Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. Even so, here’s a cool idea I had today.
First, art is selection. You have to stand back, because I can define art seven different ways in seven seconds. But one thing that art is is the selection of seemingly disparate elements into a pleasing whole. In this way, disc-jockeying can be seen as an art form.
Second, social networking can be viewed as communication by shared creation — collaboration.
So: Imagine an iPod-like device that allowed you to broadcast your music over, say, a 25 yard radius. You are now a DJ for anyone who wants to tune into your hyper-hyper-local radio show.
As an elaboration, imagine the each one of these iPod-like devices could work as either a sender or a receiver of hyper-hyper-local radio shows.
As a further elaboration, imagine that self-selected groups of people could create temporary networks of these iPod-like devices. In the receiving mode, each would retransmit music sent by the device in the transmitting mode, slightly expanding the transmission radius. The user of the transmitting device could elect to continue transmitting or could pass the baton of transmission along to another device in the network.
In this way, a group of people could DJ for each other, each sharing the best of their music collections with the others, each taking a turn as the creator of the collaborative artwork.
Picture a group of early-morning joggers or bike-riders. How about semi-sorta-suburban-strangers on a commuter train? Stuck at the airport? You can recruit volunteers to share in the misery.
iRadio? iBroadcast? iAmADJ? I think this could be a lot of fun.
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Ron says:
Seems like the new wifi ipods launched recently would make this pretty easy to do. It is a nifty idea, for sure.
September 15, 2007 — 8:43 pm
John Kalinowski says:
I have an iHeadache! I miss the guys with refrigerator-size boomboxes on their shoulder. They really knew how to broadcast their music over a 25 yard radius!
September 16, 2007 — 1:51 am
Thomas Johnson says:
Greg- Aren’t you sort of describing a non DRM Zune? Sort of? Kinda?
September 16, 2007 — 10:14 pm
Todd says:
You are describing Yahoo’s “Web Jay” which was closed down in June bacuse no one was using it:
“…Webjay is a tool that helps you listen to and publish web playlists.
MP3 players like WinAmp, iTunes, RealOne, and Windows Media Player can be given a list of songs to play. Most of the time the songs are on your computer, but they can also be on the web. Webjay is all about playlists of songs on the web.
Playlists that link to web-based files are portable — anyone with an MP3 player and an internet connection can create and swap playlists without having to transfer the actual songs themselves. This means you can email your small playlist file (actually just a specially formatted text file) to your friend, post it on your web site, or take it with you to work.”
http://webjay.org/
September 18, 2007 — 8:22 am