thesixtyone.com - Torley Arrived and In-world Notecard Invite
I thought I would get around to sharing the content of the in-world notecard that I have been sharing with people as an invite to thesixtyone.com.
I have to admit to feeling a little miffed, if even mostly on the "as a joke" side.
The Infamous Digg Entry
The below notecard was created on 2008-01-05 14:16:10. I've edited it a few times since then to correct some links and add a bit of extra detail. The Digg article where I found and fell in love with thesixtyone was posted on about 2007-12-11 (Digg - Thesixtyone: Music discovery game connects indies and fans). I started recruiting people in IM almost immediately and things started gaining steam over that three week or so period before I created the below notecard and eventually the SL group.In that time I sent the invite to most everyone on my friends list and just about everyone I came across at the many live shows I frequent in-world. I dropped the notecard on Vint Falken several times with gentle nudges in IM to read it and please consider joining us on the site. Claudia Mantis, a lovely friend of mine whom I invited early on from my FL, finally got Vint on there by kicking her in the hiney and basically ordering her to sign up. WOOT - great move Claudia. Except... ummm... Vint seemed to completely forget I had ever even asked.
Torley SHOULD Be On There!
I also dropped the notecard on Torley Linden which I thought was kinda brazen at the time knowing Torley's schedule. I followed it up with an email because that is Torley's preferred method of "drop me an email and I'll file it and get around to it as I can" operation. Just for the hell of it, and I can't imagine Torley having a fit over posting two of his sentences that came through email:"On Jan 5, 2008 10:37 PM, Dolmere Talamasca [you know at that gmail address thing] wrote:
Torley! I think you should post your music to thesixtyone.com. I'm
trying to get SL artists to post content there and realized that you
have a collection of material that should be posted there, for sure!
Please give it a shot - sign up an artist account and post your
strongest material :)
http://www.thesixtyone.com/?referred_by_username=dolmerelistens and
click on the green free account button to the right to sign up.
Let me know if you post songs so I can "bump" them from my account.
Be well - keep up the good work."
"On Jan 7th - email subject Re: thesixtyone.com - Recommended from Dolmere Talamasca, Torley Linden wrote:
Dol! Thanks for thinking of me. :) I haven't done much uploading of my music recently, but will check it out. Much appreciated, and hope you're well too!"
I followed THAT up with a comment on Torley's blog. See the comment "61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 reminder 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61 61" from Feb 1st here: My piano version of Avril Lavigne's "Things I'll Never Say" | Torley Lives. To which Torley replied in a comment "@Dolmere: The numbers! What do they mean?"
On a later blog entry of Torley's mentioning yet more of his music (More lovely piano music… solo piano 3! | Torley Lives) I replied. Feb 6th from Dolmere: "Torley - reminding you that I'd still love to see you posting some of your art to thesixtyone.com (61 61 61 reminder 61 61 61 - that's what the numbers are :) See my earlier email invite for a link." Torley replies: "@Dol: Ohhhh! *checks out the site*"
Torley Arrives! I Rejoice! (mostly)
So I'm peeking at Torley's comment wall on 61 and I see him say "@VintFalken: Thanks, and everyone should know I originally heard about this site from you! You're officially my referrer now." This is in reference to Vint's blog post about thesixtyone.com on March 18th. Right. Everyone should know that. I'm glad that detail's been cleared up *giggles softly while curling up into the corner*So, like I recently said, I really should have this fucking laryngitis checked out, don't you think?
OK, petty little whining over and done. I swear. I'm done now. Over.
I do enjoy Torley's piano music and I'm quite pleased he got around to posting a good deal of it on thesixtyone.com. Torley's tracks are typically available for free download at archive.org, which in and of itself is a beauteous thing, but it's also nice to have them officially posted with an artist account on this music discovery site.
The Notecard! At Last!
Moving on - what the heck is this "notecard invite" I keep referring to? Here is the content of the invite notecard in which I attempt to explain thesixtyone a bit and attempt to get additional live music enthusiasts enthusiastic about it."I found a website that I think will consume my copious free time like nothing since last.fm.
I think this thing rocks the house.
I'm trying to get SL performers signed up as artists - but we also need fans there. Please sign up for a free account and dig around to check the place out:
http://www.thesixtyone.com/?referred_by_username=dolmerelistens
(the referral is to get credit for the signup and get some extra points to vote for SL artists with :)
Artists can use the same URL - just click the green "free account" button and sign up as a listener or artist depending on whether you want to support SL musicians or you are one and have your own music to share.
FANS: Once you're there you can vote on songs by SLers! foxyflwr cure, Charles Coleman, Kaklick Martin, Frogg & Jay, Jaycatt, Grace Mcd, Lyndon Heart, Cylindrian Rutabaga, Spence Wilder and Melvin Took already have songs posted (OK, the list is MUCH larger now - well over 50 artists!)
To find them you can just look at my 61 profile. I have some playlists I created available at this URL:
http://www.thesixtyone.com/dolmerelistens/collection/20544/
A BIT ABOUT HOW IT WORKS
It's a music discovery site. So maybe think of it like going to CDBaby or Amazon to tinker around and find new music by listening to a song and deciding whether or not you want to give it a try and buy that CD.
Now add in the social aspect - maybe think of it like going to last.fm to see who is listening to what music in order to get an idea for what people who are interested in the same music as you have gotten for the holidays, etc.
An artist uploads a song. Users of the system listen to that song on the web page. If the user likes the song they can add it to their personal playlist and if the user has enough "points" they can "bump" the song - or basically put a positive vote in for it. Points are accrued in various ways - basically (bass-ically? :) you earn points by being a proactive member on the site.
A NOTE TO ARTISTS
I find it a little odd how they treat artists actually. Rather than have "in" and "out" points or some other artist vs. listener point system they force an account to be an artist or a listener. Why they assume an artist doesn't want to be an active listener is a bit beyond me - I think it's just a limitation of the way they chose to build the points system.
When you create an artist account you're allowed to upload three songs. Your songs can receive "bumps" or votes that become your artist bump system. The more bumps your songs receive the more points towards the ability to upload more songs you receive.
You'll have to create a separate listener account in order to participate in that way.
A list of SL artists I'm aware have 61 accounts here: http://www.lovelymachine.com/Dolmere/2008/03/thesixtyone_sl_artist_list.html
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