THE FINGERTIPS COMMENTARY    

The Fingertips Commentary will be updated whenever the mood hits me that it's time for a new one.

Although the Commentary will appear on the web and is a first-person observation, it will by design have little in common with a so-called "rant" (as found on a typical blog); I model the Commentary page instead after a traditional magazine essay in length, structure, and tone.

That said, this is most certainly a web site, and I'm not averse to using a bit of the technology available to me here. In particular, I am taking advantage of the capacity to link, occasionally presenting some adjunct or tangential material on a separate page from the Commentary itself. Whenever you see any text in green, it indicates that there is a related comment on a separate page; click on the green text and you'll be taken there.

Commentaries to date are as follows:

"Got to Do What You Should" (A Free and Legal MP3 Manifesto) - 26 Jan 09
"The Sound of a Brand New World" (What to make of the In Rainbows experiment) - 10 Jan 08
"The Future (or not) of the Album" (How the CD, not the internet, slayed the album) - 2 Aug 07
"The Secret...okay, a different one" (Examining the reality of bad opinions) - 24 Mar 07
"Foulplay" (Why critics hating Coldplay reflects worse on them than the band) - 16 Jul 05
"14 Arguments for the Elimination of Pop Music Critics" (Self-explanatory) - 10 Feb 05
"Alarmed" (Getting a handle on 50+ years of rock'n'roll) - 16 Mar 04






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