At the prompting of friend and music aficionado, T-Dawt, I joined Last.fm the other evening and, I must say, I’m impressed so far.
In short, Last.fm is a social networking site that gives you access to what your friends and neighbors are listening to musically. You can create your own radio stations that friends can listen to (who doesn’t judge their friend’s taste in music…or is that just me?) or you can even download a program that will track what you are listening to on Windows Media Player or Winamp, tally up the statistics and then suggest other, similar artists, through comparison to what folks are listening to. Plus, you can create those really cool album cover “quilts” to put on your site to show how highly individualized you are!
Look, people, don’t make me beg. Join Last.fm and friend me. Quakerjono. See, nice and easy, no new name to remember or anything. It’s important to find new things to listen to, but its more important to win the Online Friend War. At the moment, I have two friends on this site, T-Dawt and noted author and English person Neil Gaiman. And that Gaiman, well, I get the sense he’ll friend anybody.
So do it for your ears. Do it for the camaraderie. Do it for my own shallow sense of self-worth.
Whatever your reason, just do it.
