Well, we finally have RSS! What this means is that from today, if you've filled in the 'social media' section of your profile information, then your external blog posts and podcasts (and, on your profile page, your Twitter status) will syndicate directly to MusBook.com. All you have to do to make this happen is... NOTHING!

That's right... once you've copied your blog feed into your account then it's all automatic; without having to lift a finger, your work - be it music or words - will be injected straight into the growing MusBook.com community. It's terrifically exciting, because once we have thousands of musicians and music organizations from around the world signed up to the site, there'll be a constant self-renewing stream of exciting new music and musical material for you to enjoy. It's going to be amazing.

For musicians and arts organizations, this will be an unparalleled opportunity to connect your content directly with the global music community. And for music lovers, well... the best-ever direct access to musical work from everywhere, regardless of where you are! The world became a global village some time ago... it's finally time for the world of music to catch up ;)

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Pictures

Although we don't yet have pictures coming in from external RSS feeds, you'll now see pictures from anything posted directly on the site, such as job listings, blog posts, and products. We'll also be introducing a lot more colour to the site soon, with many more icons on the front page feed so that you can see at a glance who is posting what. It'll be more interesting to look at too.

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Filtering

Well the big question now is what will happen when thousands of blogs and podcasts are syndicating to the site every day...  the reality is that the information is never going to stop, so to prevent us all from getting overwhelmed, we're going to have to start working on sophisticated filter systems that get you the information you are interested in, and filter out the things you're not interested in. An even bigger challenge: we have to manage to do this whilst at the same time maintaining a pure user-driven meritocracy that protects traditions and eschews fads, with none of the over-hierarchical problems of the old music industry.

We won't get it right first time (in fact it's likely we'll fail dismally the first time, but that's OK!), but with your help, we'll do our best. Ideas always very welcome,. ideally on this blog, or in confidence to support @ musbook.com. We really do react very fast to brilliant suggestions. If there's something we should be doing and you can see it and we can't, pleeeeeeeeeease tell us!

Thanks for listening! and enjoy the new tsunami of music coming your way :)

Yours,

- The MusBook Team