{"id":68,"date":"2006-01-22T10:28:37","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T15:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=68"},"modified":"2020-01-05T17:42:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T22:42:52","slug":"musics-pearly-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/musics-pearly-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"Music&#8217;s pearly gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A month or so ago, an acquaintance who has forgotten more songs than I will ever listen to in my life told me about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/\">this UK site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, via Meg at Blogcabin: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandora.com\/\">Pandora<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of both sites is that you tell them what sort of songs you like, and they assemble a &#8220;radio station&#8221; that streams similar music. You can refine the &#8220;station&#8221; they build for you by giving feedback (e.g. by banning a song that grates on you). You can also share the station\/s you&#8217;ve created with friends.<\/p>\n<p>What a great way to explore music. What a perfect example of how technology can offset the homogenization that tends to result from mass market commerce models. And we didn&#8217;t even need to wait for the Singularity :-D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month or so ago, an acquaintance who has forgotten more songs than I will ever listen to in my life told me about this UK site. Now, via Meg at Blogcabin: Pandora. The idea of both sites is that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/musics-pearly-gates\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[512,511,510],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","tag-last-fm","tag-music-genome-project","tag-pandora"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6545,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/6545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}