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jam is an active type of post used to share a song that you are recently enjoying. Inspired by the site This Is My Jam.

Contents 1 Why 2 How to 2.1 How to markup 2.2 How to determine 3 IndieWeb Examples 3.1 Colin Tedford 3.2 Gregor Morrill 3.3 Tantek 3.4 David Shanske 3.5 Kyle Mahan 3.6 David Peach 3.7 Emma Kuo 3.8 Ryan Rix 3.9 Jeremy Keith 4 Silo Examples 4.1 This Is My Jam 5 Brainstorming 5.1 Podcast Jams 5.2 Jam type indicator 5.3 Markup and content 6 FAQ 6.1 Why ♫ 7 Posts about 8 See Also

Why

You should post a jam if you want to share a song that is particularly meaningful to you now.

How to

How to markup

There is no standard or convention for how to markup a jam post. See below IndieWeb Examples for various approaches, make up your own similarly, and add yourself to the list.

There's a brainstorming proposal to use:

Content of post starts with:

• ♫
• white space
• link/embed of music video/audio

How to determine

There is no standard or convention for how to determine if a post is a jam post. However, based on the brainstorming proposal:

If content starts with "♫" and next thing (after ignoring whitespace) is a link to (or embedding e.g. iframe of) a music video/audio, then it's a jam post.

IndieWeb Examples

In order of first use of post type.

Colin Tedford

Colin Tedford publishes jams (without calling them that) on colintedford.com since 2014-06-20 (started using "♫ " 2014-10-10 and later backfilled):

• http://colintedford.com/2014/06/20.1429-friday-music-getaway/
  • has "♫ " but then track name and artist, followed by youtube link
• http://colintedford.com/2014/09/05.1202-friday-dnb/
  • has "♫ " and then Soundcloud link to audio
• more can be found here: http://colintedford.com/tag/music/

Content in general follows the pattern of:

• start with "♫ " then a SoundCloud or YouTube link (could be any video or audio link)

Gregor Morrill

gRegor Morrill published a jam on gregorlove.com:

• http://gregorlove.com/2014/07/theres-no-such-thing-as/
  • POSSE copy on thisismyjam: https://www.thisismyjam.com/song/professor-elemental/all-in-together?with=8l0stbb

Tantek

Tantek Çelik publishes jams on tantek.com since 2015-047:

• http://tantek.com/2015/047/t7/mornings-look-for-me-trackish-tuesday
• and syndicated to thisismyjam
  • syndication link to http://www.thisismyjam.com/t/_9nrd6ge/
  • redirects to: https://www.thisismyjam.com/song/moby/one-of-these-mornings?with=9nrd6ge
  • text content contains only part of what was in the original (just lyric quote, and also quoted in copy), followed by see original text:

    Originally posted at: http://ttk.me/t4_h7

• http://tantek.com/2015/231/t1/depend-snowflake-apis-born-slippy
  • syndication link to https://www.thisismyjam.com/t/_aewv6py

Recent example: (post This Is My Jam)

• http://tantek.com/2016/011/t1/david-bowie-creating-inspiring-wonderful-weird
  • POSSE tweet: https://twitter.com/t/status/686479136135626752

Markup:

• note that
• starts with "♫ "
• then a YouTube or Vimeo link (could be any video link perhaps) and embed to a music video.
• u-syndication link to POSSE copy on Twitter (used to have link to copy on This Is My Jam also).

David Shanske

• Published a proto-jam on 2014-12-23 at Many and the Few as a like.

Kyle Mahan

• published a jam 2015-09-15, retroactively added "♫ " 2015-09-23 https://kylewm.com/2015/09/nostalgia-attack-very-specifically-remember-hearing

David Peach

• Published first jam on 2015-11-04. http://davidpea.ch/jams/1722
• Imported past jams from this is my jam into own website

Emma Kuo

• Published jams since 2015-06-07.
• Artist and title included in text.
• Does not use "♫".
• Retroactively added the "jam" tag to posts.

Ryan Rix

Ryan Rix (rrix) publishes Jams through Arcology since 2016-04-16 by tagging Last.fm scrape data that he wants to publish with 'JAM', and publishing the site.

- Artist and title included in text. - Does not use "♫". - Links to Youtube search for the artist and title since that probably works best worldwide.

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith posts jams using ACME notes since at least 2016-06-25, e.g.

• https://adactio.com/notes/10874 (also a multijam)

Silo Examples

This Is My Jam

This Is My Jam of course, which inspired the post type.

Note that when it syndicates a This Is My Jam "jam" to Twitter (only if you ask / set it up to, opt-in), by default (can opt out) it includes a ♫ musical note emoji just before the permashortlink to the Jam. E.g.

• https://twitter.com/t_silos/status/633910221056933889

Brainstorming

For now, just publish your jam as a note that starts with a link to the (music) video or audio that you are jamming.

Podcast Jams

Possible improvement: markup the media file itself in your post as a download to make it part of your podcast - which could also allow for a distributed version of the "Listen to your friends" feature on This Is My Jam.

Jam type indicator

Simple/dumb proposal for indicating that a post is a "jam" post:

• start text content of post with ♫ (musical note emoji) - inspired by This Is My Jam syndication behavior.
  • it could also be used for a listen post - though those would likely have the more passive "listened to..." prefix text.

Trying this:

• Tantek Çelik - see example permalinks above. selfdogfood

Markup and content

Consider marking up your jams as:

• a simple note h-entry

Then follow this content pattern, start content with:

• ♫
• white space
• link/embed of music video/audio

Trying this:

• Tantek Çelik - see example permalinks above. selfdogfood

FAQ

Why ♫

Q: Why is the "♫" symbol used instead of: 🎵🎶♩♬♪♫ 𝄞𝄢𝄡 ?

A: Because This Is My Jam already set a design precedent with their cross-postings to Twitter which use "♫"[1]

Posts about

• 2015-08-19: https://twitter.com/revoltpuppy/status/634050101221068800

  In light of This Is My Jam becoming archived, IndieWeb is beginning to fill the gap: http://indiewebcamp.com/jam

See Also

• thisismyjam
• scrobble
• play list
• posts
• rejam
• ♫ "Jam On It" by Newcleus