Post date: Sep 13, 2010 2:55:17 AM
I keep remembering the words of that frustrated teenager to his/her parent "Why can't you let me be me?" That teenager who refuses to be defined by her parent, now wants to be defined by a computer program or algorithm? Whatever for the sake of cool but doesn't song recommendations assume just that? If someone can tell you exactly what you want to hear, then we know the name of Big Brother and it ain't Big Brother (they only did near pornographic reality TV). It's Pandora and the whole list of wannabes who want to dictate what you and I will like or not. Pandora is one cool App but it will never take the place of over the air radio that tells you things you don't want to hear and plays you songs that your momma don't want you to hear.
Speaking of mommas not wanting us to hear, rumor has it that none other than Howard Stern himself MAY be gracing the realms of Internet Radio.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2010/09/03/why-howard-sterns-next-act-is-internet-radio/
Well you may or may not be a fan of Howard Stern but together with the likes of Dr Laura
http://www.radioshowlinks.com/internet_radio/dr_laura_schlessinger_h800.aspx
Internet Radio is getting to be a p-r-e-t-t-y interesting place. Idea of the century, put Howard Stern and Dr Laura to host the same show! The show will be so explosive, they would need to get Homeland Security in on it!