jam

 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.

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

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
 * 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
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
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
undefined 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 examples: (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
 * http://tantek.com/2016/274/t1/beautiful-mandalay-you-are-beautiful
 * POSSE tweet: https://twitter.com/t/status/782019850545668096 (note Twitter auto-embeds second link, not the first jam link). The FB POSSE copy (even via Twitter) properly auto-embeds the jam link instead.

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
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
posts jams using ACME notes since at least 2016-06-25, e.g.
 * https://adactio.com/notes/10874 (also a multijam)

Chris Aldrich
posts jams using the Post Kinds plugin for WordPress beginning on 11/28/16. I'm using the ♫ prefix along with the artist and song title followed by an embed that will preferably play the song inline. My typical workflow is to use a PESOS set up which scrapes my Last.fm account (via RSS) for "loved" songs and posts to WordPress via an IFTTT applet. Despite the points of failure, this is quick and easy and can also easily be replaced/supplemented with a bookmarket for Post Kinds which uses the following pattern:  where '@url' is replaced by a link to the song for quicker posting.

Neil Mather
posts jams using the Post Kinds plugin for WordPress.


 * Output is an h-entry, with a p-jam-of property which is an h-cite where I put the track name, album title, and artist name, along with a url to the corresponding musicbrainz page for the track.
 * In the content I'll put an embed to the video online, e.g. at youtube.
 * Example: https://doubleloop.net/2018/09/20/jam-perverted-undertone-by-prefuse-73/.

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

Last.fm
Since ????-??-?? (first noticed in December 2018), Last.fm has allowed users to indicate the sentiment of a jam, though they call it one's "current obsession". Any scrobbled song can be set as a current obsession (separate from likes in their system) which will be shown on the user's profile page similar to a pinned post. Current obsessions can be deleted or changed at any time, but are set to automatically expire within a week.





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:
 * undefined - see example permalinks above. selfdogfood

Markup and content
Consider marking up your jams as: Then follow this content pattern, start content with:
 * a simple note h-entry
 * white space
 * link/embed of music video/audio
 * link/embed of music video/audio

Trying this:
 * undefined - see example permalinks above. selfdogfood

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 "♫"

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"