To confirm what should be readily apparent: I am no longer maintaining this site regularly!
The purpose of the site was to promote the book of the same name. Over the two and a half years for which it was active (rather longer than the publisher's promotional effort), I blogged issues that extended, elaborated, moderated and reviewed what the book covers. Recently, though I've had a list of things I could have written here, I've obviously run out of steam a bit.
However, I'm still going to be writing a fair bit about issues that riff off the discovery themes of Net, Blogs and Rock 'n' Roll. In particular I'm interested in strategies for enjoying, and learning from, the cultural abundance (surplus?) of life online. I'm not quite sure what the best outlet for this writing is going to be, but I don't think it will be this blog. Follow me on my main site or RSS feed if you'd like to keep up with this. (And, in the meantime, I may occasionally cross post pieces here, if they feel connected to the book.)

I get a fair number of people approaching me to tell me that their music recommender system is the best because of [insert special secret sauce here]. Usually this doesn't go much further: after all, the sauce is secret and can't be shared; so I say I'll be interested to keep in touch with their progress, and I bite my lip to resist repeating my sceptical view that any recommender system only has to be
All through last week the smart people at BBC Radio Labs published a series of research summaries under the heading "
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