[extropy-chat] [Social decision-making] Pandora music service breaks new ground

[Jef Allbright]

An article in the LA Times today describes progress and rapid growth of
users with a new way of distributing music based on recognition of shared
(musical) values.

This is exciting because it inverts the tired old model of trying to enlarge
audience share by an averaging or lowest common denominator approach such as
we see with much of television programming.

With this new approach, a larger audience is reached and satisfied by
increasing awareness of the shared aspects of a diverse set of musical
attributes.  Approximately 400 different musical characteristics are
analyzed and then matched with user preferences to determine the likely
value of particular music selections to a particular user.

I expect this higher-intelligence/higher-bandwidth model to spread quickly
to other entertainment domains, followed by news, education, and eventually
applied to increasing awareness of shared human values (not averaged, but
with high detail) for effective social decision-making, formerly known as
politics.

References
[1] LA Times: That Song Sounds Familiar  [Registration may be
required]<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-et-pandora3feb03,1,5395052,full.story>
[2] Jef's Web Files:  Abstract and commentary area for the article and
related subjects <http://www.jefallbright.net/node/3357>
[2] Pandora.com <http://pandora.com/>

- Jef
http://www.jefallbright.net
Increasing awareness for increasing morality
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