Pandora is basically an internet radio station, but it is customized to your specific personalized tastes.  It is run off of the database created from the Music Genome Project.

All you have to do is just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and let the Genome Project go to work.  

It will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings - new and old, well known and completely obscure - to find songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice.  Then sit back and enjoy as it creates a listening experience full of current and soon-to-be favorite songs for you.  

I did a test and created two stations.  One in English and one in Spanish.  The english language band that I put in was Hootie and the Blowfish.  In the 30 minutes that I listened to that station, I heard a couple of songs by Hootie, Counting Crows, Jack Johnson, Gin Blossoms, & Del Amitri.  

For the spanish language group, I put in RBD.  I heard some great music from RBD, Juanes, Shakira, Mana, & Laura Pausini.  In both examples, Pandora matched my personal preferences perfectly with similar music, some of which I hadn't even heard before.

What's even cooler is that once you set up an account on your computer, you can stream the stations on your iPhone.  It's like having an iPod with millions of songs preloaded that will shuffle exactly to your music tastes and preferences.

Oh yeah, here's the best part .... Pandora is FREE!!!!

Now stop reading this and go set up your Pandora account now.

A dream a few years ago... and now we are nearer than we think.

Just found this Mediaweek article:

"Internet radio upstart Pandora has streamed 3.3 million songs to iPhone users since the launch of its new mobile application, making it the third most popular such app for the red-hot device"

Using a data flat rate on the iPhone and you can enjoy all the big music streaming platforms (not just Pandora, Last.Fm works already too - see the userinterface in the pic) for free...

Well not yet everybody has an "iPhone level device" in his pocket... but soon.

Honestly, the whole Kazaa and ripping CDs and illegal downloads thing just baffles me. I don't even wanna know.

But Pandora has music coming out my computer speakers for the first time in -- well, ever. Today, it's playing stations dedicated to my boys Earth, Wind and Fire, my Beach Boys and my Five for Fighting. Ahhhh. What a wonderful world. Hey! I think I hear Louis calling!

Click that Comments link below and bring me into the 21st century. I'm embarrassing my kids. What tunes should I really be listening to?

PLW's Pandora Station of the Day!

While on the iTunes applications site I came across the Pandora application. I'm a big fan of Pandora as you can read in a previous post here. I have spent some time setting up stations so I can listen to them through my G5 Mac as well as on my Sonos music system. The Pandora iTunes application is seamlessly integrated with your web settings, and allows you to log in and gain access to all the stations you have set up through your computer. So now I can access the Music Genome Project where ever I go. Love it. The Pandora application is free. Get it, use it. It rules.

PLW's Pandora Station of the Day!

PLW's Pandora Station of the Day!

I kid you not, I have a whole new device after the software update... And I think I'm addicted...

A couple cool things:

Games - There are a number of games fro the iPhone now ranging from basic solitaire all the way up to Super Monkey Ball where you tilt  the iPhone to make the ball move.  It's incredible.  I have a basic flying game where you tilt the iPhone to steer the plane.  Very cool stuff.  And we're just barely tapping the real potential of this thing.

Music - In addition to being an iPod too, the iPhone now can stream music.  There are a couple neat applications that work really well.  On the basic end is AOL Radio.  It's really just some stations that stream their content over the internet an d you can listen in.  Getting a little more advanced is Last.fm and Pandora.  These 2 work off of peoples tastes in music, but they're unique in a couple different ways.

Pandora works by entering artists into your main account online and it will play music that fits into the same "genome". See Pandora.com for more info - it's really a great service - and free!

Last.FM works by entering artists and it'll play what other Last.FM members also liked that like who you picked... Yeah... Confusing. Last.FM for more details.

Either way, both these free services are great on your computer or laptop at home or at work.  The fact that they now work on the iPhone and can be accessed and listed to anywhere in the world is phenomenal!

Other Apps - a couple notable free apps from the AppStore are:

PhoneSaber - A light saber for your iPhone - sounds and everything!

