Online audio metaphors defined
In the near future, the majority of the world's audio content will be produced and consumed by the online world.
A clear separation of offline and online audio creation and distribution needs to be defined today to create and guarantee an open future for online audio not defined by the rules and habits of the offline analog audio world and it's past (and baggage).
One of the ways to start separating and serving the emerging online audio messaging world would be to create a language, a set of metaphors that represents and serves exclusively the needs of the online audio file/messaging world.
Album, artist and track are metaphors from the old offline analog music world. In the offline world the audio message is packaged for physical distribution and the metaphors defined above make sense.
But online, using metaphors like website/weblog (to replace album), web/audioblog master (to replace artists) and file or audiomessage (to replace track) would make more sense to describe what's really happening in the emerging online audio space today.
Online audio producers and linkers, audioblog masters?, should demand and find ways to keep their emerging art/media unique, correctly represented online, separated and not confussed with the offline audio world.
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