BTW, just a friendly reminder where is the best place to post Slip Setlists: http://www.phrazz.com/slipbase
Traffic-wise, I get about 500 visits each week (give or take a couple hundred) and these are folks who visit more than once. In fact, over half the visits touch three or more items per visit, and only 10% or so have only visited once. [I can give you more statistics, but it'll cost you extra.]
By posting to SlipBase you save me time, and save everyone time when it's time to look up songs or burn shows. I update this almost daily...and build song indexes, clean the data and do all sorts of things that can't be done in an email digestifier.
I can do things that haven't been done yet--just send me your ideas and I'll let you know how easy they are and often just do 'em. I also make changes that are wrong, so if you know a show has such-and-such song, insist upon this and if you're even surer, send me a copy of the show and I'll bring it up to the BAM song Title Advisory Committee (BAMTAC, which is party of NORAD ;-}). [This is not the Totally Independent Coalition for Teasers And Covers, aka "TICTAC", nor TICTACTOE...go figure that one out sometime yourself....]
Incidentally, do you know what state has had the most Slip shows?
Ok, most of you guessed that one. But do you know the top 10? Well, here's all of them, sorted by frequency. It is apparent that CA may overtake MA shows some day!
This isn't 100% accurate, of course (neither is SlipBase):
MA 92 CA 63 NY 59 RI 44 PA 37 CO 28 OR 24 VT 17 OH 16 IL 14 NC 11 WA 10 CT 9 MD 9 GA 8 LA 8 MO 8 (CAN) 7 NH 7 TX 7 VA 7 AZ 6 ME 6 MI 6 WI 6 Japan 4 ?? 3 KS 3 MN 3 MT 3 WV 3 ??? 2 IN 2 NM 2 Scotia 2 TN 2 - 1 216 1 ? 1 ?,? 1 AR 1 BC 1 CAN 1 Canada 1 College 1 DC 1 FL 1 Ga 1 IA 1 ID 1 KY 1 Lodge 1 MS 1 NH. 1 NJ 1 NS 1 Ohio 1 Oregon 1 RI. 1 UT 1 University 1 University) 1 Vineyard 1
For all you UNIX hackers who want to try this at home:
grep ^[0-9] setlists.txt | awk '{print $NF}' | countwords
(Now isn't that easy to fathom? Just like English, only worse. )
I'm working on the auto-indexing of songs in SlipBase, but this is a lot harder than one would think. First of all the songs aren't set in stone, second of all they all have strange ASCII characters (punctuation wreaks havoc with code of all types), and third of all there's plenty of holes to patch in the main data (which changes pretty much on a daily basis).
Next year I plan on providing logins so people who care can fix some of these with their own accounts, and also upload photos and lots of other fun stuff we can do with a larger site. In the meantime, please help me to help you by updating SlipBase early and often. Like voting, it's a collaboration that builds upon itself, and through participation it becomes greater than the sum of its parts. Every contributor is a big help--and major contributors will get shows in return (just tell me what you're looking for or I'll send something you don't have yet).
That's enough wheedling for the time being. I know many of you (on the email digestifier) already post to SlipBase (and I thank you profusely), but there are still some who haven't been there yet. Also feel free to email me for my photo link(s) (I don't post these for bandwidth/webcrawler reasons). In addition, if you have photo, lyric, or other Slip-related links, feel free to post these to SlipBase and I'll make sure they make it into the indelible link ink which is now part of the ever growing SlipBase Universal Blog Verification Enterprise Revolution Technique (SUBVERT) ;-} .
-Taking care of your Jumby,
Phrazz
http://www.phrazz.com/slipbase http://www.pbase.com/phrazz
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