“Blog” itself is short for “weblog,” which is short for “we blog because we weren’t very popular in high school and we’re trying to gain respect and admiration without actually having to be around people.”
Soapbox it. This is a pretty cool site, it lets you review products, which is not revolutionary (A little company called Amazon does this as well) but what is cool is that they’ll subscribe to your blog and if you post a review they’ll include it. I often times want to review things here, because the sound of my own voice intruiges me. This would be a cool way to send those out to the great unwashed masses. Consider yourself warned: Get ready for a lot of reviews in the coming months.
Speaking of reviews: My last.fm charts. I enjoy last.fm. It doesn’t do exactly what I want (a comprehensive overview of all the music I listened to), mostly because sometimes it misses songs that I listened to on my ipod (although in the last few weeks they’ve tweaked their algorithm or something because it’s suddenly much better. It used to miss all my songs if I switched playlists. That seems to have ended and it looks like I got everything). It also misses songs that I listened to on Tivo (which is how I listen to music at home). Here’s an example: The last full week of august I heard 478 total songs, 440 unique songs, from 184 unique artists.
You can tell from that chart that I was in a very Dubby mood, I forced my ipod to be about 20% dub music for the week so Scientist and King Tubby are number two and three on my top artists. Number one was Young Jeezy, because somebody lent me his CD and I listened to it in full a couple of times (mini review: Good, very involved in his rapping, wheezing out bars like it’s killing him).
I don’t know why that stuff fascinates me, but it does. I could look at inane stats all day.
How do you yet your iPod songs to sync to last.fm? YamiPod?
“… we weren’t very popular in high school and we’re trying to gain respect and admiration without actually having to be around people” — I know exactly the type of people you are talking about. Those people suck … wait a minute … you’re talking about me!
jscrob2.
It integrates with iTunes. I synch every day (my synch computer is in our garage entry where I set my keys/wallet/sunglasses/phone and it works well. Sometimes I use audio faucet to stream through tivo and that causes problems because last.fm won’t let you submit songs out of order, so some of them fail. But other than that it’s good.
I don’t have to do anything extra so it’s worth it.
Thanks, I put on jscrob2 last night, but I listened to a song on my computer before I synched, so none of the songs from the ipod were submitted. Boo. I guess I know now.
By the way…I can’t believe you can’t rate songs on last.fm. That seems stupid. I listen to a lot of music one time only, and I’d like a way to convey whether it sucked or not other than number of times played.
yeah, I wish it would pick up your itunes ratings.