YouVersion Bible - A bible with 15 translations and user submitted notes and pictures

Shazam - this is a new favorite.  You open the app, hit "tag" and hold the iPhone up to a speaker playing a song (from the radio, cd, whatever).  This app will tell you the artist, song, album, give you a link to buy it from iTunes, and find YouTube video's of the artist.  I was floored.

At $199 + appx $80 a month in service charges, the new 3G iPhone isn't for the working poor, but if you're in the market for a new phone/iPod, look at the iPhone.  The device is amazing and will only get better from here on out.

So this post comes to you in many parts. Just how many, I'm not sure. We will find out as we go.

Part One: Vacation

I had a lot of fun. The first day I saw some Red Sox own some Twins. It was really a lot more fun than I originally anticipated, but I think it's just the attitude that I went into it with (which was excitement).

Walden Pond was incredibly beautiful. I took a lot of pictures (on the Facebook, if you wanted to see them) and they're all extremely pretty. Also, we went on Thoreau's birthday! I didn't know it was his birthday until I read it on the little pamphlet I got from the beginning of the trails.

Part Two: Writing

So recently I read a thing from my brother about why he writes, and I thought I would enlighten you to the reasons why I write.

I. I feel like it's the only thing I'm really good at. Please, spare me your comments about how talented I am. I know I'm good at a lot of things, but writing is the only thing that I feel right doing. I've played music for years, but I've never felt like a musician. To be a musician, I feel, one needs to be a bit more involved than I am. It's a hobby. Writing, is more of a...passion is such a cliche word, but that's what I'll use.

II. Manipulation. I'm sorry, but this one's a bit blunt. I like to manipulate people, and I'm good at it. Writing is, like, this ultimate manipulation of people's emotions, thoughts, etc.

III. I already narrate my life in my head* so this seemed appropriate.

So that's done! ONTO THE NEXT PART!

Part Three: Books!

I read my 52nd book of the year today. It was one of those books you didn't really good, but I really liked it. It's called Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and it was written in tandem by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn. Levithan would write a chapter in Nick's point of view, and Cohn would respond with a chapter from Norah's point of view. Apparently nothing was planned, and they just played the entire book by ear (no pun intended). Anyway, it was a really funny book and I recommend it.

Yesterday, I tried to rekindle my love for the Maximum Ride series with fanfiction. It only managed to waste an entire day. When the fanfiction is better than the actual books, you have a problem. *sigh* Boy did they tank. I read the summary for the fifth book, and it has managed to sound even worse than the fourth one.

I may be unconsciously rereading the Harry Potter series again. I saw unconsciously because I didn't even plan on reading the first one on the way to Massachusettes, but I read it all in one sitting. There was something very nice about reading something that's so familiar to you.

Part Four: Willie the Westie.

John Green's puppy is so adorable. That's all for this part.

Part Five: Music

Recently, I got a new notebook, and the first page is almost completely filled with a list I started today titled "Artists to Steal From". This is simply a list of artists whose music I will be illegally downloading. Perhaps not, maybe someone will be kind enough to buy me a CD/lend me a CD so I can put it on the computer, but at the moment, the Laura Needs A Ukulele Fund cannot be tapped into. So I must resort to the Internet. Such is the life of a broke fifteen year old.**

It doesn't really take much to be on the list. If I think you're band has a cool name, or I like one song by you, you'll be put on the list. So take a look, and recommend something to me if you get the urge to. Please do not recommend Fall Out Boy to me. There is already a place in the fiery depths of my hatred for them.***

In related news, Pandora is the greatest thing on Earth. Seriously, I found The Postal Service with this thing, and they're fracking awesome. Hoorah for Pandora!

So I think that's it. If I haven't responded to your messages on Facebook, it's because I'm working on it. Be calm.

I hope you enjoyed this. Have a good day.

-Laura

PS- For all you band nerds out there, BAND CAMP starts in three weeks. Just thought you ought to know.

PPS- To the rest of my friends, school starts in forty-four days. Yes, I'm counting down. Summer is terribly boring, sorry.

*and I have for as long as I can remember. Does anyone else do this, or am I some anomoly?

