Comments on: More on rich veins: Not fooled by randomness http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/07/17/more-on-rich-veins-not-fooled-by-randomness/ a blog about information Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sean http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/07/17/more-on-rich-veins-not-fooled-by-randomness/comment-page-1/#comment-164881 Sean Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:16:34 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/07/17/more-on-rich-veins-not-fooled-by-randomness/#comment-164881 I basically have two music listening modes. One - when I'm working on my laptop - is to listen to 'my last.fm radio station' (you can too by clicking on the play button in the right sidebar of my blog...indeed this is how I usually access it too); I don't think I've ever had a bad set and it is better than iTunes shuffle because it includes music that I don't have (I imagine from last.fm 'friends' and 'neighbors'.) Nothing puts a smile on your face faster than hearing a great song that you had 'forgotten about' pop up in the playlist...and often I wander over to iTunes and buy it (actually I would do this almost automatically if there was a 'buy song or album (choose) from iTunes' button in the player/widget - and I suspect many others would as well...make it easy and people have no problem spending money. Thus so sad that if <a href="http://www.parkparadigm.com/?p=251" rel="nofollow">last.fm had to be sold</a>, it wasn't to Apple. Anyhow this £18/year last.fm service is worth every penny. Highly recommended. (or just play my station for free if you can stand my taste in music! ;) ) The other way (I listen to music) is via my iPod (either on the move or hooked up to home audio) sometimes via shuffle (often highest rated, or recently played) or by artist. But if it <a href="http://chezverdon.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/what-i-want-for-christmas/" rel="nofollow">really were (drop dead) easy to do</a>, I suspect I would be tuned into my last.fm station most of the time, where ever I was... I basically have two music listening modes. One – when I’m working on my laptop – is to listen to ‘my last.fm radio station’ (you can too by clicking on the play button in the right sidebar of my blog…indeed this is how I usually access it too); I don’t think I’ve ever had a bad set and it is better than iTunes shuffle because it includes music that I don’t have (I imagine from last.fm ‘friends’ and ‘neighbors’.) Nothing puts a smile on your face faster than hearing a great song that you had ‘forgotten about’ pop up in the playlist…and often I wander over to iTunes and buy it (actually I would do this almost automatically if there was a ‘buy song or album (choose) from iTunes’ button in the player/widget – and I suspect many others would as well…make it easy and people have no problem spending money. Thus so sad that if last.fm had to be sold, it wasn’t to Apple. Anyhow this £18/year last.fm service is worth every penny. Highly recommended. (or just play my station for free if you can stand my taste in music! ;) )

The other way (I listen to music) is via my iPod (either on the move or hooked up to home audio) sometimes via shuffle (often highest rated, or recently played) or by artist.

But if it really were (drop dead) easy to do, I suspect I would be tuned into my last.fm station most of the time, where ever I was…

]]> By: Blob » Openness - Going Beyond Transparency http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/07/17/more-on-rich-veins-not-fooled-by-randomness/comment-page-1/#comment-164148 Blob » Openness - Going Beyond Transparency Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:48:13 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/07/17/more-on-rich-veins-not-fooled-by-randomness/#comment-164148 [...] our “social media” culture and the implied transparency he writes: When I scanned the list I was very tempted to take out the Boney M song, but I didn’t. It felt [...] [...] our “social media” culture and the implied transparency he writes: When I scanned the list I was very tempted to take out the Boney M song, but I didn’t. It felt [...]

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