Sunday, October 18, 2009

Web 2.0: Pandora

As I have already mentioned in a previous blog, I am extremely into the music scene. And as great as I thought the other website was, I found Pandora, which offers an equally incredible and unique advantage to collecting music. Pandora is an online radio website that creates unique stations that are tailored to your preferences in music. The user simply needs to enter an artist name, song title, or composer, and Pandora will create a radio station using that artist, and other artists that are similar to the one you selected. This is very exciting for me, because I always am frustrated that the only artists I know are either ones I've known and loved for years, or ones that my closest friends have told me about. Now a whole new world of music will be opened up for me.
Similarly to Blyper, Pandora doesn't have a literal application to the elementary school setting. I still feel strongly, though, that helping students learn about tools such as Pandora will inevitably help them become more cultured and well-rounded people as they grow older.

http://www.pandora.com/stations/27cceb41dd9b1afb0d10f69ab632d6e6fc083eb2d8dfd754#

The link I have provided is my first created radio station on Pandora. The artist I chose to have Pandora find similar bands to was MSTRKRFT. I was pleased to find that Pandora not only gave a description of the type of music I asked for, but also created a great list of songs that I loved!

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