Aggregation
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By receiving contributions from a wide array of tastemakers and human filters, PepperAlley will be able to aggregate the content in multiple ways that target and deliver to many different niches and communities.
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Multiple niches and communities
Portal/Directory
Contains all the tastemaker channels, radio stations, programs, podcasts, and community sites. Many different ways to filter and aggregate within the site as well as slice into niche sites as below.
Location/Regional
An Alt-Weekly meets NPR style site for each region. This is the main presentation style for PepperAlley.
Aggregation
- Region
- Los Angeles (losangeles.pepperalley.com)
- Seattle (seattle.pepperalley.com)
- San Francisco (sanfrancisco.pepperalley.com)
- New York (newyork.pepperalley.com)
- Boston (boston.pepperalley.com)
- Austin (austin.pepperalley.com)
- Vancouver (vancouver.pepperalley.com)
- Tastemaker Channels – While each tastemaker channel may not fall nicely into a specific genre, tags could be used to provide searches.
- Genre – Artists within that community could then be broken down by genre.
Genre specific
Assuming that there are enough communities represented, separate Genre specific sites/stores could be created.
Aggregation
- Genre
- Jazz (jazz.pepperalley.com)
- Classical (classical.pepperalley.com)
- Singer/Songwriter (singersongwriter.pepperalley.com)
- Metal/Punk (metalpunk.pepperalley.com)
- Alternative/Rock (altrock.pepperalley.com)
- Location – Each genre could then be broken down by location.
- Tastemaker Channels – An aggregate of all the tastemakers/filters for that particular genre.
Other
- Radio (radio.pepperalley.com) - all radio stations/channels/programs across the network
- Learning (learning.pepperalley.com) - educational material, courseworks, production and submission guidelines
Examples and inspiration
- Project Opus - A Drupal based music community connecting fans and artists at a local level. Fans and artists can blog, upload photos, announce events, rss/mailing lists, form groups, create and share playlists.
- Last.fm - Anybody who signs up essentially has their own channel. Last.fm tracks your musical taste, finds similar users, and provides musical recommendations and free personalized radio.
- Odeo - Podcast network; can browse via tags; podcasters have their own channel
- Top 10 Sources - Editors pick a topic and then find ten weblogs they feel are good resources on that topic to comprise their "Top Ten List". These editors then make a page for that topic (Jazz for example), which aggregates the editor's Top 10 blogs into one page of information. Each page is essentially an aggregator that pulls down the latest content from those chosen blogs, and republishes that content on the Top Ten Sources site.
- John Palfrey: RSS and Copyright - very informative post on some of the legal/moral issues regarding the aggregation of RSS as well as a potential processes that we could use.
- TechCrunch: Top 10 Sources
- Share Your OPML - Gathers a community of subscription lists, in OPML format, and aggregate them in interesting ways.
- Placeblogger - a hyperlocal blog directory; discover, browse, and subscribe to over 700 local blogs
- NowPublic - NowPublic combines the power of news readers, bloggers, photographers, and writers to create fast, open-source news coverage of the most important stories emerging anywhere in the world.
- Newsvine - user-generated content merged with regular news items. revenue sharing will be in the mix.
More info
- The Long Tail: Filters 101
- The Long Tail: How finely can you slice aggregation?
- Jeff Jarvis: Not Quite, Times - ...filtering, perspective, a trusted voice...that brings tremendous value.
- Fred Wilson: The four rules of The Future of Media - Microchunk it, Free it, Syndicate it, Monetize it
