Here I am blogging at 6:30AM. Doin AOK. Rough night sleeping, but that’s to be expected. I had a few unexpected nic fits last night, but I kept from the basement, continued to read Red Storm Rising, and did some web surfing. Our basement is finished and early on we designated it our play room. Our real living room is down there. No smoking up stairs. Which is paying off right now.
I’ve e-mailed Anthony at Origivation magazine to see if there is any way I can help. Two ways of getting more revenue. Bring more money in or spend less money. I can probably help in the web tech area somehow. After all, if he’s spending even just his time updating the site – it’s time wasted.
Wouldn’t a weblog where bands entered their own info and he just editted it be a bit more efficient? Or he picked an editor volunteer he trusted?
Also, the band listings and message boards detract and compete with those over at PhillyMusic. I’ve spoken to Tim who runs PhillyMusic in the past. He’s a great dude. I wonder if I can get these two together? I wonder if he knows about the situation at Origivation? I mean – there is nothing at PhillyMusic that would make you think so. I’m gonna e-mail Tim today.
And *then* there is Groovelingo. Another great Philly music site. Actually an online radio station via MP3.com! There is linkage between PhillyMusic and GrooveLingo, but maye there could be a whole lot more.
After all … Philly is a small town. It’s not as big as people think. The three of them actually pull users from each other, and cut down the time spent at any one site. With their collective talents, I know the results would be kick ass.
Part of the separation between the sites is that each is sort of a pet project of their respective founders, and each has slightly different areas of focus under the umbrella of “the local music scene”.
PhillyMusic.com is sort of the granddaddy of them all, but in my experience doesn’t see frequent updates. The message board is mostly filled with advertisements posted into the void — there’s not much of a community there. GrooveLingo caters to more of the “indie” crowd (deliberately lo-fi and/or difficult to approach). Origivation from the start has really stressed the idea of bringing bands together, and unlike the others deliberately set out to support those playing original music and competing with the cover bands that are the mainstays of many bars and nightclubs in the area.
So it seems like there’s overlap, but only functionally — they actually serve very different audiences. I don’t know whether it would serve any purpose to try to unite any of them.
Oh, and Origivation has an Internet radio station like GrooveLingo — the address is http://mp3.com/stations/origivation
Well ya got a great point there too. And it’s that point specifically – that there audiences are different, but their scope – Philly – is the same, which makes me think they can somehow help one another.
I don’t know.