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Dave Taylor has been involved with the online world since 1980 and
is recognized globally as an expert on both technical and business
issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related
startup companies, has written twenty business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed.
He's a columnist for the Boulder Daily Camera and
Linux Journal and frequently appears
in other publications both online and in print.
Additionally, Dave maintains four weblogs:
The Business Blog at Intuitive.com,
Ask Dave Taylor,
Dave On Film,
and
GoFatherhood.
Based in beautiful Boulder, Colorado, Dave is an award-winning speaker, sought after conference and workshop participant and
frequent guest on radio and podcast programs, as well as active member of
his community and busy single father to three children.
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Musical discovery in the digital age: Owl City -> The Postal Service
Fascinating experience that just turned me on to a new band and a great demonstration of the unintended consequences of allowing user comments and ratings of products...
Listening to a song from Owl City (Adam Young)'s latest CD, I was wondering if there's a newer one on the way. What better way to find out than ask on Twitter (I'm @DaveTaylor)? So I sent out:
The response was, no surprise, "Who is Owl City? What kind of music is that?"
I figured the best thing to do was link to an MP3 so I did a quick Google search and saw amazon.com listed. I clicked thru to the Amazon.com downloadable MP3 of "Fireflies", Adam's biggest hit so far. A link to that page in a responding tweet and I'd shared the meme:
While I was on that page, however, I scrolled down to the user reviews, always interested in what other people think about music I like, just to find this:
It was only a click or two to preview some of their tracks and ascertain that, yes, The Postal Service is pretty similar to Owl City.
The result? I just bought a new CD in a very 21st Century version of musical discovery. Cool.
Dave, You are going to love The Postal Service. Might I also suggest Death Cab For Cutie, who are a closely related group sharing at least one member with TPS.
In this digital age, these bands simply appeared on my Winamp list one day. Upon closer scrutiny I discovered it was one of those 'digital natives' we've read so much about, who put them there.
Posted by: Jon on August 14, 2010 12:12 PM
Dave,
Cute little inside joke for you. You know those UPS TV ads with the artist drawing and morphing images as he talks? The song playing behind all those ads is by The Postal Service. Hah. A little inside joke lost on most!
Jim
Posted by: Jim Pollock on August 14, 2010 2:06 PMYou should check out last.fm or Pandora (the music genome project), both are very good at suggesting music based on the bands and songs that you like.
Tina
Posted by: Tina on December 5, 2010 9:02 AM
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