**Not completely broke. I did find fifteen dollars in a pants pocket the other day. I have no idea where it came from, but it's mine. So if you're missing fifteen dollars, congratulations! You've donated to a worth cause.

***Okay, I admit that I like maybe two songs by them (OH FUN! GUESS WHAT THEY ARE!) but their songs are pretty much the same thing repeated forty odd times. Sorry, but I'm not a huge fan.

Starting July 1, Last.FM (or rather, CBS, I should say) will have an Artist Royalty Program, where artists get paid whenever their music is streamed from the site. The most important thing is that this program is intended for and marketed to unsigned/DIY artists, as Last.fm already pays royalties to signed acts via SoundExchange. According to Last.Fm: "This is a big day for DIY artists. We’re leveling the playing field by offering them the same opportunities as established bands to make money from their music. The young musician making music in a bedroom studio has the same chance as the latest major label signing to use Last.fm to build an audience and get rewarded."

Here's how royalties will be paid:

• If your track is played on their free radio service you will accrue a 10% of the share of Last.fm's net revenue from the free radio service.
• If your track is played on their personalized premium radio service, you will accrue the greater of either 10% of the Share of Last.fm’s Net Revenue from the personalized radio service, or US $0.0005 for each complete transmission on the personalized radio service.
• If your track is played on their free on-demand service, you will accrue 30% of the Share of Last.fm’s Net Revenue from the on-demand radio service.
• If your track is played on their premium on-demand service, you will accrue the greater of either 30% of the Share of Last.fm’s Net Revenue from the premium on-demand service, or US $0.005 for each complete transmission on the prepaid or subscription on-demand service.

While the royalties to be paid aren't much, they're a good start, demonstrating the larger issue of finding ways for DIYers to profit form their works. Since most people have their music on several (if not all) music discovery sites, hopefully other sites will follow suit (myspace, are you listening?). Imeem implemented a rev share program last year, but it has failed to produce any real revenue for unsigned musicians. With these moves, however, Last.fm has elevated itself past the clutter of music discovery sites, to become a premiere destination for on-demand music discovery. While I personally prefer music recommendation sites like Pandora, after I discover an artist on Pandora, I want to hear more tracks, see more content, and learn more about the artist. That's where sites like myspace, last.fm, and ilike come in. And while music recommendation sites would be crippled by paying royalties, sites like myspace and last.fm should do so.

Unfortunately, neither Last.Fm nor Imeem is the answer. Rather, they are both part of a solution that will require DIY musicians to aggregate many sources of revenue in order to make some money. But, there are not many of these sources currently available. A lot of DIY musicians have been distributing under Creative Commons ("CC") for the last 7 years, but nobody has figured out exactly how to monetize CC works. You would think that the collective strength of CC music could be leveraged to make some money for the artists, but this hasn't happened. The only caveat to this is Magnatune. For this reason, CC has proven to be a valuable alternative to copyright law for reference and informational works, but not for works of art.

So what other profit mechanisms are there for unsigned musicians? There are a ton of iTunes style sites where people can purchase MP3s, but lets face it, most people aren't buying tracks from us DIY guys. Certainly sites like PumpAudio, YouLicense, and AudioMicro have helped, but the go-to-profit mechanism has yet to be unveiled. Stay tuned!

Matoba Shinichi, a detective with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigation Division, encounters a man called Suzuki Hideki and gets an odd impression while visiting the quay of Tokyo Bay to investigate a murder case.

Suzuki is an eccentric person who has been pursuing the study of a miracle drug for cancer at a university hospital for 18 years. And finally on that day, Suzuki succeeds in the complete elimination of artificial cancer stem cells. But his colleague, Sayoko, won't work with him and his boss, Otaguro Shigeyuki, also won't approve his clinical trial on human bodies.

At that moment, Matoba discovers a receipt from the corpse of a middle-aged company employee, and visits a love hotel. Over there, he comes into contact with Aimi, a young girl who seems a regular at compensated dating, but she sees an opportunity and runs away from him.

Meanwhile, a bewildered Suzuki finds Aimi asleep inside his car at the hospital's carpark. Hearing that Aimi's days are numbered because of cancer, a dangerous thought comes to Suzuki's mind ...

