so long shania

Logged into iameveryone's last.fm account and played Neighbour Radio again. Noted -- just like last.fm -- Radiohead was top of the pops. Weekly top artists were as follows: Nina Simone, Old 97's, Lily Allen, Belle and Sebastian, The Postal Service, Modest Mouse, Shania Twain, Spoon, The Beatles and Controller 7. Any surprises there?

I am wondering if an attempt to befriend the 50 neighbours showing up on IAEs last.fm Overview page has been made now that enough tracks have been played to generate the lists on a weekly basis? Does IAE have time for this?

Ran iameveryone through mainstream on vincentahrend.com and found IAE is 36.26% of mainstream! That's the rolling stat... I think it would be a little more interesting to track this data from week to week. IAE was -- for plays falling between 15th and 22nd of April 2007 -- 30.45% of mainstream! As time passes, and participation hopefully grows, do you think the stats will fall in line with those posted by last.fm or veer off in another direction?

Logged into IAEs blogger account and streamlined the html running the template. With the compressed code, the IAE blogger pages should load 25 to 28% faster (and running a few test loads on various browsers seems to bear this out). It's the little things, eh. (As I doubt casual users of IAE's last.fm are bothering with reading the mail), I posted a couple of last.fm mails I though worth launching into the blogosphere.

Read the 23rd of April 2007 entry concerning IAEs eighteen month parcel wait; sounds -- as the package was in such good condition -- it never left the company's mail/shipping department; went down behind a desk or something. Wrote up this post and signed out of IAE's last.fm account, noticing someone else had slid into the account, playing Def Leppard and Guns 'n Roses and Metallica. So long, Shania.

and all the other little things

Signed into iameveryone's last.fm account and played Neighbour Radio for half an hour; was surprised to hear a number of tracks that would have looked right at home on my personal Playlist. Edited text in the last.fm Details sidebar -- just the formatting -- so details of the experiment grouped nicely and everything wasn't all smooshed together.

Signed into iameveryone's blogger account -- still listening to iameveryone's Neighbour Radio -- read through the posts and decided, on deliberation, to bring the type pitch up a notch so it jumped off the grey background with a little less effort, changed the colour of the blogger navbar to match the theme and ticked of the notify of new blog posts by email option.

Was just about to sign out and clear off when the idea to link a feed from the last.fm project page hit me. So I posted a Recently Played Tracks feed in a widget panel to tie the projects to one another and decided -- with all the changes wrought in such a sort span of time -- I'd best document it and all the other little things.