A Solid Call 2.0

: Salon.com Technology | iTunes -- the "i" doesn't stand for innovation: I missed this one from a week ago. A Salon columnist argues that selling singles will bring about the decline of the album -- and thus the decline of risk-taking and creative extension. This may be the case, but unfortunately I don't think that's an excuse to not give the consumer what she wants. It remains to be seen how the economics of music creation are changed, but it seems to me that ultimately whoever creates the most interesting content - singles, a series of singles, maybe a series of singles that become a unit of work -- will still prosper. A few off-base Salon-reader responses to the piece are here.