On 2006 May 01, at 8:48 PM, Kathy Forer wrote:
The concept isn't quite as personal as yours, -- it's a commercial
service customizing a feed to your taste, not an individually
produced station, -- and some are lacking in variety and depth,
but there are a few pretty darn good custom radio stations out
there now. Some even allow you to "share" your profile with others.
http://www.gnoosic.com/
http://www.pandora.com
http://music.yahoo.com/launchcast/station.asp
http://www.last.fm/
http://www.soundflavor.com/
http://epitonic.com/
http://di.fm/
Yup, some of these are great.
There's also odeo.com which is a real goody too!
They *would* be more personalized if they
didn't have these government restrictions
(usually having to do with how many songs by one artist
that can be played back to you in a row for instance).
I've been with Last FM for about 14 months
and there's a great exchange of ideas there.
Apart from those, you can really get "personal"
using something like "Nicecast":
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/nicecast/
With them (and probably others that are PC friendly),
anyone can narrowcast from their desktop. If I want to hear
ForeRadio, then you send out your narrowcast address
and anyone can listen to what you're listening to or "sending out".
It's how I did the "rodcast" with the Fluxus/Dada sounds.
Democratic radio for all!
R~~
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