Under Recommendation Engines' Hood

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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[Note:  This item comes from reader Monty Solomon.  DLH]

From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
Date: June 14, 2006 9:39:50 PM PDT
Subject: Under Recommendation Engines' Hood


REAL TIME
By JASON FRY

Under Recommendation Engines' Hood

The Choices Engines Make for Us May Be
More Accurate Than We'd Like to Believe
June 12, 2006

Last week I started playing around with Pandora, a streaming-music
service that several folks have recommended to me. At 37, I'm facing
a familiar trap for music fans: I have less and less time and find
myself gravitating toward the familiar, yet don't want to admit that
my musical tastes have ossified and I'm hopelessly out of it.

Pandora is elegant and simple: Visit the Web site and tell it a
handful of songs and/or artists you like, and it generates a
streaming-media radio station for you, playing songs it thinks you'll
like. You can guide it by indicating you like a song, hate it or are
tired of it. (It's free at first, then asks you to subscribe. Read
more about Pandora here.)

To test it, I began slinging the names of artists and songs I like at
it: OK, Pandora, I like songs by the Sugarhill Gang, the Unband, Guns
N' Roses, Earth Wind & Fire, Steve Earle, Billy Squier, the Rolling
Stones, the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Kanye West, Lucinda Williams,
the Replacements, Ernie K-Doe, The Clash, Lyle Lovett and
Sleater-Kinney. Tell me what to listen to. I dare you.

.....

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