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Double espresso – Last.fm

Nic Price — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:30:36 +0000

Inspired by Tom Coombs’s recent “Have you seen…?” post, here are some of the things I’ve been banging on about recently over a double espresso. First… Last.fm

Last FM

Last.fm plays you music while you’re online. It can create your own personalised radio station based the music you like, using its audioscrobbler music recommendation system. Connect it to iTunes to learn what you’re in to. Or just go to the site and type in the name of a band you like and start listening.

Click the heart symbol in the music player to “Love this track” and your radio station gets ever more tailored to you.

I’m listening over at http://www.last.fm/user/beatnicity.

Starting life in East London in 2002, Last.fm has really come in to its own with the proliferation of broadband and now mobile broadband. In 2007 Last.fm was bought by CBS.

Every track you play will tell your Last.fm profile something about what you like. It can connect you to other people who like what you like – and recommend songs from their music collections and yours too.

Read more at last.fm/about

I’ve heard good things about the Last.fm iPhone app.

And finally if, like me, you like to sing along from time to time, check out Lyrics Muse – which combines Last.fm with a lyrics wiki to display the lyrics of the song you’re listening to in real time. And as the source is a wiki, if you think the lyrics displayed are wrong, you can always go and correct them.

Never can say goodbye

Nic Price — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:36:21 +0000

Have you noticed that on the radio very few, if any, presenters and guests say “goodbye” at the end of an interview or phone call? More often than not they say “thank you” instead. I was just wondering if this … Continue reading →

Ad nonsense

Nic Price — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:04:05 +0000

Listening to Xfm on my phone on the bus on the way home from work on Thursday night and an ad came on that went something like this:

Imagine a world where we all watched one TV channel.

Imagine a world where we all read just one newspaper.

Imagine a world where we all used just one search engine.

Now I don’t know about you, but right now I’m thinking about one search engine, and it’s probably the same one you’re thinking of too.

So the ad continues…

Ask.com… the other search engine.

At this stage I’m momentarily thinking I’d heard “arse dot come” – seriously, that’s what it sounds like.

But I’m also still thinking about one search engine, and it’s not ask.com.

I’d be very interested to know how the agency involved persuaded a company to accept that they’re second best, that they’re other.

Japanese slang

Nic Price — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:45:16 +0000

Japanese slang for a man with a combover hairstyle is “barcode head”

Heard on Anita Anand’s show on Radio 5 Live last night.

Jury selection in the trial of Michael Jackson

Nic Price — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 21:00:55 +0000

Knock Knock

Who’s there?

Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson who?

You’re on the jury!

Joke heard on this morning’s Broadcasting House on BBC Radio 4

They’ve got a point