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

[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
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> Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
>
>> 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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