Will Chatham

I have writ­ten here before about my dis­dain for the open wound that is Inter­net Explorer. The folks at StopIE.com are doing some good work to help pro­mote the cause for other browser usage. Pay them a visit.

I have been a devout user of Apple’s iTunes soft­ware for quite some time now. Recently, I read some­where about LastFM, an online radio ser­vice that cus­tomizes itself based upon your musi­cal preferences.

The cool thing is that they have a plu­gin for iTunes that will report to LastFM what you have been lis­ten­ing to. Based on that infor­ma­tion, they do sev­eral things. First, they build a playlist of tunes you can lis­ten to from any­where you can log into your account, tai­lored to your favorite artists. Sec­ond, they build a ‘neigh­bor­hood’ of other mem­bers that have sim­i­lar tastes to you. You can lis­ten to their per­son­al­ized radio streams too.

In this capac­ity, I con­tinue to find a lot of new music I enjoy. The LastFM ser­vice is more or less free (they ask for a dona­tion after a 30 day trial). It’s def­i­nitely worth a checkin’.