last night, am and i went to listen to tim westergren, the founder of pandora internet radio give a presentation at the defoor center.
you may remember i got the chance to interview tim for a post on the atlanta metroblog (here) a week or so ago so even though i was exhausted from the trip to vegas i felt obligated to go.
tim did not disappoint. he told a great story about how pandora and the music genome project was created. but more importantly he totally responded to the passion of the users/listeners. and they were passionate. one guy described pandora as ‘leveling the playing field’ for artists and genres that don’t attract big marketing attention.
i’ll probably discuss in more detail in a web remix column about it and cover in more detail, but figured i could dump initial impressions here.
in the meantime i am motivated to try to interact with pandora at a deeper level.
right now i am trying to create a pop punk fun station.