Ep 1 Trailer Link: http://www.wowow.co.jp/dramaw/pandora/asx/dramaw_pandora_sisha_500k.asx

All text copyright © jdramas.wordpress.com.

I got an Ipod Touch for Christmas and use it all the time for music, movies, email, etc.  I geeked out and upgraded to the new version of software as soon it was available this weekend.  I downloaded a bunch of apps.

Most are neat, somehwat useful, but also somewhat unnecessary.  As I searched for new ones, I came across an app for Pandora.

Pandora is an internet radio site.  Doesn't sound too exciting until you dig a little deeper.  You can set up 100 "stations."  Each station could be set up for a particular artist or song.  For example, the first one I set up was a Joe Purdy station.

Pandora has a small army of trained musicians that categorize pretty much any song you can imagine.  Then, Pandora matches similar artist or songs to the one you chose on the station.  I have discovered 4 or 5 new musicians just listening to my Joe Purdy station. 

I was skeptical that they could match other musicians with the ones that I chose.  I thought it would be somewhat similar sounds, but none I would probably like that much.  Couldn't have been more incorrect.  On just the Joe Purdy station, I was introduced to Timmy Curran, Keb' Mo', and  Damien Rice.

You can listen to it through the Pandora website, or you can listen through your Iphone or Ipod Touch.  So, anywhere you get a cell signal or a wifi signal, you can listen to music.  I am constantly searching for new music and this is the perfect way to find new artists and listen to them anywhere I choose.

The bonus for me is that I can use it to help me find music that my kids and I can agree on.  I can only listen to "Daddy's Taking us to the Zoo Tomorrow" so many times.  We have been able to find "grown up" songs that they like and use Pandora to discover more.  Got to love geeky ways to compromise with your kids.

Twitterrific is a twitter client for the iPhone.  I had used the Twitter web app before, and it got the job done.  Twitterrific not only gets the job done, but it looks good, is well-implemented, and adds lots of new options for mobile tweets, including automatically adding photos from the camera to twitpic when you select a photo for a tweet.  If you have an iPhone 3G, you can even geotag your tweets.

Pandora has been a popular internet radio service for a while, where you create stations from songs and artists that you like.  Pandora plays music similar to & including what you listed.  With this service on the iPhone, you basically have an infinite number of songs available for your listening pleasure.

Vay is the first RPG to show up on the iPhone.  It was originally released for Sega CD in 1994 so it is a great way to get your 90's Japanese RPG fix in wherever you are.  It's the first app I've actually paid for ($4.99) after Ben posted a tweet about it.  The controls work well and the battle graphics have been slightly ramped up.  Plus, thanks to my penchant for compulsively leveling up, I should be able to get nearly infinite game play out of this.

[Edit] To clarify: this game is really fun and addicting.  If you like RPGs I recommend Vay.

Finally, Aurora Feint (The Beginning), is an addictive puzzle game that makes great use of the accelerometer for changing the puzzles' orientation to gravity.  You can level up to gain new abilities and make it easier to gather resources.  Given that this app was made in a pretty short period of time, I expect that subesquent chapters of this iPhone only MMO will be something to watch out for.

Recent reports show that Pandora has streamed 3.3 million songs to iPhone users since the launch of its new mobile application.  That’s a lot of peeps in a short span of time. Since the new iPhone came out Pandora has registered 180K new users and around 200K new stations have been created on the iPhone alone!  Hey again, that’s a lot of peeps.  These figures coupled with the continuing robust sales of iPods and their kind means there are a lot of people out there who just by the variety of technology choices aren’t listening to the radio as much… or at all.

Daunting, yes indeed.  But I am perplexed but the multiplicity of radio stations that are trying to emulate facets of the iPod hardware and Pandora (music genome) models. 

