In case you’re all wondering why I’m bloggin setlists, its to seed the population of this site.
[From R.E.M. Tour, 2008]
This site is an aggregator of user generated content from REM’s current tour. Its a logical extension of remdublin.com, a site that was cooked up over Indian food in Vancouver in May of last year. This time its more automated, less invasive (no registration needed!) and more simple.
Each show has a tag, and it aggregates content from Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and Technorati as well as from direct SMS’s in using MsgMe.com
The purpose of course is to extend a concert beyond just a concert. To extend the collective experience of being at a show to more than just being at a show. Its about equal parts documentation and recollection.
The site was built on the same Platform (Drupal) as all our sites, from Mission Metallica to AshleyMusic.com
The nice thing about Drupal is that it allows the flexibility of us to do sites like this, then repurpose the same method to other sites like this. Now that we did one, I can see us doing this for every tour moving forward, adding live music sales to it, etc.
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