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</div>is this a popularity contest?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>No, not at all.<br><br>I was just getting the impression that online compilation was a sub-set of all such tweets.<br><br>I suppose I was mainly talking about myself; I always find it hard to judge my own work so I tend to trust on what others think is nice.<br>
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this is a great idea, and since i&#39;m not actually doing anything to<br>
make it happen [other than this note], i don&#39;t get much say. but<br>
what&#39;s wrong with just opening the door for people to contribute<br>
[regardless of a curator&#39;s opinion]? if someone wants to pull a sub<br>
grouping of submissions that appeal to one group or another- who<br>
cares? but i&#39;d like to suggest that the door is open to all<br>
contributors, say within a certain time frame.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>You are right. This is my fault for not writing clear enough.<br><br>I anticipated that some people would send in -say- 10 variations on a theme. This happened with the 80 character game (with great results!). If we are presenting this to the outside world with a flash player like in the link I&#39;d say it would make sense to pick the 1 or 2 best ones out of a set like that. That process would be a bit like a popularity contest and in that case I see no harm in this.<br>
<br>I&#39;m absolutely not advocating excluding anyone, I&#39;d just prefer -say- 25 tracks by 20 artists over 60 tracks by 20 artists with some people over-represented. IMHO everyone who send in a piece should have a spot. I also think that if you make 50 pieces in a especially inspired night you should definitely share all of those but I&#39;m not so sure it&#39;d be a good idea to feature all 50 in a compilation of various artists.<br>
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i have worked on the microsound list with the projects there, and the<br>
&#39;open door&#39; policy has been pretty successful. [better karma too ...]<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>Absolutely. Sorry about representing my thoughts so unclearly; I hope we are on the same page now?<br></div></div><br>Yours,<br>Kas.<br>