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Actually I take back everything I said about being too self managing...It works just great. You just have to decide who the staff is to do the validation. I offer up myself as a candidate for that role. Plus the rating system will help out keeping the thing mostly self validating. On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 10:11 AM, Greg Kucharo wrote: > Well hell! This looks great Doug. I'd say we might have a winner > here. However, it too still feels a bit too self maintaining ala the > Wiki and current profiles. I dunno, it's probably just me. I'm sure it > could be modified to be less, er, self and more maintain. > > Next topic should be, how would Kim feel about putting this on the LD > website so it's official. I'll be happy to help keep the thing running > or otherwise wack it into shape. > > One small problem, the fonts looks really bad on the Safari browser. > > > On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 10:00 AM, Doug Cox wrote: > >> Greg & Bernhard, >> >> Not trying to create a competition or anything! :) I had already >> done this >> last night, and written most of this email, but was zonked so I >> decided to >> send it out today. Obviously, I'm going ahead with that plan, but I >> really >> don't want to create a confusing situation. Maybe everyone can have >> a look >> and make comments, and we can decide where to go from there? >> >> Everyone, >> >> I threw together a quick demo of the idea I had re: LD artist >> listings. It >> also seems to lend itself to individual audio file links, and to CD >> reviews, >> so I also integrated that idea into the demo. >> >> The link: http://www.mrscox.com/sslinks/links.php The root of this >> is my >> wife's website (she's an 8th grade english teacher). Please don't >> email her >> questions about diagramming a sentence or anything. :) >> >> The basic idea: >> Treat artist listings (and individual track links, and CD reviews) >> similar >> to old-school Yahoo listings. There is a primary set of >> characteristics >> that define the *browsable* heirarchy, but each listing also has >> specific >> fields for other characteristics, so that advanced *searching* can be >> done. >> This supports the idea that a few folks have mentioned, and that Andre >> proposed a list for - being able to build specific queries across >> these >> characteristics to find the artists, audio files, or cd reviews. >> >> In the demo, the pre-defined categories are "media" related - i.e., >> Artist >> Sites, Audio Files, CD Reviews, etc. Artist Sites *could* be >> sub-divided >> into sections for browsability. Something concrete would be good - >> like >> "home region of the world". >> >> Each listing/link then has a description and a set of >> characteristics. For >> demo purposes, I just kinda translated Andre's list: Desc, >> Genre/Style, >> Instruments, Looper, Reference Artist, Live vs. Studio approach, >> Compositional Approach, Year Released. These characteristics could >> be an >> endlessly debateable topic, so I'd suggest we not linger on it too >> long, and >> instead provide an interface like this: >> >> - for each characteristic, have the user choose a certain number of >> predefined values (3 Genre/Styles, for instance), and then also >> include a >> small freeform text area for them to add their own words. So, I could >> choose "Ambient", "Solo Guitar", "Electronica" and then type >> "rhythmic, out >> of tune, boring" in the freeform area. Those would all be >> concatenated >> together when someone does a search on "Genre/Style". >> >> Again, debating which list of Genre/Styles (or Live vs. Studio >> descriptions, >> or - heaven forbid! - Compositional Approaches) to use doesn't sound >> like >> fun. Maybe someone could just put a reasonable proposal on the table >> for >> each, and we go with that? >> >> You'll see that I mocked up the search page to handle all of these >> characteristics, but the gears aren't installed behind it to make it >> really >> work. :) Just giving a feel for how that interface might look. >> >> Would love to hear comments! >> >> Added today: Greg - if this looks like a way you'd like to go as >> well, let >> me know, and we could split up the work in getting it done. I >> suspect that >> with quick decisions on the various characteristics, we could get >> this up >> before the end of this week. The custom coding to be done is very >> simple. >> >> Doug >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Bernhard Wagner" <loopdelightml@nosuch.biz> >> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> >> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 9:55 AM >> Subject: RE: Narrowing the field (Re: Currently available looper music >> webpage) >> >> >>> I set up a prototype >>> >>> http://www.xmlizer.biz/cgi-bin/LoopersDelightReviews/kwiki.cgi >>> >>> Bernhard >>> >> >