This article appears in the New York Times today:
"Myspace Cuts Workforce by 30 Percent
The social network MySpace is reducing its staff to cut costs in an effort to return to what it calls a “startup culture.”
MySpace, a division of News Corporation, said the layoffs would
affect all American divisions of the company and lower the total number
of staffers to around 1000."
The first thing I thought when I read this was:
Myspace has a staff? It doesn't seem like there's more than one person running this thing, and it seems like that one person has more important things to deal with most of the time, like finishing the rest of his bong hit or checking under the sofa for leftover pizza. Well, okay then, myspace has a staff. Then why is it still so buggy and ugly? Why has it been over-run by spam? Why do I always have to type Captchas just to send a message to my friend?
It would be nice if the government would step in to this muddled online social networking situation and just find a way to merge all the users and best features of myspace, facebook and twitter, and give us something that everyone is a part of, something that can properly play music and report tour dates, something that can keep everyone in touch and not be bogged down by dancing aliens trying to offer better car insurance.
Oh well. Until that time, I am now consolidating my tour diary posts to just be in one place, at www.localcut.com. Here is a link to my direct page:
http://blogs.wweek.com/music/author/nick-jaina/
Also, I will be writing posts more regularly. And not just tour diaries, but other stuff too. They should be going up every Thursday.
Thank you for reading, thank you for listening. I hope we can all get through this strange time together.