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Posted by Hydra on Jul-22-2006 22:33:

EDM - new digg like website

I always found it hard to keep up with the latest news in EDM-land. Checking several websites every day is very time consuming. Today I have set up a website "EDM" that I hope will make things easier. It is basically a digg-like user controlled news hub for everything covering Electronic Dance Music. Everybody is able to register and submit links to news/stories/articles/columns/... about Trance, Techno, Progressive, House, etc...

The idea is to have a central and lightweight portal to which everybody and hopefully even producers / dj's will submit LINKS to their content and users are able to promote them. That said, this is NOT a competition to all the existing and great sites. It doesn't produce content but links to it in a very comfortable way, all who know digg should know how it works, everybody else please read the entry on Wikipedia right here.

Given that after some time when it hopefully has a solid userbase with lots of contributors it should be a pretty good place to keep track of the complete EDM scene, with new links submitted to the site very quickly. I encourage everyone to post and link to their content, add comments or write in the forums.

Currently the appearance isn't very nice yet but I'm going to work on that during the next few days. The Google banner on the top is implemented by the host (crispynews) and I do not make money with it. By default the host displays an additional Google banner on the left which will make me some money according to the host. However, I deleted that banner because making money with this website is not my goal.

Please share your opinion about this website and ways to improve it. If you want, you can also help me.

http://edm.crispynews.com/

Admins, if this is considered spam, feel free to delete this thread.

Posted by Omega_M on Jul-23-2006 21:50:

Re: EDM - new digg like website

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Originally posted by Hydra

*Everybody is able to register and submit links to news/stories/articles/columns/... about Trance, Techno, Progressive, House, etc...

*The idea is to have a central and lightweight portal to which everybody and hopefully even producers / dj's will submit LINKS to their content and users are able to promote them.

*Given that after some time when it hopefully has a solid userbase with lots of contributors it should be a pretty good place to keep track of the complete EDM scene, with new links submitted to the site very quickly. I encourage everyone to post and link to their content, add comments or write in the forums.

Did you ever check out this website ? Its got a head start of 6 years over you

quote:

I always found it hard to keep up with the latest news in EDM-land.

Holy Crap. you gota have some nerve to post this comment on TA

Posted by Azz3D on Jul-23-2006 22:37:

Re: Re: EDM - new digg like website

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Originally posted by Omega_M
Did you ever check out this website ? Its got a head start of 6 years over you

if TA didn't have forums it would get no traffic

but then again, this can be considered spam so

Posted by Hydra on Jul-24-2006 05:51:

Omega_M, I checked out the website you mentionned, and didn't find much news on the frontpage.

There are a ton of sites about EDM which have information that is not on TA. Not on the frontpage, not in the forums.

I don't think you understand the concept.

Posted by naeblis on Jul-24-2006 06:19:

Omega... you have to be joking?

It takes a ton of time to be 'up-to-date' on the edm scene, unless you visit the forums constantly all the time, listen, and keep up to date. For those that don't have a ton of times on their hand it would be a great idea.

There are already a lot of site that cover the edm scene (i.e. ivibes, trance.nu etc...), and it wouldn't be such a bad idea, to put it all in one place, and link it all up.

What would be great, is if swamper might let this be put on the main page. Letting all users contribute, to give news as it comes.

I think it's an idea worth developing.

Posted by DRM on Jul-24-2006 09:18:

quote:
Originally posted by djnaeblis
Omega... you have to be joking?

It takes a ton of time to be 'up-to-date' on the edm scene, unless you visit the forums constantly all the time, listen, and keep up to date. For those that don't have a ton of times on their hand it would be a great idea.

There are already a lot of site that cover the edm scene (i.e. ivibes, trance.nu etc...), and it wouldn't be such a bad idea, to put it all in one place, and link it all up.

What would be great, is if swamper might let this be put on the main page. Letting all users contribute, to give news as it comes.

I think it's an idea worth developing.

Agreed, this is actually a very good idea if it can get enough members submitting information

Posted by Hydra on Jul-24-2006 10:03:

Thanks for the feedback guys. I'm happy to get such responses . If you find an article that's interesting somewhere, just post it! You don't even have to register, and the articles that I posted myself usually took me about 1 minute to make.

You can post anything EDM related. Even advertise a party you're organizing. Anything! Because if people don't find your article interesting, they won't click on the 'PROMOTE' button and the article will disappear quickly from the front page.

Posted by Omega_M on Jul-24-2006 13:40:

quote:
Originally posted by djnaeblis
Omega... you have to be joking?

There are already a lot of site that cover the edm scene (i.e. ivibes, trance.nu etc...), and it wouldn't be such a bad idea, to put it all in one place, and link it all up.

quote:
Originally posted by djnaeblis
*Everybody is able to register and submit links to news/stories/articles/columns/... about Trance, Techno, Progressive, House, etc...

*The idea is to have a central and lightweight portal to which everybody and hopefully even producers / dj's will submit LINKS to their content and users are able to promote them.

*Given that after some time when it hopefully has a solid userbase with lots of contributors it should be a pretty good place to keep track of the complete EDM scene, with new links submitted to the site very quickly. I encourage everyone to post and link to their content, add comments or write in the forums.

Surely, TA already does the second and third bulleted part. YOu are mainly talking about the first bullet that I take back

On the other hand, yeah TA doesn't really deal with the *whole* EDM scene. SO if Hydra want's to make a portal, it has to be a 'proper superset' of TA! That's like TA being a small part of the whole !! That would make for a huge portal . Sorta like a decent business venture !

Posted by rustyryan on Jul-24-2006 16:45:

seems decent...

you just need content/people... which is no small feat

Posted by [B-O-F-H] on Jul-24-2006 18:13:

You have to be very careful where you source some information from though, as originating sources might get a bit pissy if theres any plagarism going on.

Posted by Grrrrr on Jul-24-2006 19:13:

I just checked the site out and i think it's a great idea

Posted by IcyLogik on Jul-24-2006 21:58:

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Originally posted by Grrrrr
I just checked the site out and i think it's a great idea

I agree. It could be great, with real and useful news. There wouldnt be any awsome threads like 'which dj would you like to have sex with' because they would all get pushed to the bottom while good posts get bumped. Yeah a lot of the posts wouldnt be brand new or original, but basically all digg articles point to some guys blog or some article that was made on another site days earlier.