[cc-community] 10k great Free songs (was Re: Rcrd Lbl to offer CC and Free as in Beer Music)

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Tue Nov 20 18:30:07 EST 2007


On Tuesday 20 November 2007 18:05:21 Terry Hancock wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> Greg London wrote:
> >>Yes, search costs are incredibly high, but the task is fungible. :)
> >
> > You can crack wise all you want about "fungible".
>
> I don't think people are making fun of your using the word "fungible",
> so much as of the fact that it apparently can apply in multiple ways to
> this discussion, so it was a bit broad as an argument. :-)
>
> Or maybe they just think it's a funny word. :-)

I think I saw people being a bit amazed to find the way they were taking it 
and the way other's were taking it were different and figured that this had 
caused some funky debate between them.
>
> Regarding your point, I think you are ignoring the Delphi effect, the
> mainstream, and the genre segmentation of listeners.
>
> The argument from the Mythical Man Month about adding more programmers
> to a programming job is known to have significant exceptions in the area
> of open source software, and I don't think it applies here at all. It
> really has to do with systems that have extensive and inflexible
> interdependencies.
>
> In the area of collaborative reviews, we have several successful systems
> for collecting review data from many people and generating rated lists
> from it. This is how Amazon works, for example, and I am personally
> *frightened* by how well that system seems to have figured out my tastes.
>
> Listeners tend to group by genre, and radio stations suit themselves to
> particular ones. Thus, it's possible to have works that are rated "as
> Country & Western" or "as Electronica".
>
> Of course, sometimes you will works that fall in the cracks between
> genres and more adventuresome listeners will care about that. If there
> are enough of them, though, they'll invent a new genre name and you can
> start getting reviews of "Country Electronica" or whatever.
>
> My point is that you are complaining about it being impossible to do
> something we already routinely do with software, movies, books, and lots
> of other products. So obviously, it CAN be done.
>
> It may be true that we need better implementations (e.g. we don't have
> Amazon's source code), but I don't think there's a fundamental obstacle
> here.

Here is the netflix contest I referred to eariler:

http://www.netflixprize.com/

Not the article / post I spoke of, but the contest / prize it was about.

A million dollar prize awaits...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=netflix+recommendation+contest&btnG=Google+Search

Tried searching for that post but could not find it. I may have bookmarked it 
or emailed it to myself. I will see if I can find it and send it on later if 
I do.
>
> Cheers,
> Terry

all the best,

drew



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