With WebVisions, code camp, and OSCON all around the same time, it’s tough deciding which one to go to. It always comes down to one since getting away from work two weeks in a row would be a challenge and burning a weekend at code camp wouldn’t fly at home. I’ve never gone to OSCON and last year was my first year at WebVisions. Though slanted mostly towards designers, there’s still enough for developers, marketers, entrepreneurs, etc.

The PDX Web Innovators group is having a meetup this Wednesday at 7:00 (details here). With WebVisions starting on Thursday, this will be a good warm-up. We’d welcome any of the out of towners coming in Wednesday evening. The Rose & Raindrop is not far from the Convention Center area. PDX Web Innovators is essentially a group of web enthusiasts (developers, designers, entrepreneurs, project managers, etc.) who get together and talk about what’s going on with the web these days.

I’m exploring some new project ideas and was wondering if anyone knew where to get an API for music, as in I’d like to know about artists, albums, songs, etc. Kind of like an IMDB for music with an open API? And free? I haven’t found anything yet. Seems like that could be a project in of itself, but not quite what I’m looking to do. There are a couple sites like allmusic and discogs that have pretty extensive databases but no open api.

It seems that Jot has removed our one page PDX Web Innovators wiki (http://pdxwebinnovators.jot.com/). Why would they do such a thing? Becuase it suffered a major case of comment spam and that caused the page count to be exceeded for the free plan. Sounds reasonable? Well, I see a few problems here: The fact that it was so easily comment spammed The fact that comments are considered pages in their plans I could find no way to mass delete comments and I was not about to delete several hundred of them by hand.

Congratuations to the OSU Beavers, the 2006 NCAA Division I baseball champions. Facing elimination 6 times in Omaha, the Beavs won all 6. Unbelievable. Oregonians everywhere, no matter a Duck or Beaver, are celebrating this tremendous accomplishment.