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Thanks for the reply, Lucas. Yes, I am thinking about a ranking system. The way radio works is that middle men are able to buy airplay through mostly illegal means. That is what payola is and the so-called independent promoters rule whole areas of the country and the world as far as airplay on traditional radio. Even the investigations of the 50's barely dented that entrenched system. The citation I gave was from a fellow suggesting that the independent labels now thriving on the web would have to come up with a way to pump money into traditional radio to get market share. I suggest that a) As the new media continue to encroach on traditional media, less attention is paid to these payola providers. That could change. Everyone needs financing. On the other hand, costs are coming down because as the labels with their paid promotions are removed as middle men, producers (independent musicians, podcasters, etc.) are providing content for very reduced costs even free as a means to get their sound out there, create gigging opportunities etc. b) Still, bands want traditional airplay because a very healthy income results. The radio production staff doesn't have time to review. The web does and it votes on a regular basis. To help each other, a system for providing results is needed in a form that a traditional production staff can use to determine when an indie has produced an internet hit. Playlists are votes of a kind. So you have a service that a ranking service can use. That's cool. The web supports voting nicely. That is all that PageRank is. Now it is a matter of focusing on song downloads (one kind of vote) and streams (another kind of vote) and downloads+purchase (another kind of vote). Then there are the automated rating systems that players such as Windows Media Player provides. I don't know what droid-voting can be used for, but it is there. So yes, the web votes and in very large numbers. len From: Lucas Gonze [mailto:lgonze@p...] >2. This is a means to publish a playlist, not rank plays. You're thinking in terms of a vote system, or maybe the kind of collaborative filtering that relies on drones filling in forms. There's a reason why I did hypertext playlists instead of voting -- the web doesn't support voting, but it does hypertext very nicely.
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