Pandora Radio

Joe Allonby joeallonby at gmail.com
Sat Nov 24 12:24:00 CST 2007


Sorry, didn't mean to suggest that you could be replaced by a machine.
Just saying that it's easy for me to just put on my soul music station
and let it play when I've got a lot of folks over and don't want to
constantly change CDs or playlists. It's dummy proof and I'm being
lazy.


On Nov 24, 2007 1:14 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/24/07, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It's great for parties.
>
> Them's fightin' words 'round these parts, where everybody DJs one way
> or another, but ... but one thing I notice is, I find myself NOT
> getting all annoyed and saying, I could do better, 'cos, well perhaps
> I could, there's no one to do better than, there's no one for me to
> get annoyed with.  Though I do find myself trying to work out, what
> algorithm chose this track?  Though there doesn't seem to be one for
> contour in either instance, there's no sense of ebb and flow, of Going
> anywhere at any given instance, no teleology, no narrative ....
>
> I've an idea now for a sort of DJ Turing test ...
>



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