Response to Musical Musings

Matt,

Overall, great work.  After reading the introductory post, I realized the purpose of the blog.  Correct me if I am wrong, but I saw the point of the blog to be: raising awareness about the history and artistry of music, while attempting to preserve the fading classical influence on modern music.  But to be honest, I was not entirely sure how to word your mission.  In your description you may want to spell out the objective of your blog, in order to define your blog as an activist blog.

Scope:  Music is an extremely broad topic, but in your two posts I can see an emerging trend.  The Foo-Fighter's speech directly relates to the topic you stress in your opening post, so I feel the scope of your blog is well defined.  Like I said before, you just want to make sure you spell out the aim of your blog, or else it could be very broad and nonspecific.

Audience:  Much like the objective of the blog, you never directly assert an audience.  As a music lover, I enjoyed the blog and felt as if it was directed towards someone of my taste.  Although I do not listen to classical music, I still see the points your are making.  If I were you, I would say the blog is directed to music lovers of all types - not just people offended by the direction music is going.

Genre Elements: Your missing all of them.  If I were you I would stress the objective of your blog in the description, while forming you ethos in your about me statement.  You should say how you got interested in the topic or why your voice matters.

Technology + Layout:  I like the setup of the blog.  I use Blogger, but I really like the display Wordpress.  One major issue is the font change in your first post.  You need to make the font size bigger after you give the Webster's definitions; that is one major technical problem that you need to fix.  Another improvement you could make would be to add the video of the Foo-Fighter's speech, it is not necessary, but it will show off your mastery of technological formats.  With your topic, you have many options with technology.  If you embed songs, music videos, or interviews in your blog, you will definitely ace the technology part of the rubric.

Readability:  I have no problems with your writing style - great grammar and word choice throughout both posts.  The font change really hurts the readability of the first post, but otherwise, I had no problems reading your blog

Overall:  I like the topic.  You just need to make sure you explicitly define the topic, audience, and goal of the blog.  You have plenty of options for future posts.  Although our opinions on this topic may differ, I can see you point and enjoyed the way you illustrated it.