Electric Sheep- Rumblog

Stats

The model counts as of Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:48:07 GMT.

[ User, Feedback, Song, Genre ].each do |model|
  puts "#{model.to_s}: #{model.send(:count)}"
end

Cripes, it works. It actually works. People are using how we hoped... ha hah! :D

1. User: This song makes me feel like smashing my head into pretty colors.
2. User: This song makes me feel like rocking out with a beer and some good friends
3. User: This song makes me feel sitting on a green knoll on the edge of the sea, staring at the blue sky and watching the clouds go by, all the while hugging my loved one tight
4. User: This song makes me feel like a FUNKY BITCH. now what i'm sayin? amirite?
5. User: This song makes me feel very funky: like I have a lot of energy to do something between line-dancing and karate.
6. User: This song makes me feel sad and whimsical and quiet.
7. User: This song makes me feel like I'm not sure if I want to be relaxed or very, very focussed: this would be excellent music to work to but probably that would be the only time I'd listen to it
8. User: This song makes me feel sad
9. User: This song makes me feel soft and cuddly.
10. Will: All the above are real feedback to artists from the site...

∞ Woah.

Privacy, and Terms of Engagement

Here’s the deal yo.

Don’t be an arsehole.

That is all.

And for a slightly longer version:

Privacy:

• We won’t give away your email, or your songs or any of that stuff to anyone.
• You keep all your copyrights to everything.
• We might send you an email. We probably won’t though.

Terms of Use:

• Don’t upload anything you don’t own the rights to
• Don’t spam
• If it breaks, it’s not our fault
• Nothing that happens on this site, including but not limited to exploding houses, liver failure and anything else bad in any way is our fault. Use the site at your own risk.

^_^

(You know, probably just look at T61’s privacy and terms and just pretend they’re ours, eh?)

About How I Really Feel

How I Really Feel is an app born from the belief that the internet is a playground, within which one of our greatest adventures is finding ways to filter signal from the noise.

There is already a huge plethora of social networking and promotional sites for art, music and expression. Some of them are brilliantly useful. I’ve found artists I’ve worked with for years via Deviant Art, hooked up shows with Facebook and I’m totally obsessed with thesixtyone.com.

That bit has been figured out. Hype Machine and last.fm and all that crowd focus (beautifully) on up-to-the-minute fashion and user taste respectively, Pandora goes by a totally cool and novel set of parameters.

Our slightly different variation on an old tune will hopefully offer another novel method of interaction and discovery.

How does it work?

1. Artists upload songs, noting genre and completeness (i.e. radio ready, demo, etc).
2. Tracks are assigned random numbers and appear in listeners’ playlists, relative to their taste.
3. After listening for a bit, people can let the artist know how they feel about the track. They can do this anonymously, or not.
4. If the artist allows it, the listener can then download the mp3, and/or see the band name + link.
5. As people listen and critique, artists can see how people felt about their tracks, with a few soft metrics like how long they listen for.

I would like to believe that post-rumble, this same format can be expanded upon to any uploadable artform. The point here is not so much the music as it is the method of interaction.

Thank you, very kindly, for taking the time to check this out. :)

- Will

Let us know how you feel:

• Say hello on irc at irc.freenode.net #rumblesheep
• tweet @willdayble

Electric Sheep RR planning begins

I have a very strong coffee, a pad and paper. Planning for the Rails Rumble begins as soon as I’ve finished this coffee.

Team members for ‘Electric Sheep’ are as last year:

• Oshuma
• Yuffster
• Jalnyfen
• Willdayble

Freakin hyped.

- Will

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