How about these radio offerings:

All request lunch

You Choose Weekends

Radio Impulse

Station WXYZ on shuffle

Stop it…  You’re only a cheap façade of what’s going on in the narrowcast pull technology world.  You are a broadcaster, a purveyor of push technology.  You can’t narrow cast.  Well, you could if you bought one transmitter and tower and got a frequency position for every one person who Cumes your station.  That’s ridiculous. You’d have a field of transmitter towers that would run for miles.   That’s perfectly good land that could be used for a shopping mall or golf course.  (Oh, I just kill me... and only me)

Again, you're a broadcaster!  Slow, clumsy on-air social network programs pale in comparison to one of a 1000 on-line social networks.  All request shows may at best make you temporarily more diverse (if you let it) but in the end each request played (real or fake) only momentarily satiates that one listener until the next selection doesn’t.

Stop it Stop It Stop it!  Again, you are a broadcaster.  You can’t narrow cast to each individual in the cume.  Stop trying to be a tool that you’re not! 

You don’t bang nails with a screwdriver, you don’t sweep floors with a dump truck and don’t snorkel with a vacuum cleaner strapped to your back.

As a broadcaster what you do do, can do, should do and must do is entertain.  You can’t play the exact right song that one person needs but you can present the music you’ve chosen with meaning, stories, feelings, shared emotions and purpose.

Examples of the top of my head:

“I picked out this track from Coldplay right now because I was in the car with my wife last night and this song came on WXYZ and she started singing along.  As she sang the words I fell in love with her all over again”

Somebody help me!  So I’m in the shower and I started singing, ”I can ride my bike with no handle bar, no handle bars…”that was three days ago and I can’t stop.  Oh God here it is again on WXYZ.

“Is it just me?  When I play I Will Posses Your Heart by Death Cab for Cuite… images of Silence of the Lambs and Texas Chain Saw Massacre engulf my cranium.  That’s not just me… right?”

 “I downloaded it from iTunes and now all twelve tracks are the soundtrack to anything I’m doing…”

“Trent Reznor seems incessantly mad and sad no matter what he’s singing…”

“If you buy the Silversun Pickups CD or download the tracks and you don’t think it’s the best album of songs ever recorded by human beings with opposable thumbs… I will eat this radio station.”

I could come up with 10,000 more but you get the idea.  Yeah, that’s right… sharing ideas, visions, feelings, moments of elation, distraction or the painted veil of sadness, etc., etc...

These are the things that the broadcaster can do that Pandora or your iPod cannot.  Music delivered with meaning is so powerful that it can take over the mind.  If we’re talking the battle for mind share then I can’t think of anything more important than finding entertainers who can engage a listener.  As they used to say, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."  That's true now more than ever.

Apparently Pandora's music overrides the sound of the alarm clock. The onscreen alarm triggers but no alarm clock sound. So, FYI, don't fall asleep with it running if you intend to make to work on time.

The iPhone once again rears its sleek little head now that the craziness following the 3G's release seems to have abated. Despite the iPocalypse on its release, the newest of the Apple family is already making waves. As with the Internet, those waves are based more on the applications it runs than the hardware itself.

Technology consultant for CBS Larry Magrid gives us a terrific review of the three main iPhone radio applications including a podcast recording of listening to New York- and Jamaica-based stations on it while driving around Silicon Valley.

With San Jose Mercury News technology reporter Troy Wolverton at the wheel, I plugged the iPhone into the auxiliary jack of his car radio while we drove around the San Jose, Calif. area listening to WCBS Newsradio from New York, a radio station from Kingston, Jamaica and a customized channel through Pandora.

Even at 66 miles an hour on U.S. Highway 101, the sound was better than what you'd expect from a clear FM signal. I also tuned into my local KCBS news station where the sound quality was definitely better than the station's terrestrial AM signal.

As is frequently the case, and as I stated at the outset, it is usually the applications that are of primary importance in cases like this. Having already determined the sound quality the cost and efficiency of the programs is the next thing t look at:

There are at least three "live radio" software applications available, not only for the new iPhone, but for the older iPhone and the iPod Touch that have been updated with Apple's new 2.0 software (free for iPhone users and $10 for iPod Touch users). Two of the programs: AOL Radio and Pandora are free while Tuner costs $4.99.

