If possible, we'd like to keep discussion either here or in elmcity-development, and not in the blog comments, since it makes things to be more trackable (hey, I invented a word!). Thanks. - Nikita Pchelin

Thanks team, great job! At http://elmcity.cloudapp.net/service... (scroll to 9:30PM) you can see one example of the MySpace feature in use. I bookmarked http://myspace.com/jatobamusic with the tags trusted+indirect+feed and also filter=keene. This band has a bunch of upcoming appearances, but that's the only one in Keene and thus the only one selected by the filter for the Keene hub. - Jon Udell

LibraryThing works the same way. There aren't any library events for Keene, and typically aren't for smaller places, but those of you in bigger places should be able to find some. - Jon Udell

Nikita, I'm afraid Charles Dickens would disagree with your invention claim: http://bit.ly/trackable - Jory Graham

Yes, trackable is indeed a word. But inventing words is a good thing to do (http://blog.jonudell.net/2007...) -- so keep trying! - Jon Udell

okey, I'll go for a smaller achievement: I found a word that Firefox dictionary /thinks/ does not exist ^^ - Nikita Pchelin

sweet this is great. Thanks for the myspace as this lets me pull in pretty much every live music event going on in our town since a guy has setup a myspace page specifically for tracking all live bands in Huntington. It's a good day for me in calendar land. - Bill Rawlinson

well boo - the myspace page no longer shows the calendar and the owner of the page is equally disappointed. He says myspace changed its setup so that I have to log into the site to see the calendar. GAH that's annoying. Hopefully I can just convince him to start using an open calendar. - Bill Rawlinson

Bill, actually we are working on this - as long as it's open to all users of myspace we soon should be able to login before requesting calendar information. Stay tuned :) - Nikita Pchelin

Is there a way to restrict the radius for events on the LibraryThing feed? It seems the default is 5 miles and it pulls in things that are outside Berkeley. On the MySpace feed, it looks as though there is someone named Berkeley who has the page for http://www.myspace.com/berkele.... Is there a way to specify a place rather than a person? - Lance Knobel

[[[ Is there a way to restrict the radius for events on the LibraryThing feed? ]]] The radius= parameter is passed along silently so that should just work. - Jon Udell

[[[ Is there a way to specify a place rather than a person ]]] In this case you bookmark one ore more pages corresponding to bands who perform locally. Since a band that plays Berkeley will also play elsewhere in the region, you can restrict by using filter=berkeley. What you can't do, because MySpace doesn't (to my knowledge) enable it, is ask in a single request for all Berkeley events. In my opinion MySpace /should/ support that, and /should/ emit iCalendar feeds so it wouldn't be necessary to scrape HTML pages, and I'd be delighted to see that happen. This solution is admittedly a workaround. But still, I hope, useful. - Jon Udell

Im curious if the myspace page has to be a bands page - or can it be any myspace page with a calendar on it? For instance my example page: http://www.myspace.com/hunting... - is managed by a guy in town who is normally up on all the local shows going on. He manually aggregates all local band shows and puts the calendar there. It just so happens that, at the moment, the page only has one event on it. - Bill Rawlinson

An example of a scrapeable page is http://collect.myspace.com/index... -- if there's an equivalent for huntingtonunderground then it should work. - Jon Udell