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Lately, I noticed that while checking out the "Recent Activity" on the Music page that the rate of artist sign-ups is accelerating faster than my ability to keep up with them [let alone going back and finding or rediscovering previous uploads]. This started me thinking about the problem of music density and quantity overwhelming music discovery and choice [although, perhaps over-abundance is a good rather than bad problem to have].
My knee-jerk reaction was to send out a few PMs [and then more public requests through blogs] to my contacts on the growing Fuzz music network of artists and fans to enlist their support in helping me [and obviously others] to sort through the multitude of songs that are being uploaded everyday, by creating more playlists. Then I could at least have other sets of "good ears" to help me with my own growing problem of finding, sorting, and playing great music [although, of course, I may not always agree on what is great, good, or just so-so - that's to be expected.]
I know that the Fuzz team is trying to prioritize site development and cooking up ways to enhance music discovery. However, to avoid the clutter and chaos of the OtherSpace, I thought it would be useful if, in the meantime, we took our own measures to aid progress of the Fuzz music uprising by creating more playlists as the "living benchmarks" of our changing aspirations.
What do you think?
My knee-jerk reaction was to send out a few PMs [and then more public requests through blogs] to my contacts on the growing Fuzz music network of artists and fans to enlist their support in helping me [and obviously others] to sort through the multitude of songs that are being uploaded everyday, by creating more playlists. Then I could at least have other sets of "good ears" to help me with my own growing problem of finding, sorting, and playing great music [although, of course, I may not always agree on what is great, good, or just so-so - that's to be expected.]
I know that the Fuzz team is trying to prioritize site development and cooking up ways to enhance music discovery. However, to avoid the clutter and chaos of the OtherSpace, I thought it would be useful if, in the meantime, we took our own measures to aid progress of the Fuzz music uprising by creating more playlists as the "living benchmarks" of our changing aspirations.
What do you think?
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Or maybe going with "August 2007 Favorites"?
WHO and What are you?
HHWLwWWC~SivleRane
http://www.fuzz.com/fan/TheCapitalClinic/blog/The-Fuzz-Sunshine-Transparency-and-Disclosure
I think the Fuzz folks [the next-Gen technologists :=)] are trying mightily to create some kind of "digital algorithm of playlists" in aid of music discovery based on some statistical "wisdom of crowds" filtering. Hopefully, this will help us with the inherent contradiction in the digital culture of music that you properly identify as a vexing quantity vs. quality puzzle that begs for solution.
Ironically and contrary to intuition, from most of the "wisdom of crowds" literature I've read recently [including a title to that effect and "Wikinomics"] about creating order out of disorder, diversity of opinion is a critical element to validate the "sorting algorithm." Thus, you can, and should, take comfort that people do not always agree when you create/curate your playlists of "true gems".