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Been doing a bit of IAE surfing around last.fm over the past week, leaving a few comments here and there; it seems to have generated a bit of interest. Judging by content and numbers and times, I'd say there are at least three IAEs scrobbling at the moment. Things have picked up in the wake of redhalo's tenure; loads of attention, a slew of new friends and -- quite obviously -- users.

Current stats are as follows. Tracks per day is sitting at 95 (there was a huge bump in stats with redhalo's turn at the wheel and it has been holding steady). Top artists overall as of June 3, 2007 (Weekly Top Artists were not available)...

Ween, The Legendary Pink Dots, Modest Mouse, The Tear Garden, radio trailer, Edward Ka-Spel, Inuit vocalists, Radiohead, Anton Webern, Ami Yoshida, Spoon, Gene Ween, The Gun Club, The Beatles, Bob L. Sturm, Belle and Sebastian, Throbbing Gristle, György Ligeti, Operation Ivy, Naked City, Daphne Oram, Old 97's, Nina Simone, Tod Dockstader, NPR, Cat Power, Wire, Low, Leoš Janáček, The Cure, Darius Milhaud, The Fall, François de Roubaix, Andrew Bird, David Bowie, PJ Harvey, György Kurtág, Calexico, Gerhard Rühm, The Postal Service, The Go-Betweens, Built to Spill, The Shins, Lubos Fiser, Lily Allen, The Smiths, The White Stripes, The Kinks, Counting Crows, The Dandy Warhols...

Logged into and sorted through the bulk of messages at gheemail. Wrote up a number of filters and labels to catagorize and sort content; hope this helps. That done, I logged back into IAEs last.fm and calculated IAEs mainstream percentile. The Mainstream-O-Meter calculates one's mainstream-ness by comparing the listener count of IAEs favorite bands to the average listener count of the five bands who have the most listeners among Last.fm-users. IAE currently sits at 14.90% of mainstream.

Also, added an AEP link in IAEs last.fm sidebar (it appears just under the Journals entry). AEP is a measure of how diverse one's music tastes are, based on the top 50 artists in one's Last.fm profile. AEP is a number, usually below 5. Roughly speaking, if it is greater than 4 you have very diverse taste in music, if it greater than 3 then you have fairly diverse taste in music. At the other end of the scale, if it is less that 0, you are probably an obsessive fan of your top artist. As of this posting, IAEs AEP stood at 0.85 (it will be interesting to watch how the profile changes over the coming weeks and months.

Wrote up this post and logged out of iameveryone's everything. Out to enjoy the first sunny day in a week!

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.