"If personalization that works truly has broken through, it's possible to imagine a future in which obscure bands do get more time in the sun. Because personalized music recommendation technology in combination with file-trading services like Napster or Gnutella could be an amazingly potent brew. Get the recommendation, listen to the tune via Napster, then click a button and buy the CD. Finally, we may be at the verge of escaping the industry-imposed domination of pop pablum, a world in which the only albums you know to buy are the bland Top 40 hits churned out by your local radio station. Speaking optimistically, personalization may turn out to be not just a cheap buzzword that helps Web sites lure that V.C. cash, but the best thing to happen to indie bands and music fans since, well, the Net."this is exactly why napster did nothing for me and consequently never used it that often. because i didn't really want napster. i want an electronic version of my close friends who have always acted as proxies for my musical taste. you know the type of friend i'm talking about. the ones that habitually haunt the obscure sections of vinyl aisles and read magazines you've never heard of and somehow can always put on a track that really gets you going.
"Napster is now the same thing for me. I log on to Napster and I get to peek inside people's hard drives, people I don't even know but I get to go and see what music they listen to. I would find the very obvious Dozen Champion Performers and let me tell you I have many of them myself but then I get to see what else they listen to and I would discover their music. The magic of discovery takes over and I get to listen to something I have never heard before. Wow. what a wonderful feeling. The person I downloaded music from becomes my instant friend. I feel connected. I get to be inspired and moved by it.by now, i'm just reeling. and it's not just about the idea of imagining the possibilites of working outside the "dozen champion performer model". i'm metaamazed at how this whole thread in my mind is playing out and how it's related to blogging. it's getting difficult to remember a time when i couldn't be sure that i could get online and imagine a world of possibilities. a world of possibilities constructed instantaneously out of a temporal cacophony of links and ideas made possible by people just taking the time to publish their thoughts to the world.
Napster for me is a shared space of conversation for discovery of muisc. It's not a vehicle to get free muisc. It's not an amplification system for Dozen Champion Performer Model. It appears this way but I ask you to dig deeper."
“"it is hard to be brave," said piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal." rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said: "it is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in the adventure before us."”
the complete tales & poems of winnie the poohthis site chronicles the continuing adventures of my son, odin, who was unexpectedly born on the fourth of july at 25 weeks gestation, weighing 1 pound 7 ounces.
he's quite a fighter and you can always send him a postcard to the most current address listed here if you're inspired by his adventures. see the postcard project/google maps mashup to see a map of the postcards.
if you're new, you can browse the archives to catch up. and don't forget to watch a few movies that i made while we were in the neonatal intensive care unit. or if you want the abridged version and you can find a copy, you can read about his adventures in the november 2005 issue of parents magazine.
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