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Benn Jordan

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Benn Jordan's personal blog at bennjordan.com covers culture, politics and economics. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “The Digital Music Industry Is Inept (2012)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.

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11mentions?
5HN people?
2012–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in an HN thread on a 2012 post titled 'The Digital Music Industry Is Inept', which concerns problems in the digital music business. One commenter cites it as still relevant to their own point.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Digital Music Industry Is Inept (2012)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-10-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. Yes, though it appears that he is still having related issues[0] and so I guess the spririt, if not the letter, of the 2012 post still rings true. [0] http://www.bennjordan.com/blog/?p=625

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    on “The Digital Music Industry Is Inept (2012)”
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