I don’t really have anything to blog about lately.  The only super cool thing that’s happened is that my blog port about college piracy was posted on the Artists House Music blog.  Those guys are very nice.  I met them on Twitter, of all places.  I didn’t think you could meet people on Twitter.  It seems pretty extreme, as in, either you’re very insular and don’t add anyone ever, or you’re constantly adding people all of the time.  I can’t even imagine what the middleman is.  And how do you find people to add?  Do you just pore through other people’s Twitter friends?  I guess websites help.  It’s all very foreign to me.

My post on AHM didn’t really augment the visits to my own site, which is fine, but it adds to  my theory that people generally don’t check links back to something.  I could be wrong.  I’m not expecting Slashdot levels of hits, of course, but it’s always interesting to see how many people become interested in this site through other sites.  So if you found this site because of the Artists House Blog or some site relating to the article I wrote: hello and welcome.  I hope you enjoy yourself.

I was thinking about whether or not I should write a second part to that article, a “how to” piece about what would be needed to successfully create a music service superprogram for college and universities, but then I remembered that I don’t know anything about computer programming.  I’m just the idea man.  Still, it would be fairly simple.  You’d just need the students to login with their student ID number or e-mail address, thereby confirming that they are who they claim to be.

The College Music Network, as I’ve been calling it in my head (or CoMN for short, pronouned “Common”), could possibly be a humongous multiversal social networking site if launched correctly.  Think of all the fun things you could do with it.  First there would be “hubs” for specific colleged.  Boise State, for example, would have its own homepage and specialized music centers (and would, in my world, have info on new and established bands from Idaho, major or indie label).  Then you could have statistics from all the universities regarding what’s popular.  This would be available for all students to look at, but would obviously benefit music labels as well, since they would have concrete evidence of what is popular in what section of the country, to the most egocentric and money-spending demographic in the country.

This is essentially a thing that Facebook could’ve easily integrated into their social networking site back when it was a college-only site.  I applaud them for taking it in an obvious direction and making it into a global networking site, but now, because of Facebook, we have a solid architecture that we can study and build upon for our own goal of creating a secure music sharing website/program.

I’m still wrapping my head around the logistics of the entire thing, but I think it’s more than possible.  If anything, it’s probable.  And if anything more, some smart programmer somewhere out there has read this or already come up with a similar idea, and will make it happen and I will receive no acknowledgement whatsoever.  It’s okay, I can deal with it!

I guess you have to patent intellectual property, don’t you?  Or copyright it?  Stupid law stuff.