{"id":8528,"date":"2021-06-07T11:27:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T15:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=8528"},"modified":"2021-06-07T11:27:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T15:27:29","slug":"linked-future-of-media-a-quick-reality-check-on-my-om","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2021\/06\/07\/linked-future-of-media-a-quick-reality-check-on-my-om\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: Future of Media \u2013 a quick reality check \u2013 On my Om"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1203,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/om.co\\\/2021\\\/06\\\/07\\\/future-of-media-a-quick-reality-check&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250812013739\\\/https:\\\/\\\/om.co\\\/2021\\\/06\\\/07\\\/future-of-media-a-quick-reality-check\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 18:50:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-22 06:46:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 20:40:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 12:59:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 12:59:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1204,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/about.me\\\/adam.chandler&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251103151553\\\/https:\\\/\\\/about.me\\\/adam.chandler&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 18:50:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-22 06:46:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 20:40:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 12:59:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 12:59:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Via Om Malik:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/om.co\/2021\/06\/07\/future-of-media-a-quick-reality-check\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Future of Media \u2013 a quick reality check \u2013 On my Om<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Let\u2019s take music journalism as an example. You are unlikely to stumble upon any new music through a traditional music magazine or even on many traditional music blogs. Instead, people are finding new musical acts on TikTok. \u201cMainstream music journalism is largely uninterested in promoting discovery, focusing instead on blanket coverage of superstars and seemingly endless traffic-grabbing lists \u2014 which may buoy an existing reader base, but often fails to capture newer, younger music fans,\u201d reported (ironically) Rolling Stone. \u201cEnter the upstart music blogs of TikTok.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2020\/05\/27\/i-am-a-writer\/\">this piece a year ago<\/a> but continue to think about it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Second and the more exciting reason this blog has died lately is because I have been writing more professionally. Yes, there is a huge time sink of emails &amp; documents for my 4 jobs but I\u2019m talking about professionally writing for magazines and publications. I will soon have my 3rd printed work in a motorcycle magazine and I write monthly columns for 2 motorcycle club newsletters. I publish long pieces on motorcycles forums and of course I am still consistently publishing to YouTube where I have around 200K views each month on my videos which nets me about $350. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I still publish to my blog about once a month when I feel something that needs to be said but if you look at my <a href=\"https:\/\/about.me\/adam.chandler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">About.me page<\/a>, you\u2019ll see links to places all over the web where I write publicly. My Newsletter, Podcast, Youtube channel and this blog receive about 10 minutes of content every day and then there\u2019s the writing I do professionally for work where I average today about 6,000 words each day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Blogging for me has become dispersed but I\u2019m still a blogger and always will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Via Om Malik:\u00a0Future of Media \u2013 a quick reality check \u2013 On my Om: Let\u2019s take music journalism&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-06-07T15:27:48Z","apple_news_api_id":"9bd4e1bf-36da-4365-bb9e-634bef6a2eb8","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-06-07T15:27:48Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Am9ThvzbaQ2W7nmNL72ouuA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-2dy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4918,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/09\/02\/linked-in-the-era-of-apple-music-does-the-ipod-have-a-future\/","url_meta":{"origin":8528,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;In the era of Apple Music, does the iPod have a future?&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"September 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"via 9to5Mac: \u00a0 Yes.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1989,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/03\/22\/ultra-music-festival-kills-unofficial-iphone-app\/","url_meta":{"origin":8528,"position":1},"title":"\u2605 Ultra Music Festival KILLS Unofficial iPhone App","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 22, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"via UMF Essential's website: We deeply regret to inform you that the UMF Essential iPhone app will be removed from the iTunes App Store within the next 24 hours, and thus will no longer be available for download. 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We don\u2019t know where this is going, we don\u2019t know what\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5051,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/09\/18\/technology-ive-cancelled-my-apple-music-subscription-living-in-the-future-is-rough\/","url_meta":{"origin":8528,"position":3},"title":"Technology: I&#8217;ve cancelled my Apple Music Subscription + Living in the future is rough","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"September 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Apple\u2019s 3 Month Music subscription will end soon and I\u2019ve decided to cancel. Why? It\u2019s kind of funny but like most technology use cases, I live on the fringe. What do I use Apple music for? 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