{"id":1881,"date":"2005-04-19T04:08:12","date_gmt":"2005-04-19T09:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/funding-the-brainz\/"},"modified":"2005-04-19T04:08:12","modified_gmt":"2005-04-19T09:08:12","slug":"funding-the-brainz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/funding-the-brainz\/","title":{"rendered":"funding the brainz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve been off-and-on with robert for i guess years now,  and tonight i got an important message&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/musicbrainz.org\/\">musicbrainz<\/a> is looking for some bootstrapping money.  This, of course, means that I need to direct your attention there, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/metabrainz.org\/finances\/fundraiser.html\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>so, please step up.  i&#8217;ve done the quick homework for you, both the irs and guidestar have the metabrainz foundation, inc. listed as a charity (with not much data, considering it&#8217;s a new entity), so i&#8217;ll go ahead and vouch for robert and his work.<\/p>\n<p>right now, it looks like musicbrainz is tracking some 250,000 albums from just a bit more than 150,000 artists (and that ratio says a lot).  if you&#8217;re not familiar with what musicbrainz does, a quick visit <a href=\"http:\/\/musicbrainz.org\/wd\/AboutMusicBrainz\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a> will get you clued-in.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m going to say that robert kaye is good people.  he&#8217;s assembled a bunch of good people (including <a href=\"http:\/\/joi.ito.com\/archives\/2005\/04\/19\/metabrainz_goes_501c3_and_announces_board.html\">this one<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lessig.org\/blog\/archives\/002835.shtml\" class=\"broken_link\">this one<\/a>) to keep this project doing good things.  and, finally, this is important for the future of music, particularly for the independent, small-scale musician i love so much.<\/p>\n<p>[ listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/musicbrainz.org\/track\/07984a28-a221-417b-91a0-d01daa24d9ef.html\">songbomb<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve been off-and-on with robert for i guess years now, and tonight i got an important message&#8230; musicbrainz is looking for some bootstrapping money. This, of course, means that I need to direct your attention there, which is here. so, please step up. i&#8217;ve done the quick homework for you, both the irs and guidestar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}