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Friday, April 23, 2004
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Musique libre et blogs
Jean-Luc Raymond has a pithy (if hypish, in places) summary of what
musiclogging is about that I felt deserved a bit of translation:
Libre Music and Blogs: A New Convergence with Musiclogs, Or, A Legal, Hyperlinked Peer-To-Peer
It will grow in the weeks to come, probably in an exponential manner.
Imagine a classic blog with a link list (also known as "blogroll").
Now, add a list of links to online songs that are free to stream and/or
download, legally provided by artists, labels, or portals. Everything
is legal, absolutely legal. The blogger thus shares his musical taste,
exchanging links with others.
There's obviously something in it for music creators with this
peer-to-peer system that is exclusively based on hyperlinks. They benefit from a promotional channel that goes beyond the usual
intermediaries (recording studio, label, distributor and online store)
and is recentered on the internet user who appreciates the music, makes songs known,
and invites others to link. This informal network that grows as the
links spread is called musiclogging. The artist gains a personalization
of the relationship with his public. There is a transition from music
as an industry to music as a craft.
 3:22:27 PM
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Thursday, April 22, 2004
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Musiclogging gets play (no pun intended)
Musiclogging gets play in the New York Times. (via Lucas) (Permalink generated via the NYT link generator's bookmarklet - spread the word, and help save the articles from linkrot!)
Also see Clay on Webjay and Alf who writes,
"Since the advent of P2P people have been desperate for ways to share
their knowledge of all this new music with each other. The trouble was
that to be able to share playlists online you need to be able to link
directly to the music files and be sure that the other person would be
able to download them. While it remained illegal to transfer the
majority of recorded music online, it's only recently, now that record
labels (mostly netlabels, but also old-fashioned labels that provide
downloads as samplers), MP3 blogs and enthusiasts who collect rarities
and live recordings have started to post tracks online, that we've been
able to create playlists directly linked to hosted files."
10:37:26 AM
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Wednesday, April 21, 2004
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Topics in weblogs
Seth Ladd's SemErgence weblog (which I found thanks to Jamie Pitts, whom I discovered because he listed himself on the wiki page I set up a few hours ago) has been concerning itself with topics in weblogs lately. It will be interesting to see where these efforts will lead - presumably it will turn out a little different from the Internet Topic Exchange and K-collector efforts, given the RDF bent.
Speaking of the Topic Exchange, next month I will be presenting a paper about it by Phil Pearson and myself, titled "A Topic Sharing Infrastructure for Weblog Networks" (pdf, 500k), at the Communication Networks and Services Research conference. Here's the abstract:
Weblogs have recently emerged as a
popular means of sharing information on the Web. While they effectively
foster the networking of participants on a one-to-one basis, so far
they have been lacking the capacity of allowing the establishment of
many-to-many communication relationships. This paper describes recent
work on facilitating group-forming processes and the sharing of content
among weblog authors with shared interests. We have designed,
implemented and tested the Internet Topic Exchange, a system that
enables weblog posts to be shared among open groups in the form that we
call topic channels. After nearly a year of operation, more than 200
topic channels have been created; several of them have been very active
and have brought together many participants. This suggests that our
approach to enabling weblog authors and topical content to cluster
while retaining the advantages of personal publishing is a viable one.
This post also appears on channel weblog research
6:43:57 PM
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Creating a self-organizing weblog directory
As everyone has noticed by now, the blogosphere is rather tricky to get around in, especially for newcomers, and the efforts at mapping it have remained pretty much scattered and fragmentary. Even if you restrict your view to the small space of academic weblogs, things aren't really better. Alex Halavais has launched into an effort of his own in that space, and upon reading this I've started a Wiki page
to help find a promising strategy for enabling a self-organizing
directory of research weblogs. You're welcome to contribute. Antonio
Granado and Catarina Reis, the curators of the PhDWeblogs database (which gets many things right), are also in on this.
"Old"-timers may recall that a couple years ago the weblog metadata initiative was started with a similar aim; alas, it seems moribund now, but it may be time to revive the idea.
Right now I see the most promise in a GeoURL-like
scheme with badges that link back and provide visibility and a metadata
harvester to collect the data. However, not everyone likes them badges (exhibit A:  , found while fishing for 'em), and the issue of having everyone fiddle with their main page
templates in order to register is an unwelcome obstacle.
But you know what would be great? (I hope some of the Six Apart folks will read this..) Having a badges section
in the management section, which would enable drag-and-drop addition of
badges to the main page's template. The process would work
like this: 1- You register at some metatag service and it gives you a
"badge code" (just a string of HTML). 2- You paste that code in your
badges section and your main page template is automagically updated to
show the newly added badge. Falls short of being ridiculously easy, but
I'm sure many people find the prospect of trying to locate stuff in
their template file daunting.
I think this should be an ongoing conversation, so I've created a Topic Exchange channel for weblog metadata.
Use it to draw attention to your posts that relate to that topic. If
you have a TrackBack-capable tool, just link to the channel's page from within your
post and a reciprocal link will show up. If not (or if it didn't work), use the form provided at the
bottom of the page.
1:03:39 PM
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Tuesday, April 20, 2004
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Monday, April 19, 2004
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Sunday, April 18, 2004
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Death of the soundbite?
Here's Gary reflecting on what the Cuban and Fripp attitudes toward media and embrace of self-publishing might mean for the future of interviews:
... among all those with the most to lose from journalistic license editorializings, who wouldn't want the final say of the un-spun self-published statement?
As a sidenote, I note that both Cuban and fellow billionaire Pierre Omidyar's
blogs are open to comments. For how long I do not know, but apparently
Omidyar reads his. Funny that you could perhaps more easily get these
guys' attention by knowing about their blogs than by being in physical
proximity...
(The attention allocation problem that the rich and famous face is one
that fascinates me, by the way. Take for example philanthropists. They
may have all the money in the world, it doesn't mean that picking out
who, by their standards, has the most promise to have a beneficial
impact automagically
becomes a snap for them. I guess similar considerations apply to
granting
agencies et al.)
10:56:50 AM
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