"Emergent Music: Uncover the undiscovered in new music is now officially launched.
In my own words I'd describe EM as:
A site with collaborative new music recommendations that the community in turn rates and then our fancy math (based on Bayesian statistics) figures out not only the best recommendations but also the best people at creating and improving them (who we then reward).
It's part MetaFilter, part Slashdot, part CNET, part Amazon and part Wiki. It's a place you can go everyday to find out about new music; new music that is being suggested by the community not new music which is being recommended by a radio station funded with payola." [Matt Goyer via The Shifted Librarian]
We've long (in Napster years) thought that such a collaborative-filtering mechanism would be a powerful way for the recording industry to figure out what's going to sell (instead of spending so much time and money convincing the market to agree with their notions of what ought to sell). We will certainly follow the progress of Emergent Music with interest.
