Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 10:16 am on 4/28/2006
Once upon a time, I had articles and posting privileges up at Justin Hall’s proto-metafiltery thing at bud.com. Some of my early geek culture writing got a lot of great exposure there. Well, all that stuff is gone now, but that’s okay, because now Justin is prepping the first online roleplaying game that you play just by existing; a concoction of self-surveillance, shadow identity and statistical analysis that stands poised to do your head right the fuck in. Check out the notes in the PowerPoint slides if you’re able. (If you’re not able, you know about OpenOffice, right?)
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Posted by site admin at 2:31 pm on 4/25/2006
Matt Blackbeltjones, that guy who links to me, says I’m looking for Pandora.FM, which certainly makes sense. Some frames and JavaScript (how refreshingly 1998!) turn Pandora into an input for the last.fm system. Very cool. I can’t help wishing vaguely that we could close the loop and do it the other way around too, or do some other nicely integrative thing, but that’s probably just the brain cloud talking again.
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Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 8:35 am on 4/19/2006
Pandora is a music streaming service which takes the name of a band or song, and delivers you a “station” full of songs it thinks is musically related. By “musically related” it means musically: it uses a bunch of criteria cooked up by something called the Music Genome Project, like tempo, “subtle use of vocal harmony,” “extensive vamping,” or “syncopated beats.” It lets you say whether you particularly like or hate a song it comes up with, and also lets you skip to the next song without expressing an opinion really. So: yeah. Yay Pandora.
last.fm is a music streaming service which takes the name of a band or song, or the name of one of last.fm’s users, and delivers you a “station” full of songs it thinks is musically related, or sometimes just a list of songs with brief previews, or sometimes neither… but you can usually get to a radio feed of some kind if you stumble around for a bit. By “musically related” it means liked by other users who profess to like the music you searched for. It lets you say whether you particularly like or hate a song it comes up with, and also lets you skip to the next song without expressing an opinion really. So: yeah. Yay la– OK, wait a sec.
I kind of have a problem, both because last.fm seems to be emerging as blogdom’s favorite of the two, and because the two seem to represent an old problem of the net.
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