I was also talking philosophically about getting DT/Mudcat out of the proprietary "I control" mode of "updating" (which has really only ever meant making additions and a few edits) that Dick and Max have, and moving towards a wiki "we collaborate" mode where many people could be working on it at once.

But then, DT/Mudcat is a control freak, hierarchy driven sort of place. Rather the antithesis of the wiki collaborative (and much more democratic) model for grassroots endeavors like the DT/Mudcat music archive.

The whole "well, it's Max's site" mentality around here says it all.

The beef so many people have with Max & Dick show is it ain't THEIRS. The collection should belong to the online music community, and be controlled by the OpenEdit spirit of our online music community, as happens in wiki communities. The online folk & blues community is HUGE. It isn't just this wee backwater.