AOL Radio "Powered by CBS Radio" allows you to listen to more than 150 CBS music, news, talk and sports stations across the United States, as well as customized stations created specifically for online listening. By default, it uses the iPhone or iPod Touch's location awareness capabilities to play stations in your area, but you can also use it for out-of-town stations.

Pandora doesn't carry broadcast stations but allows users to create their own music programming by selecting their favorite artists or genres. It's a very creative concept that can result in programming that is highly customized yet, unlike listening to your own MP3 files, still gives you the serendipity of not knowing which song will come next.

The other program, called Tuner, lets you select from thousands of Internet stations around world or type in the URL of any station that may not be included in its rather exhaustive list.

Now we seem to be heading towards those massive evolutionary leaps I have been predicting for a while now. One of radio's biggest strengths has always been ubiquity of access to its content. In the age of the iPhone it would seem that reach is magnified.

Phto courtesy of spcoon, used under its Creative Commons license

Suzuki Hideki ( 41 ) ... Mikami Hiroshi
A physician at Koto University Hospital.
He has devoted himself to the study of an anti-cancer drug for 18 years.
He is divorced from his wife and is viewed as an eccentric at his workplace.
His mother's death from illness 30 years ago gave him impetus.
He risks his life to make the miracle drug he has invented available to the world but ...

Matoba Shinichi ( 42 ) ... Yanagiba Toshiro
A police detective with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's First Investigative Division.
He conducts investigations in a human and methodical way.
He has a friendly personality but is a cool-headed observer, able to imagine the age and occupation of dead people from the jacket and shoes worn.
His chance encounter with Suzuki leaves him with an inexplicable feeling of discomfort.

Iida Sayoko ( 28 ) ... Konishi Manami
A surgeon at Koto University Hospital.
She deems this her calling and has many surgeries under her belt. Capable and candid, she skillfully uses her feminine wiles to make her way in the world.
When she learns that Suzuki's discovery is genuine, she kindly offers him all sorts of assistance.
But does she have any designs behind this ...?

Otaguro Shigeyuki ( 52 ) ... Kunimura Jun
Head of Koto University Hospital's Medical Science Department.
He is greatly ambitious and desires to win the favour of the Health Minister Fukami.
He is interest in his subordinate, Sayako.
He initially doesn't believe Suzuki's discovery and treats it lightly but when he learns that it is genuine, he employs high-handed measures to lay his hands on the achievement.

Fukami Jinichiro ( 55 ) ... Ono Takehiko
Health and Labour Minister.
He introduces a humane policy for victims suffering from the harmful side effects of a drug but this is actually a problem caused by his predecessor.
He leaves everything to his secretary and has no sense of responsibility.
In order to escape society's criticism, he has himself hospitalised at Koto University Hospital.

Mizuno Aimi ( 17 ) ... Tanimura Mitsuki
Suzuki's clinical trial patient.
She extorts money from adults under the guise of compensated dating.
Her childhood cancer has recently recurred and she doesn't have much time left.
She was hospitalised at Koto University hospital but she runs away from the hospital when her mother gets a man and disappears.

Tomoda Shogo ( 50 ) ... Hirata Mitsuru
Chairman of Houei Hospital.
He is also the president of Houei Pharmaceuticals, the parent company.
Because of Sayoko's part-time outpatient work at his hospital, he takes an ignorant Suzuki and Aimi in.
He is friendly but senses the secrecy in Suzuki's research.

Tachikawa Haruo ( 34 ) ... Yamamoto Koji
A medical science journalist with Maichou Newspaper.
He follows modern medical treatment but is particularly suited for work that does not involve a sense of justice. Haruo gets dragged into the matter by his girlfriend, Sayoko.
He worries about the new drug Suzuki has invented and is the narrator of this story.

All text copyright © jdramas.wordpress.com.

Broadcast
Date: Every Sunday from 6 April ~ 11 June 2008
Time: 10.00 pm - 11.00 pm

Official Website
http://www.wowow.co.jp/dramaw/pandora/

Introduction
A miracle drug for cancer has been found …
This discovery, mankind's long-cherished desire, is at the same time, also the beginning of the story of human beings' display of their horrendous true nature.
Pandora is the first drama series produced by WOWOW.
In it are challenges, conflicts, and manifestation of desires unprecedented in the history of TV dramas.
This drama, which was made possible by Shiroi Kyoto's Inoue Yumiko, starts now.

