Site Update

OK, that’s the kind of title for a posting that suggests that I’m doing maintenance or some other such stuff – and I’m not. But while at home sick over the last two days (a sickness I thought about blaming on Scott Schwartz, but decided instead to blame on Southwest Airlines) I downloaded last.fm, an application that tracks what music you play on your iTunes and updates it both on their site and – if you choose – on your own. It’s the table to the right, and what shows there are the last ten songs I played on my iTunes. Right now it’s the result of a random shuffle, but it should update fairly frequently, or at least as much as I listen to iTunes through my laptop.

The goal of the service and software is that others can do the same thing, and when it notices that you listen to, for example, The Shins, it will recommend other bands that folks who also listen to The Shins enjoy. Presumably, these will be bands that do not show up on your own playlists. It’s pretty cool, and one of those cool applications that I think highlight the power of the web.

Wow, I’m a geek.