http://www.internettime.com/2006/10/the-perfect-thing/ from Jay Cross and Internet Time Group Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:23:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.internettime.com/2006/10/the-perfect-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-787 Rex Davenport Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:31:52 +0000 http://internettime.com/?p=731#comment-787 Jay: Thanks for the iPod piece. I enjoyed the observations of S. Levy and although I am too much of an Irishman to believe in randomness (I tend to think of fluke-ish actions being the result of God having a bit of sport with us), I do not dismiss the notion. On my iPod Mini (the model that lasted about a year) I seldom rely on shuffling, so I cannot attest to the device's ability to guess what I need to hear. I create my own playlists based on my moods, listening needs (long flights or my regular drives from Southern Indiana to Wisconsin), or even the season (my October 2006 playlist is rolling in my ears right now). With a subscription to eMusic and regular buying trips to iTunes I can get almost any song I want and have it in my rotation in a matter of two minues. Even highly segmented satellite radio like the Bluegrass Channel on Sirius, as much as I like it, is not as perfectly aligned as my own growing and adaptable bluegrass playlist. On RexRadio, I never have to wait to hear Tim O'Brien's "Cornbread Nation. For a very personal music experience, I suggest everyone try Pandora.com, the Music Genome Project. You build your own favorite radio station (or two or three) by telling it what you like and don't like. Pandora then finds similar songs and offers them to you for you to keep or kill. It is not random, but it is highly evolved response technology. And, frankly, it's cool. Jay:
Thanks for the iPod piece. I enjoyed the observations of S. Levy and although I am too much of an Irishman to believe in randomness (I tend to think of fluke-ish actions being the result of God having a bit of sport with us), I do not dismiss the notion. On my iPod Mini (the model that lasted about a year) I seldom rely on shuffling, so I cannot attest to the device’s ability to guess what I need to hear. I create my own playlists based on my moods, listening needs (long flights or my regular drives from Southern Indiana to Wisconsin), or even the season (my October 2006 playlist is rolling in my ears right now). With a subscription to eMusic and regular buying trips to iTunes I can get almost any song I want and have it in my rotation in a matter of two minues. Even highly segmented satellite radio like the Bluegrass Channel on Sirius, as much as I like it, is not as perfectly aligned as my own growing and adaptable bluegrass playlist. On RexRadio, I never have to wait to hear Tim O’Brien’s “Cornbread Nation. For a very personal music experience, I suggest everyone try Pandora.com, the Music Genome Project. You build your own favorite radio station (or two or three) by telling it what you like and don’t like. Pandora then finds similar songs and offers them to you for you to keep or kill. It is not random, but it is highly evolved response technology. And, frankly, it’s cool.

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