Thing 42! Music 2.0

For the last few months at work, I have been listening to MPR online on my work computer when I am back in my office area. I listen to news, and had not tried any of the music sites from Thing 41 until now. It was really fun to "customize" my Pandora list with artists I wanted. I will probably add more later. There is a link to the Pandora artists I selected on the sidebar of the blog. The QuickMix option is my favorite. I also established accounts with live365 and Receiva Internet Radio, and selected some favorites there to return to later.

After Jim Ed Poole retired, and the MPR Morning Show stopped broadcasting, Dale Connelly began Radio Heartland online. In the February 2009 issue of Minnesota Monthly, he said, "As people become accustomed to using their computers as radios, and as digital broadcasting becomes more commonplace, they will discover that it's just as easy to see what we're up to as it's been for the past 25 years." My listening habits have changed, and will continue as I discover more online options. (Thanks to De Bijloke for this photo of Jazz at Lincoln Center on Flickr, 07/07/07).

Thing 40! Mashup the Web

Today I tried MANY of the suggested sites for Thing 40.

For MUSIC, I enjoyed searching and saving selections in Pandora.FM. The link for Splice did not work.

For BOOKS, I checked all of the sites listed.

For SOCIAL, I did an account for Ping.fm. It is good to be able to combine account information for Facebook, Delicious and Twitter. I also tried the Lunchbox and Wheel of Food sites. These sites are more useful when using a zip code such as 55423 in the Twin Cities area rather than our local rural zip code which yields no results. As I have not had lunch yet, thinking of the food sites makes me hungry!

Of the PHOTO/FLICKR sites, my favorite is Interestingness. I had fun doing random views of the photos.

For the VIDEO sites, I enjoyed TimeTube where I used Supreme Court as a search topic and now have a reminder when it is updated.

For GOOGLE, I did a search for a neighborhood under Walkable.


Being I had used Big Huge Labs before, I tried new mashup options, and posted a simple Palyvore fashion one below: