Hi Jeff,

I'm not sure exactly what problem you're trying to solve, but it sounds like what you really want is a "ping server" (or a few) that people can, well, "ping" to announce availability of new content. There's scalability issues, but as far as I can tell that's the only way to generate any sort of meaningful "announce" postings.

-- Ernie P.

On Dec 12, 2005, at 5:59 AM, Jeff Harrington wrote:

I've been thinking and researching for a solution to a problem independent artists have on the web. Because of the loss of the MP3.COM community, and the diaspora of OMD's online musicians have been dispersed and now find themselve unable to easily 'announce' their new works to other music creators and consumers. I've proposed at my blog, htttp://beepsnort.org a use of del.iciou.us tags to help in this process - (A Proposal for Announcing New Music Recordings on the Nethttp://beepsnort.org/ archives/000402.html) but now I'm beginning to think that microformats might be needed in order to additionally create a discovery phase of this announcement process. Also, my use of the example, mp3_classical_contemporary tag, would probably eventually lead to an over-abundance of announcements and pseudo-announcements as the community began using it. (Admittedly its a hack approach but does auto-generate podcasts hehe). Is there an implicit announcement mechanism built in already that I'm missing? Any research projects about how to 'announce'? I'm looking for practical solutions for the thousands of online musicians. I'm thinking at the moment of tying in my del.icio.us tag announcement with a discovery mechanism through uf's. If I trigger the discovery by an email list I think only spam will result.
Any ideas or suggestions?

Jeff
http://jeffharrington.org


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