95

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!

2.79

One month in and I'm averaging 67 tracks a day. Yippee! That's 2.79 tracks an hour! This evening marked the playing of track number 2,000... you guessed it, a Radiohead tune. Track number 1,000 by the way, was a Lily Allen tune.

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.

the greatest gift

From:[a last.fm user]
Subject: Hi
Date: 16 Apr 2007, 17:55
I'm sorry, bot there is no ultimate listener, there will never be! And there is no need for such one. It's the greatest gift that we all can call us individuals. that's what makes EVERY PERSON interesting.
Sorry, I can't join you.
greetings

it's my hat

From: [a last.fm user]
Subject: Friend's request
Date: 14 Apr 2007, 19:43
Hi,

Don't know how you found me... ?
I don't have any french... and you are not really in my neighboor ;)

I think it's my hat on my pic... am i right ? Every girls likes the hat ;)

april 23, 2007

I got a package today that I ordered from a company more than 18 months ago. It was delivered recently to my former office, and passed on to me by a former colleague/friend. I was confused at first, I have ordered from that company recently and everything was delivered to the proper address. When I opened the package, it all became clear ... one of the items was a limited edition item made to benefit the victims of hurricane Katrina. I remember ordering it shortly after the tragedy, and calling the company months later because the package never arrived. The other item is something that I have since reordered because I really wanted it. At the time, the company refunded me for my purchases, but assured me that the money for the victims had already been donated to the charity, so they were the ones taking the hit. This act helped make me a loyal customer.

I studied the package closer ... sure enough, the postmark was for September 12, 2005. The funny thing is, the package was in PRISTINE condition and looked like it had been put in the mail yesterday. I can't help but wonder where it has been hanging out all this time.

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.