>is as or more expensive than just about any person posting in
>here about their product and work flow, the years of research,
>nearly 100 hours of interviews with well over 60 artists, the
>mixing, the EQing, the writing I do for my Audio Documentaries
>is the kind of shit you get paid $500-$1,500 for a 30 minute
>piece on public radio.

I asked about how much actual financial investment is channeled into the production of your podcast... Not about your man-hours or labor.

Because (unfortunately) it would appear that in the current conversation about digital "content", the overriding feeling amongst "music should be free" champions is that labor is an irrelevant factor that is worthy of neither reward or even mention.

>It's not just some "fucking podcast," which in itself feels
>like pejorative when there are entire business models based on
>that kind of content.

I'm pretty sure I didn't call it a "fucking podcast"... I called it a "podcast." Which is what it is, right? How on earth is it pejorative to call it what it is?

Seriously: WHO is sounding hurt here?

>If you're uncomfortable with the word content when that's what
>it in fact called then you're probably unfamiliar with the
>entire conversation around digital content, digital content
>distribution, value, etc.

I'm quite familiar with the conversation and I partake of that conversation in my professional life.

However, the fact that this conversation is widespread does not render it immune to critique.

Perhaps because I come from a place where an album of music is assumed to (or at least aspired to) hold more cultural import... I find it sad to reduce it to "content," the same term that you would use to describe the words on some gossip blog or the low-quality amateur porn videos on a tube site.

>If that's the case why are you arguing as if you are?

To be honest, I don't even have to be cognizant of that conversation in order to hold the conviction that reducing music to "content" is probably not an inspiring cultural trend.

In a previous reality, I took similar exception to music being summed up as "product."

I think "content" is worse, though.