Several weeks ago, I came across a new service for recommending music: http://www.owlmm.com/ It seems like a great idea. You visit the website, select a track of mp3 music from your local machine, select a segment of the track and it will recommend tracks that are similar to your selected segment.
I tried the service with one sample track and think that the technology has potential but wasn’t terribly impressed with its accuracy overall. This seems like a systematic way of matching characteristics in a way more like Pandora that needs additional attributes to tighten up the results. I love that it has a huge database of alternative music sources (cc and Magnatune). That’s a plus.
When I have time, I'm going to give it a more thorough test run because I want to love the service.
I wonder if the very politically correct business types realize that when they "ping" an associate they're really groping them. PING - Packets Internet Groper. I guess groping is alright if done in packets.
retronym \REH-troh-nim\ noun
: a term consisting of a noun and a modifier which specifies the original meaning of the noun. (e.g. The names of such out-of-date technology as "console television set," are examples of retronyms. The oldest print usage that we know of for the word "retronym" itself is from William Safire's column "On Language" in a 1980 issue of The New York Times. There, he discusses how then-president of National Public Radio, Frank Mankiewicz, collects what he calls "retronyms."
source: Merriam-Webster
It's interesting to think about neologisms fading into retronym status.
Check out the European Space Agency's website that has an incredible ability to show images that are only 2 hours old! Be amazed: http://miravi.eo.esa.int/en/
From Mirriam Webster: a person whose job is to find, collect, and manage information that is available on the World Wide Web.
Is Google the ultimate cybrarian?
