Just a couple of days ago, on Canada Day in fact, I had a eureka moment while reading Michael Gurstein’s piece on “What is Informatics and why does it matter?” In understanding community informatics as a process and not a product, I immediate realized that it has a tremendous level of relevance for the Musin’ concept. It is indeed a community that I have identified — albeit a relatively new one — and since I would like to develop the system in collaboration with the community, the concept fits into CI research quite well. What will be different about it is perhaps the domain in which that it is being applied. I haven’t actually done a search yet of related research to the information needs of people looking for music-related information, but the impression I am getting from the professors I have spoken to is that there isn’t too much out there. Add to that a dose of Latour on design and Sloterdijk and you’ve got my brain going at 100 miles an hour. As for the rest of the month, it looks rather exciting.