Re: [uf-discuss] How to Announce the Availability of New Media Content with uf?

2005-12-13 Thread Ryan King
On Dec 13, 2005, at 5:52 AM, Jeff Harrington wrote: Also, as I'm sure you know, µf's are modeled after existing user behavior. So it might be worthwhile to see what artists are already doing to promote themselves and start there. Well, since I invented this whole 'internet musician thing'

Re: [uf-discuss] How to Announce the Availability of New Media Content with uf?

2005-12-13 Thread Jeff Harrington
Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote: Hi Jeff, On Dec 13, 2005, at 5:52 AM, Jeff Harrington wrote: Also, as I'm sure you know, µf's are modeled after existing user behavior. So it might be worthwhile to see what artists are already doing to promote themselves and start there. Well, since I invent

Re: [uf-discuss] How to Announce the Availability of New Media Content with uf?

2005-12-13 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
Hi Jeff, On Dec 13, 2005, at 5:52 AM, Jeff Harrington wrote: Also, as I'm sure you know, µf's are modeled after existing user behavior. So it might be worthwhile to see what artists are already doing to promote themselves and start there. Well, since I invented this whole 'internet musici

Re: [uf-discuss] How to Announce the Availability of New Media Content with uf?

2005-12-13 Thread Jeff Harrington
Ryan King wrote: 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 fi

Re: [uf-discuss] How to Announce the Availability of New Media Content with uf?

2005-12-12 Thread Ryan King
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

Re: [uf-discuss] How to Announce the Availability of New Media Content with uf?

2005-12-12 Thread Chris Messina
Yeah, but here's what would be better than a ping server... a ping spider So here's what I want. I want net radio, in the real sense. I want to tell my browser "give me 'rock, alt-rock, artist:disturbed, artist:elliot smith, like:eminem' and add it to a smart collection which will then go out

Re: [uf-discuss] How to Announce the Availability of New Media Content with uf?

2005-12-12 Thread Jeff Harrington
Duh... like a blog ping server. Right! Jeff Jeff Harrington wrote: Could you give me examples of functioning ping servers and the community/purposes they serve? Jeff http://jeffharrington.org Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote: Hi Jeff, I'm not sure exactly what problem you're trying to solve, b

Re: [uf-discuss] How to Announce the Availability of New Media Content with uf?

2005-12-12 Thread Jeff Harrington
toydi wrote: Hi Jeff, On 12/12/05, Jeff Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 Net http://beepsnort.org/archives/000402.html) Ins

Re: [uf-discuss] How to Announce the Availability of New Media Content with uf?

2005-12-12 Thread toydi
Hi Jeff, On 12/12/05, Jeff Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 Net http://beepsnort.org/archives/000402.html) Inspiring way to make u

Re: [uf-discuss] How to Announce the Availability of New Media Content with uf?

2005-12-12 Thread Jeff Harrington
A ping server... yeah that's what the del.icio.us works as in my proposal. The problem I'm trying to solve is that currently online musicians have to post, at umpteen online forums, announcements that a new song or album is available. And even then it gets missed by the majority of other musi

Re: [uf-discuss] How to Announce the Availability of New Media Content with uf?

2005-12-12 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
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 gen

[uf-discuss] How to Announce the Availability of New Media Content with uf?

2005-12-12 Thread Jeff Harrington
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 cre