Story
Suzuki Hideki, a university hospital physician, invents a wonder drug for cancer after 18 years of research. At first, everyone gives him the cold shoulder but when they learn that that is a genuine invention, the dean of the medical school and his colleagues attempt to seize his achievement. Furthermore, pharmaceutical companies that have gotten wind of this concession, come sidling up. That is the dawn of the shocking, terrifying vortex of human relations.

Cast
Mikami Hiroshi as Suzuki Hideki
Yanagiba Toshiro as Matoba Shinichi
Konishi Manami as Iida Sayoko
Hirata Mitsuru as Tomoda Shogo
Yamamoto Koji as Tachikawa Haruo
Tanimura Mitsuki as Mizuno Aimi
Ono Takehiko as Fukami Jinichiro
Kunimura Jun as Otaguro Shigeyuki
Yamamoto Kei as Midorikawa Fujio
Uehara Misa as Kadowaki Chika
Kichise Michiko as Katsura Hitomi
Aijima Kazuyuki as Numabe Yoshihiro

All text copyright © jdramas.wordpress.com.

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• Bug fixes
• Neue Menü Oberfläche
• Timemachine IPL kann geschrieben werden
• Dark Alex´s neuste Version von Despertar del Cementerio (v5) kann auf dem Memory Stick installiert werden
• Man kann mit Hellcats die Datei ressurection.elf ändern so das das ELF Menü anstatt Dcv5 geladen werden kann
• Die Eboot´s der Firmwares wird vor dem Start überprüft und man wird gewarnt wenn etwas fehlen sollte

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*Songs: Bodies of Water records a Daytrotter session.

*Transportation: Pandora does up a video of the John Lennon Bus, which teaches school kids about songwriting and music production.

*Hacks: If you even know what a PSP-based homebrew sequencer app is, you will undoubtedly love PSPSeq. Look, I just type this shit, ok?

*Ghostbloggers: Kanye does NOT have one. A short list of people who are definitely NOT Kanye's ghost blogger (because he doesn't have one) includes: Marcus Troy. (Also: I am not Kanye's ghost blogger. Hello? I CAN DO CAPS.)

*Local: Muzzle of Bees does 5 Questions with Twin Cities songstress and Dunn Brothers barista Haley Bonar: "Blogs are weird to me, I haven’t tapped into that scene yet, but I appreciate that they’re there."

*Arrests: Steven Page of the Barenaked Ladies has been arrested for coke possession. [absolute punk]

*Off topic: Andy Dick has been arrested for being a drunken asshole at a Buffalo Wild Wings.

*Local: Listenerd-endorsed Minneapolis music blogger SWITCHBLADE COMB will be appearing on Drinking with Ian on Friday. Maybe you should go.

*NO LINKS: I do not feel like writing about or linking to Hayden Panettiere's new single, Scarlett Johansson's covers of The Cure or Britney Spears' prospective new material. I'm sorry if I've failed you.

Techcrunch reported that Pandora is currently the fourth most popular free app on iTunes (behind Apple’s Remote, AIM, and WeatherBug), and has reportedly been seeing a new listener every 2 seconds. Usage over the weekend hit an all-time high for the service, with 3.3 million tracks streamed to iPhone listeners alone. Perhaps more impressive is the retention rate of listeners, who are averaging over an hour of listening per day.

The Pandora music stream is great on the new iPhones with the 3G and Edge networks.  Between the iPhone and Sonos Digital Music System, music lovers are no longer tied to their computer to enjoy the benefits of Pandora's personalized music recommendation service.  Rock on.

