{"id":149,"date":"2004-04-16T16:18:23","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T16:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=149"},"modified":"2004-04-16T16:18:23","modified_gmt":"2004-04-16T16:18:23","slug":"108214670346553573","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"108214670346553573"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>In the fat part of the curve<\/b><\/p>\n<p>So, I thought I was having a big revelation, all by myself, when I discovered the pleasures of Random Shuffle on my iPod. How silly of me to think my experience is unique.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/culture\/0,1284,63068,00.html\">Wired<\/a> pops my bubble:<\/p>\n<ul>Napster revolutionized music distribution, but massive libraries of digital music and capacious players like the iPod are upending listening habits through something very simple but profound: random shuffle. <\/p>\n<p>When music lovers first discover the iPod, or software like Winamp or iTunes, they often rhapsodize about the joys of randomly shuffling tracks.<br \/>\n\"I have seen the future, and it is called Shuffle,\" writes Alex Ross, the New Yorker's music critic, who seems to have recently acquired an iPod. <\/p>\n<p>Stuffy old listening habits -- like listening to albums from beginning to end -- are being thrown out in favor of allowing machines to choose songs at random, which often leads to unexpected, and magical, juxtapositions of music. <\/ul>\n<p>Then, this guy comes along to kick me when I'm down:<\/p>\n<ul>James Kellaris, a professor of marketing at the University of Cincinnati and author of a study about tunes that stick in your head, said the appeal of random shuffle is likely generational. <\/p>\n<p>Kellaris said random shuffle likely appeals to the MTV generation -- kids with short attention spans who are likely \"brain damaged.\" <\/ul>\n<p>Oh great. Like I needed to hear <i>that<\/i> the same week I hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,8122-1076835,00.html\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>People who drink the equivalent of three large glasses of wine a night can suffer brain damage similar to that seen in chronic alcoholics, research suggests. <\/p>\n<p>Scientists found that people who consumed more than 100 drinks a month \u00e2\u20ac\u201d around 130 units \u00e2\u20ac\u201d suffered from loss of memory, reduced intelligence, poor balance and impaired mental agility. <\/ul>\n<p>While not getting too personal, let's just say I'm within striking distance of that 100\/month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the fat part of the curve So, I thought I was having a big revelation, all by myself, when I discovered the pleasures of Random Shuffle on my iPod. How silly of me to think my experience is unique. Wired pops my bubble: Napster revolutionized music distribution, but massive libraries of digital music and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}