nit picking, blip edition
23 Mar 09
What’s wrong with this excerpt from blip.fm’s FAQ page?
A blip is a combination of 1) a song and 2) a short message that accompanies it. The way you create a blip is to first search for a song that you want to hear (or a song that you want your listeners to hear), then add a short message (under 150 characters), finally you submit it. Submitting a blip is also referred to as “blipping”, so from here on out, when you read “he blipped my favorite track” it means “he submitted a blip that had my favorite song attached”.
In the first sentence, a blip is defined as a song plus a comment. Hence the example in the last sentence should read something like “he submitted a blip that included my favorite song”. The song is not attached to the blip, it’s one of two constituent parts. The example as written says “he submitted a [song plus a comment] that had my favorite song attached”.
One could, of course, leave the comment field blank, but there would still be a song plus a comment of zero length making up the blip.
Posted by pzed on March 23, 2009 at 1.59pm
