{"id":177,"date":"2007-07-29T22:18:38","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T22:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=177"},"modified":"2007-07-29T22:18:38","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T22:18:38","slug":"recent-site-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/29\/recent-site-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Site Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last.fm<\/a> have been doing some great things recently… in fact they have for a long time. I’ve been using them since 25th July 2005 after all!<\/p>\n

As I’ve written about before (although I can’t find the exact post to link to, so maybe I’ve imagined it), they log what you listen to in a range of media players<\/a> and create charts based on that along with recommendations of music you might like and working out who your neighbours are – people with similar musical<\/a> taste. I have the software<\/a> installed on my laptop<\/a> at school for when I’m marking and at home for when I’m doing other things. There is also a piece of software for your iPod<\/a>, although I can’t comment on that because I refuse to own an iPod… It really is very handy and my profile page on the site is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But they also provide little plug-ins for sites such as the ones down the right of the main page. I used to only have a quilt of my top albums<\/a> but I’ve now replaced that with a streaming radio<\/a> based on my musical taste that anyone can use (broadband would be a good idea…), something that shows you my recently played tracks and when I listened to them and, finally, a smaller quilt of my top artists.<\/p>\n

Also, I’ve added an extra subscription option based on my RSS feed. This one’s provided by Bloglines<\/a>, again I’ve been using their RSS notifier personally for a while. But if you want to know when this place is updated – which is rare – it’s a handy thing to have on your computer to link all your RSS feeds<\/a> together in one place.<\/p>\n

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