What is Gigpedia?
The Internet is an invaluable resource for todays music fans. Terabytes of data is spread all over the web, in an unorganized sprawling manner. It's quite amazing, and very messy. Triillions of bits of data, millions of downloadable content, all there for you enjoyment, if only you could find it. Gigpedia.com wants to help all of us do that. Through the community, our goal is to organize the content submitted in such a way that is relevant to you. You decide how information is sorted, arranged and tagged. As a member of the community, you are responsible for telling us what matters, and the community is responsible for the sorting and editing the content that matters. None of the content is written by a writer, none of the content is filtered through an editor, you are the editor. You posted a 2 hour show to a download service, and this is where you can share it. You stumbled across a great post of your favorite message board or blog with a download, if everyone should hear it, post it here.Our Mission
- Gigpedia.com is for you and by you. The users even control what content appears on the front page. More popular content is voted upon, and other content is just passed over. The wisdom of the crowds is the editor of the content, and the content is always fresh. As the community reaches full steam, the front page will be constantly dynamic, changing and adapting with what is current with the community.
- Gigpedia.com is about us and by us. Users can have networks of friends, with similar tastes and preferences. You can talk to friends, or see what they have been voting, tagging, and submitting to the site. Comments can be made of any submission, and the comments themselves can be rated, woah what a concept. If the comment has a negative rating, it won't be on display by default. we are the moderators.
- Gigpedia.com helps you. Remember that site that had that great list of bootlegs that you forgot to bookmark, submit it to Gigpedia, or find it here and it will be permananty organized. By voting on content, you keep a personal record of content you're interested in. Tagging your submissions with relevant data allows the user to be the librarian, allowing for a dynamic and morphing self-organizing system.
- Gigpedia.com is for discovery. By contributing to this site, you are helping others discover the things you love and are passionate about. This site is to help you and others find what you didn't know you were looking for.
About Us
Gigpedia.com is the brain-child of David Senior and Eli Wallach. The project first started as an experiment, with the idea in mind that web 2.0 is the future of the internet, with community driven content at the forefront. The plan was to create a web community where users can post their comments and other users could then vote on comments they agreed with.Who are we? Good question... simple answer. We are you. And you are us... or we... well, the grammer doesn't matter as long as we've gotten the point accross. The point is Gigpedia is no more us, then it is you. We are all part of one community that together makes Gigpedia what it is. Amazing! Why is it amazing? Because it allows free sharing of media and information amongst a community of like-minded people; MUSIC LOVERS. So what makes us so different? Well, for starters, we are the only web site that currently concerns itself with LIVE MUSIC. Don't get us wrong we appreciate all of the web sites our there that aim to share indie or underground or new, or however you want to describe it music. We commend them, as new music MUST be heard. Our goal however is different. In fact, we have nothing to do with new music, and everything to do with old music. Live music! Trading live music (commonly known as ‘bootlegging’) has been around for many years. Trading has seen its ups and downs but is still a very vibrant hobby to this day.
