“It’s gigantic,” said Laura Quinn, chief executive officer of Catalist, a company that maintains a database of 280 million Americans. The list is as “transformational” as the advent of political advertising, she said.
I think it’s quite right to say that Obama’s “problem” with Rev. Wright is not going to go away. Wright represents too much that is unresolved and perhaps unresolvable about our nation. Our society is not ready to hear the simple truth that we, too, will have to somebody stand naked before God and face the judgment that is to come.
Read the entire damn thing if you’re at all interested in US politics.
The greatest difference in the Last.fm vs Pandora experience might be that Pandora is more likely to display diversity in the age of the songs it plays. Just now, listening to a “Joni Mitchell Similar Artists” station, barely any 2000s artists played. People’s listening habits often confine themselves to a certain period, and this is taken along into Last.fm’s learning of similarities. Pandora, which only focuses on musical similarity and uses actual analysts, does not have this limit.
