I'm writing a comment here because I've got a music blog at 4cdmusic.com, and although it's tempting to just end there and move on, for this directory to be relevant I would think that there would need to be some way to narrow the definition of music blogs as to how they relate to web 2.0. But first, what makes a blog become web 2.0. I've followed the hype surrounding the recent phenomenon and tried to assess the definition of web 2.0 in general. Obviously there is more than a nice gradient, lots of whitespace, a relevant (but not overused) set of icons, a mirror logo and "the color set" of blues and greens(perhaps a center justified design to boot). Could it be that you should have the latest ajax and scriptaculous effects, or should the code be based on rails. To me, this is all window dressing for what many of us have been doing for years, I've been using api's and webservices for quite a while, as have many, many others before me. Perhaps thr entire web 2.0 phenomenon is pointed towards user involvement and empowerment. I've been doing bbs's, messageboards and usenet before my first download of mosaic, so this is not new either. Now pointing out what I feel may be more relevant to the 2.0 tag, online applications empowering the user to seek what he/she is seeking to accomplish with this hardware we all have sitting in front of us, and connect in a common way through that said application. In music this is Pandora, the old chains project, last FM, but, and I must say quite unfortunately, I'd have to argue that blogs in general do not fit the mold.

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