Tuesday, 17 March 2009 at 5:00PM
Moderators:
- Elliott Hurst - Supernova.com
- Sandy Hurst - Supernova.com
Description: The way we discover music has entirely changed in less than 10 years. Radio’s aging demo is presented with safe mainstream offerings. Music discovery is at the forefront of technology and social networks, yet no new standard has successfully been adopted. Websites abound attempt at both data and user generated rating/filter systems. Human VS algorithm: what method can save us?
How do we find music in today’s world?
I am not sure how much I can take notes in this. I will only type what is cool to me.
Machines really have the opportunity to mine the long tail. One guy is saying that human recommendation systems push out diversity because the more popular dominates. But I think that there are enough people that are looking for undiscovered stuff. Identify with one of those searchers and you can discover mucho.
Mentioned methods/sites that are new to me:
Methods I use:
- last.fm
- thesixtyone.com
- pandora
- http://www.npr.org/music/
- Friends who have good taste
