{"id":3837,"date":"2006-06-21T00:25:12","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T07:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/06\/20\/mog-lastfm-with-poorer-english\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T10:29:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T18:29:02","slug":"mog-lastfm-with-poorer-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/06\/21\/mog-lastfm-with-poorer-english\/","title":{"rendered":"MOG: Last.fm with poorer English"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6428,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.last.fm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260309044704\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.last.fm\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.last.fm\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5546,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.last.fm\\\/user\\\/djwudi&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260308110804\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.last.fm\\\/user\\\/djwudi&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.last.fm\\\/user\\\/djwudi&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 22:31:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 14:30:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 05:20:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 05:22:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 05:22:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6429,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/mog.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6430,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/mog.com\\\/djwudi&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/\" title=\"Last.fm\">last.fm<\/a> for some time now to track <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/user\/djwudi\/\" title=\"Last.fm: djwudi\">what I&#8217;m listening to<\/a>. I have no idea if anyone actually pays much attention to it, but it&#8217;s all handled for me in the background without my having to worry about it (as iTunes plays music, the last.fm client sends info on what I&#8217;m listening to to their servers), so I just let it go.<\/p>\n<p>Now there&#8217;s a new upstart service looking to do much the same thing, in much the same way. Sign up for <a href=\"http:\/\/mog.com\/\" title=\"MOG\">MOG<\/a>, download a small application (on Mac OS X, it&#8217;s a system preference pane), and MOG will track what you listen to and link it to other people with similar tastes. <a href=\"http:\/\/mog.com\/djwudi\" title=\"MOG: djwudi\">Here&#8217;s my MOG page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Right off the bat, I really can&#8217;t see what MOG offers that last.fm doesn&#8217;t already have&#8230;there really doesn&#8217;t seem to be much differentiation between the two services.<\/p>\n<p>Save for one little thing.<\/p>\n<p>Under a link called &#8216;Share my MOG&#8217;, you can <del>spam<\/del> notify all your friends of your new MOGspace. You can either write your own little note, or you can use the provided boilerplate text. All pretty standard &#8212; except that MOG&#8217;s boilerplate message made me cringe. Out loud.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  what&#8217;s up?<\/p>\n<p>  thought i&#8217;d share my spankin&#8217; new MOG page with you.<\/p>\n<p>  you can find it at: http:\/\/mog.com\/djwudi<\/p>\n<p>  MOG automatically creates a page for me that lets you see what&#8217;s in my music collection and what i&#8217;m playing (and does a whole lot more). There are serious music freaks hanging at MOG. see you in the MOG-O-SPHERE. later.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Out of seven sentences (well, six plus a farewell), not a single one is actually well written. Grammarians more versed than I would be more able to point out all the problems (and probably see some that I don&#8217;t identify right off), but&#8230;yeesh. Capitalization is nearly nonexistent, dropped subjects left and right, missing punctuation, and a general disrespect for the English language.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s bad enough that a disturbingly high percentage of &#8216;net users have little to no critical writing skills (or even <em>casual<\/em> writing skills, for that matter) &#8212; do we really need to <em>encourage<\/em> this wholesale slaughter of the language?<\/p>\n<p>Ick.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s high-falutin&#8217;, snobbish, and elitist. But damn if that isn&#8217;t enough to knock MOG several steps down in my estimation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" title=\"Get iTunes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms %253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DBeatles\/Franklin, Aretha\/Michael, George\/Scissor Sisters%2526songTerm=00 No One Takes Your Freedom%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for '00 No One Takes Your Freedom' on the iTMS\">00 No One Takes Your Freedom<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DBeatles\/Franklin, Aretha\/Michael, George\/Scissor Sisters%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Beatles\/Franklin, Aretha\/Michael, George\/Scissor Sisters' on the iTMS\">Beatles\/Franklin, Aretha\/Michael, George\/Scissor Sisters<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click. linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DBeatles\/Franklin, Aretha\/Michael, George\/Scissor Sisters%2526albumTerm=www.djearworm.com%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'www.djearworm.com' on the iTMS\">www.djearworm.com<\/a> <\/em> (2004, 5:15).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under a link called &#8216;Share my MOG&#8217;, you can notify all your friends of your new MOGspace. You can either write your own little note, or you can use the provided boilerplate text. All pretty standard &#8212; except that MOG&#8217;s boilerplate message made me cringe. Out loud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39,80],"class_list":["post-3837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}