig listings and playlists posted as usual, but all the discussion
in-between, on artists and on what's been in people's cd players, seems to
be almost non-existent now. I wondered if it was a quiet period, so I had a
look at the archives and, being the sad f*ck I am, I quickly went though and
copied the number of posts per month into Excel. When I had a look at the
graph (above), it showed that the list has had lots of regular up and downs
in activity, but then has suddenly gone into free-fall since July 2002.
Whereas there used to be between 300 and 600 posts are month, since 2003
it's barely topped 100 a month.
Anyone know why this is? This list used to be such a goldmine of info, with
lots of healthy discussion on genres hardly touched on elsewhere on the web.
I first joined the list in 2000 and got into so much different music because
of it. Some of my favourite artists I only found out about because of this
list, and if I needed a tune I.Ded, I knew I could ask about it here.
It'd be a right shame if the list died, but if the trend continues it might
be all over by 2005.
Anyone else got any thoughts on why this has happened? Is it because there
are lots of websites with discussion boards now, and mailing lists are no
longer very popular?
Carl