Heads up: insane project revised

[mdlbear]

Lately I've been trying (but not hard enough, seemingly) to regain my momentum on a project to build a community website where filkers could share their work. It's called PenguinSong.net, and for a long time it's been labeled as my "latest insane project". Meanwhile, I've been admiring archive networks like CPAN, and web applications like Gallery, and have pretty much decided that the new software behind PenguinSong will be something like a Gallery for songwriters, combined with some kind of peeer-to-peer network of servers: instead of a community website (which has problems), it would be a community of websites.

Yesterday I realized that licenses like the Creative Commons family of licenses, which explicitly allow non-commercial copying, make it particularly easy to build a CPAN-like archive network, because you don't have to get the author's permission to mirror a file. And some stuff I'm doing at work will help, though I can't discuss it in public just yet. So the near future looks interesting.

Comments

[mdlbear]

Interesting. Zie seems to be mostly looking at wiki and blog software, apparently with the goal of making zir blog more interactive.

It's research in a direction I've explored myself, and it's a fascinating area indeed, but it's pretty far away from what I had in mind in this post. What I'm really going to be getting at is building a community out of a whole lot of individual websites, while making it particularly easy to publish and share music.

Unfortunately, many of the newer details are still waiting for me to get permission to publish them. These things have to be done delicately, as the Wicked Witch said.