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As you may know the famous Rosetta Stone, now located in the British Museum, was instrumental in helping Egyptologists to decipher the principles of hieroglyphic writing and it has now become emblematic of finding the critical key to decrypt or translate a difficult problem.
Today, the growing mass of information and diverse Content on the web is one of the most difficult problems to solve in an increasing digitized world. In our case, (i) more and more musicians keep uploading music on sites like MySpace and now, as a cleaner alternative platform, on sites like Fuzz and (ii) others provide more and more diverse commentary about music, some substantive, some whimsical but valuable nonetheless to enrich our lives.
What is needed is a Rosetta Stone to help us decrypt the mysteries of the Web, and more specifically relevant to this web-based social music community, to help us to find order in chaos as it relates to music and things the music touches [which is pretty much everything]. What to do?
Although it is becoming a broken record of my voice about it, I think that this new BBcode tool is fabulous and will revolutionize the way musicians can be educated and marketed as more participants use and expand the possibliities of this limitless linking of web Content BUT WITH FOCUSSED 'VALUE INDEXING'.
Linking infinitely expanding web Content with personalized Content Discovery Tools [as made available by a simple application of the BBcode as it works on this platform] is key.
As musicians and music business managers in search of an edge and distinction. getting out in front with a new approach to creating order in web-chaos, by innovative use of platforms like Fuzz enhanced by BBcoding!!! may well provide critical early-mover advantages to be heard above the noise. So says this newly converted Evangelist of the Possible after discovering my own Personal Rosetta Stone to unlock both the mystery and chaos of the web.
TCC - Vox Clamantis in Deserto [The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness]
Today, the growing mass of information and diverse Content on the web is one of the most difficult problems to solve in an increasing digitized world. In our case, (i) more and more musicians keep uploading music on sites like MySpace and now, as a cleaner alternative platform, on sites like Fuzz and (ii) others provide more and more diverse commentary about music, some substantive, some whimsical but valuable nonetheless to enrich our lives.
What is needed is a Rosetta Stone to help us decrypt the mysteries of the Web, and more specifically relevant to this web-based social music community, to help us to find order in chaos as it relates to music and things the music touches [which is pretty much everything]. What to do?
Although it is becoming a broken record of my voice about it, I think that this new BBcode tool is fabulous and will revolutionize the way musicians can be educated and marketed as more participants use and expand the possibliities of this limitless linking of web Content BUT WITH FOCUSSED 'VALUE INDEXING'.
Linking infinitely expanding web Content with personalized Content Discovery Tools [as made available by a simple application of the BBcode as it works on this platform] is key.
As musicians and music business managers in search of an edge and distinction. getting out in front with a new approach to creating order in web-chaos, by innovative use of platforms like Fuzz enhanced by BBcoding!!! may well provide critical early-mover advantages to be heard above the noise. So says this newly converted Evangelist of the Possible after discovering my own Personal Rosetta Stone to unlock both the mystery and chaos of the web.
TCC - Vox Clamantis in Deserto [The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness]
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I really do hear what you're saying. For me, I've always looked at my computer and all computers as a very powerful tool. Beyond that, I look at the content that I and others created with their tool as smaller information tools, and those are placed in their appropriate "tool box".
I do the same on the web, my browser is a tool box to place the things(online data)I use the most in their most useful place, so that I can get at it when I need it.
Keeping it simple has kept the web from becoming too overwhelming for me. And I'm glad that the web is vast, I add data to my "tool boxes" as I need them. Since there are over 40 million websites available, I look at them one at a time, and use just what I need. Hope this helps.
BB
Yes, it does help to be able to visualize what is going on with (i) your computer, (ii) your operating system, (iii) your browser, and (iv) the web; to organize and simplify to prevent overload; and to make everything work for you rather than just to add to the confusion.
I gather from [BB's] description that you think of the whole "IT and internet thing" [this "thing" is the way I look at it] working together for you as an increasing number of specialized tools within a cascading series of tool-boxes, all organized for you at your work-place to pick and choose as needed.
The way that I visualized this, to me, mysterious "IT and internet thing" was, and I guess it still works best for me, to see it as a vast filing system for Content[rather than my tool boxes for tools], with sub-files upon sub-files upon sub-files to hold my papers or copies of third-party papers, notes, clippings, etc. [i.e., all the Content that I generated myself or pulled out of the web that I wish to preserve].
That is why, when I found my personal Rosetta Stone to unlock the mysteries of the Web and to place Content where it was more easily accessible [in this case, my Profile page], I called it an "Index" [to verbally tag and link to various files and sub-files]. Perhaps, in BB's case, rather than a "Value Index" , what you have working for you is your "Musician's Tool Guide" [or some such mental framework].
Beyond, the foregoing mental framework operating in relation to a computer, operating system, browser, and the web, I see several additional elements in this "IT and Internet thing" that just may be unique to Fuzz, namely a dedicated music social community, an artist-centric platform, and a company operating as a music label, as the company describes itself on this site and in various news releases.
And beyond all of this, and this is where my notion of a Rosetta Stone to decrypt it all comes into play, rather than just having each individual on the Fuzz site to use his/her personal "tool-box" or "massive filing system" in a way that works only for the individual, the BBcoding device permits each individual to create verbal tags to all the "linkages" one finds useful, enlightening, or entertaining for his/her mental framework and offer the "Value Guide/Index" as a powerful Content discovery "tool" to share with others all in one place, like the "Rosetta Stone" in your own, highly personalized and formated "[British] Museum".
The problem, as I see it, is that even if one devises a great tool-box [or filing system], the data [great music, commentary, videos, and so on] grows at a much faster rate than the ability of a single individual to keep track of it, and in time, the whole thing just "overwhelms" and reverts to a chaotic mess [a lot like my desktop]. Hopefully, Fuzz will be able to operate on the delicious and dangerous Edge of Chaos rather than descend into it.
The Rosetta Stone [here the simple BBcoding trick] is what demystifies the mysterious in this "IT and Internet thing" for the clue-less [like moi] because -
(1) as Will very succinctly and clearly put it, THE BEST THING ABOUT BBCODING IS THAT IT WORKS RIGHT INTO THE TEXT YOU ARE ALREADY ADDING - this gives everyone, already much-harassed with information overload [and we all are], an instantaneous one-word or cryptic phrase summary of Content, and
(2) everyone on this site is a potential pathfinder [to move away from tools and files] for everyone else.
This is the power of "Wikinomics", Fuzz, and the Music Uprising, and now this "Rosetta Stone".
In my view, this notion of using the power of discovery that is within each person who visits this site, AND MAKING IT IMMEDIATELY AND INTUITIVELY ACCESSIBLE TO OTHERS AT ONE QUICK GLANCE is so important, I will continue to speak to this point from various angles so each of us participating in Content development and discovery on the Fuzz platform can better help oneself, and in the process help others.