The Next New Thing

I would suggest a website specifically designed to link music and video producers together.  Artists can post profiles and for a monthly fee, they would have access to other profiles of artists that would be interested in collaboration.  Along with profiles, they would be able to have skype-like meetings over the website and find out if they have any chemistry rather than having to perpetually rent space to rehearse and re-rehearse every goon on the planet who has gotten their name added to or contributed in some way to a creative endeavour.  The reason that I would recommend this be a pay for use site is to qualify prospective artists who want to meet other professionals and professional caliber talent for collaborative efforts rather than having to swim through an ocean of crappy profiles, and craigslist ads/responses.  The site could be non-profit, and funding could ultimately be used to hire several techs to maintain the site, as well as pooled for competition prize money to help fund some of these collaborations.  This would add some critical insight to music and video production that has been lacking for some time.