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Type in the name of your favorite band, and within moments the site will be streaming a radio station, featuring songs from that band and similar ones, to your desktop through your browser--no registration and no downloads required. You can fine-tune the playlist by using the thumbs-up and thumbs-down buttons. It's a nifty way of discovering new artists who sort of sound like the bands you already like, and of becoming a font of music knowledge at parties. A new Backstage section is a searchable directory of artists and albums--"your door to the music...
...When you drop the pebble into your shoe and connect the wireless receiver to the nano, a Nike + iPod menu item appears. Click it, then select a distance or time for your workout. Select your music, a particular playlist or the iPod's "Shuffle Songs" feature. You are immediately prompted by a female voice to begin your run, and then the music adjusts to the right volume. The voice returns calling out your performance, at every 10-minute interval for instance, or every time you hit the nano's center button. As she speaks, the music falls to the background...
...founding editors of Wired magazine. But while Updike conveyed Kelly's premise with conviction, he had no intention of celebrating it: rather digitization, he told the audience, was a "grisly" scenario, one that would lead to readers treating books like music, downloading and cutting them into playlist-like "snippets." The word "snippets" was delivered with an East Coast snap - teeth into an October apple - for maximum onomatopoetic effect...
What a trip that Condoleezza Rice is! She recently told Bono, "I loved acid rock in college--and I still do." What else gets a Secretary of State grooving? TIME looked at Rice's eclectic playlist and asked her predecessors to name their top tunes. Can you match the Secretaries and their music of choice...
...Passport-compatible neXus - promise more. They're much smaller, and even the Helix and Inno have built in antennae. You can record swaths of programming from a station, and find it already listed by song title or artist. You can delete songs and station identifications to create a tidy playlist of good music you didn't have to buy. It's yours as long as you pay your subscription and dock your player regularly...