Links for 04-01-2008
How to use tags to show why you're making a recommendation and making artist recommendations through overlapping, distinctive tags. This is a really good blog if you're interested in music discovery on the internet.
Visualising gradually moving from artist to artist using descriptive tags while "minimizing iPod whiplash"
Game-like driving/spaceship/roller-coaster music visualiser!
People should be represented by URLs, not email addresses. A number of people round here are starting to look at identity and .
"Cantometrics (roughly speaking, "song measurements") is a method for relating the statistical analysis of (primarily) sonic elements of traditional vocal music (or folk songs) to the statistical analysis of sociological traits"
"Apple plans a push for iTunes Tagging-ready, HD Radio-equipped boomboxes with iPod docks during the mid-January Macworld Expo event". Tag the song playing on the radio, it tells your docked iPod and then later syncs with iTunes so you can buy the song.
Check out the vertical scrolling and expanding and the flagged-up discussions in the .
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