Tag: publishing

Music sharing/distribution

Just been having a look at soundcloud – a way of uploading and distributing music. Established by a couple of musicians/engineers in Germany in 2007, it has begun to eclipse MySpace as the place musicians publish their music. It’s helped by the integration of its API in various Apps for the Iphone and Android making it much easier to capture and upload music to your account. Various widgets also help the marketing of songs each of which are given their own page and can be embedded pretty much anywhere. Here’s an example of an embed from the site.

http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F11174639&show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=f77604
Why Me? by MiladMaleki A.K.A MilamDo

World’s First Crowdsourced Book

Project YRUHRN was started with one idea in September of 2006. It all started with a HIT posted on Amazon’s mTurk offering a penny for your answer to ‘Why are You Here – Right Now?’. From that HIT, over 500 answers were given in a weeks time.

We have taken those answers, and compiled them in a book that will speak to a part of everyone.

We will see if it is possible, through crowdsourcing and the power of work-at-home people, if a book can be written and published in just 30 days from idea to publishing.

Along with the paperback book, we are working on a e-book. If you would like a free copy of a rough draft e-book to get a better idea of what we are doing, see the ‘Contact Us’ tab.

We will also be donating 1/3 of all profits from the project to the children affected by Katrina. More information and details to come soon.

The Ishidos are a group of work at home mothers that have never met each other before, but through some seredipitous twist of fate, were brought together to publish this book.

via yruhrn.com