Last week I took control of my tunes and spoken word pieces on LastFM. I’d noticed that various parties had been uploading my tracks there and figured it was about time I did something about it. I don’t have a problem with people file exchanging my tunes, but drum and bass label Moving Shadow had uploaded my spoken word album Cyber-Sadism Live! and totally destroyed the flow of that album by re-ordering the tracks. Of course, anyone can listen to the tracks from Cyber-Sadism Live! any which way they want, but with the original running order restored you can listen to the live sets collected there as they were performed, if that’s what you wanna do!
Having claimed my LastFM profile, I find myself lumbered with a 25 page list of ‘similar artists’ that some jokers have suggested over the past year or two. Those allegedly making audio similar to mine include DJ Spooky, Philip Glass, Paul Bowles, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy and Herbie Hancock. If I sounded like Herbie Hancock I’d be a very happy man – but let’s face it, I don’t! And if I sounded like Phillip Glass, I think I’d kill myself! Anyway, you can hear my punk rock tunes and spoken word pieces for free and even get free downloads at:
http://www.last.fm/music/Stewart+Home
If you wanna contribute track descriptions and other infotainment to accompany them, that will save me the effort of writing up this schlock myself! I assume you’d need to be a member of LastFM to do this, but it doesn’t cost anything to join.
Moving on, I recently got around to joining Technorati, the search engine and site dedicated to the blogosphere. Does anyone have any good uses for this site? Like so much of the web it seems to be a pointless popularity contest, so those with the most links get featured and the content I’ve seen as a result of this tends to be incredibly lame and inane. I’ve yet to find anything via Technorati that actually interests me. So far the most useful thing I’ve done on Technorati is big up some of my friends. I’ve favourited those of you I’ve found, and written a slightly lesser number of enthusiastic blog reviews too. I don’t know if this will do you any good, but if you want to return the favour then you can find me at the following url:
http://technorati.com/blogs/stewarthomesociety.org/blog
I tried to locate blogs that groove me via Technorati using a variety of search methods, because I wanted to know how easy we are to find there – but about the only thing that pulled most of you up was entering your url into their search engine. If I have to do that to find blogs I already know about and like, it seems very unlikely I’ll just stumble across something interesting using Technorati. If anyone has any tips about using this site please add them in the comments. Since so many of us have joined this site, I hope it has some useful function! If I haven’t found you on Technorati, then if you favourite and/or review me, this will alert me to your presence on this site. Let’s be as nepotistic as the scum at the top of the Technorati pile – after all, we have better blogs than they do!
And while you’re at it don’t forget to check – www.stewarthomesociety.org – you know it makes (no) sense!