Two of the aforementioned businesses led me to Ad Surf Daily (ASD). After spending a few weeks building this blog, a MySpace page and tweaking previous social networking pages in places like YouTube, Gather, Yuwie, Helloworld, Metacafe, StartXchange, Reunion, TubeMogul and Pandora.com to name a few, I was still only feeling a few ripples while prospecting. The most wave action seemed to be concentrated on my YouTube site; then my camcorder became about as dependable as my first car, a 1972 Chevy Vega. Just when I was mulling over what new camcorder I should buy, my FOCS team leader told us about ASD.

Joining ASD has been a wild ride so far. What attracted me to it was its potential for supersizing my traffic at my FOCS website. It turns out that ASD also presents a pretty potent income stream of its own. I think of it as an online billboard advertising company. Growing up in a state where billboards were once extremely widespread (and very profitable for their owners), it seems that the internet could be a natural draw for advertisers like me. I wanted to move my FOCS broadcast page out of its back alley hideaway and place it alongside the biggest interstate I could find. And that's what ASD provides.

From what I've experienced in the couple of weeks since I joined for free, ASD is a pretty heavily traveled site. Tens of thousands of people have been joining ASD, and the volume is so massive that the company had to shut down their site this week to give it a complete overhaul and add bandwidth to handle to insane amounts of traffic it generates. Besides getting an income from the people who visit my site from my own ad placements in their traffic rotator, the company is adding multiple income streams for products like domain names and a shopping mall called Greenback Street. All these additional income streams make the site even more valuable to its current and future members. I even heard from one of my FOCS associates today that they were considering the acquisition of a bank and starting their own credit card, a pretty edgy business proposition in an era when banks like Indymac are being crushed by the subprime mortgage mess.

One part of the world that I'm very excited about gaining exposure for my brand(s) and enhancing my ASD income potential is China. Just last night I learned that ASD is opening a new website called Golden Panda Ad Builder that specializes in monetizing the Chinese market. I wasted little time in signing up for my free account there, and more than 4,000 had already done the same thing earlier in the day. I really think that this site is going to earn an income of Olympic proportions for people who join early and take advantage of the site's earnings potential.

I know that there are a lot of naysayers who are going to kvetch about ASD. One thing the internet seems to overflow with are people who write disparaging things about ASD and many other internet-based  or home-based businesses and drop the 'S' bomb on them: scams. It's like somebody walking into a Wal-Mart and telling shoppers that a particular brand of soft drink is horrible compared to another brand, and then they leave you a flyer that tells you to go to their market and support their brand. Just about every work at home or home-based business blog and forum I read has somebody complaining about XYZ company and then posting their preferred business at the end of the post. I've sometimes thought about stooping to those tactics to attract people to my online businesses, but I believe that there are more ethical ways to build credibility.

My team's already started earning serious income in the past month with ASD, and I expect that this is only the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship with the company. It hasn't always been smooth sailing with them for me, as I have had some login problems at their Florida site that kept me from surfing there for several days. I'm confident that this problem and their U.S. website's temporary hiatus  will only be temporary distractions.

I'd highly recommend that serious internet marketing enthusiasts navigate over to ASD's website and take advantage of their income potential while their introductory offers still provide a massive earnings potential. Catch that wave and surf for some serious cash.

I love the way there is info on the bottom on the artist, the song, the album.  I was reading something just the other day about the verve which was pretty interesting.

Best of all -- it's free & they have britpop. Awesome britpop

*Videogames: Guns 'n Roses is putting one of the tunes from the forthcoming Chinese Democracy, "Shackler's Revenge," on Rock Band 2. [daily swarm] I want my free Dr. Pepper.

*Money: For rockers, the money isn't in the album, it's in the old crap. (Rock memorabilia prices surge.) [pop candy]

*Localish: Pitchfork gives The Hold Steady's Stay Positive an 8.4. I didn't even know they were still doing these score things!

*Food: Make your own guitar lunchbox. Or lunchbox guitar.

*Speakers: Who doesn't want stereo system components shaped like nuts? Peanuts, people. Peanuts.

*Wisdom: Esquire's What I've Learned column by Snoop Dogg. Esquire needs help with their web strategy. They also need a music blogger. I'm just saying.

*Off topic: Apparently, the city in which I attended high school is the best place to live in the country. If that's the case, though, why am I so bald?