The Optimist Conspectus: Sam Ford

Despite the current troubling economic times, which affect the media industries and the academy alike, I can’t help but find myself personally optimistic. The primary reason, I would suspect, is that I am just naturally an optimistic person, or so I’ve been told. That can perhaps lead to some naivete, but I’ve always hoped to [...]

Radio, Radio

Among the few presentations I regret missing at SXSW was Anthony Volodkin’s panel on music discovery. Thankfully, the entirety of Anthony and Paul Lamere’s Powerpoint presentation on ‘why is music recommendation broken’ has been posted online (and embedded below):
Help! My iPod thinks I’m emo.
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Jason Herskowitz, on Globallistic, digs deeper into [...]