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 [...]
Published on April 10, 2009 8:50 pm.
Filed under: Ephemera, Links Tags: academic life, Convergence Culture Consortium, current state, economy, emotion, friday night lights, guiding light, MIT, optimism, people, 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 [...]
Published on March 29, 2009 10:34 pm.
Filed under: Ephemera, Links Tags: music, passive, presentations, radio