I shall be out of town on urgent business for the next week. Listen to this while I'm away please. It's my own composition and reminds me of dark autumn days before a storm, of piles of swept leaves and dogs disturbing children and of dented bins rattling down a street in slow motion. Be safe everyone, back in a week.

Well said.
"The vast majority of weblogs are amateur and will stay amateur, because a medium where someone can publish globally for no cost is ideal for those who do it for the love of the thing. Rather than spawning a million micro-publishing empires, weblogs are becoming a vast and diffuse cocktail party, where most address not 'the masses' but a small circle of readers, usually friends and colleagues. This is mass amateurization, and it points to a world where participating in the conversation is its own reward."