Pandora Scores a Hit with Classical Music Addition
Last night Pandora officially introduced their new Classical music genre.
After hundreds of hours of music analysis by the highly trained staff at Pandora, based in Oakland, CA, the company best known for the free play approach to music streaming, announced the availability of a Classical music genre into their public music discovery engine.
Held at The Regency Center on Sutter Street in SF, tonights event was a skit/performance including cast of Tim Westergren, an on-command orchestra, individual performances by an artist with an alto? recorder, an opera singer and a totally fantastic trumpet/brass artist. Open bar and Bose as sponsors rounded out the night. Bose does have some fantastic products for computer originated sound.
Pandora knows how to throw a good party, that’s certain. With ambient red and blue light party atmosphere, roving waiters, interesting people, the evening was entertaining, interesting and a wonderful chance to salute a revolutionary company.
Pandora continues to help me find the most interesting new bands, but also now let’s me discover different older, original masters of the audio arts.
Now, enjoy a few photos.
un-voiced rants, do they make a noise?
The IM stream started out fairly peaceful, if a bit, umm.. I dunno, antagonistic maybe.
THE RANT
there should be a law that says that no consumer should be held accountable in a contract in which the consumer cannot be expected to understand the language of the contract.
I said:
“lol
I might twitter that if I were you
some of the twitter ranters have quite a following”
Then he went on to say:
speaking of having a following, don’t you think you are more likely to fall into domestic wiretapping if you have followers in social networking with links to al quida?
what do you think the chances are you are literally 2 degrees away from a terrorist?
you early adopters are like the cavemen who tried the new berries. i’m watching you to find out what happens.\
i want to delete my facebook account because there are people adding me as a friend that i don’t want the world to confuse as an actual friend.
i now report all linkedin emails as spam. the only thing linked in ever sends me is spam.
i get requests to link into people i’ve never heard of. and i get 3 reminder emails every time i try to ignore it, so it’s in fact 3x worse than spam.
i am hiding my connections list on linkedin.
recruiters have been able to use me to get to my network without my consent and without going through reasonable channels. i was a zombie social spam node.
facebook is very scary to me. you tell facebook about your personal relationships, and facebook will notify all of your friends when you break up with your girlfriend. all your friends at once. you no longer are empowered to pick and choose how you communicate sensitive information. social networking is like 21st centry nudism.
it all hangs out where everybody can see.
IF NOBODY HEARS YOU
In my opinion my friend has a very good point here and there. He speaks with force and conviction. Shows his passion well. Problem is, of course, I’m the only person that hears his “voice”. And I’ve heard the general concept before. He does continue to come up with relevant points, but I expect that.
That which he is against is that which can make his point heard by more people, who might qualify and maybe modify his point of view. A catch-22 situation. What to do?
If anyone reads this, I’ll let comments speak for themselves.
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- curious about Brabblr. Can anyone invite me? #
- wow
http://urltea.com/1zey # - would love to connect my 2 docked iPod libraries with all my twitter peeps. one big happy p2p network #
- @tconrad /me is jealous #
- @gstein Pandora is my muse each day http://urltea.com/1zh0 #
- gave the blog a roto-rooter clean-out today. finally upgraded to 2.3.1 and installed plugin output caching system and some new toys #
- Social Networks Follow Us http://abbrr.com/TMG #
Social Networks Follow Us
We join a “#social network” and then the networked within start to follow us. We also add new “friends” but don’t much differentiate amongst our choices. We have true friends, special friends, acquaintances, strangers with similar passions, strangers with ulterior motives, causes, game systems, and many other categories of #groupings and #microcrowds, but we fail to automate the connections in an actionable manner. We might as well be “friending” the whole world if we don’t differentiate our interactions. Without flavors of “friends” we lose our context, our ability to use our relationships in a way that builds a stronger lifestyle rather than engendering attraction to the shallowness of our current situation when highly entwined in online social interaction.
It currently takes too much effort to stay well connected, with our collective engagement fractured to an extent that has never been seen before in human history. We interact with and are distracted by highly attractive but subjective information spurts, forced into our attention window by our environments. We gain much in this interaction, but I believe many people on the edge of the adoption curve can foresee a tipping point and the glut of “attention grabbers” will reach a level of personal exhaustion. When we receive the next invitation for anything that grabs our attention we might simply shut down and stop processing, even at the shallow processing level that we’re at today.
What might help >> Open identity systems. Cross site collaborative widgets. API’s. Yes, and…
I know who I am. I know who my friends are. I know how I would classify all the other breeds of contacts that I have. Give me a method, manner, protocol, process, schema or dogma that works to keep my life automated, my contacts pleasant and my lifestyle interesting.
Filed under Integrity, Microcrowds, SNAP | Comments (2)
