Word: playlists
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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...
...course you can download albums - Urge has as many as any other subscription service - but why bother? In my first foray, I grabbed celebrity playlists from Mike Myers, Sarah Silverman and Matt Costa, plus a 17-track "Must-Haves" list featuring 1970s singer-songwriters. "Must-Haves," which range from club anthems to Christian rap, are a shorter type of comprehensive playlist. So-called "Super Playlists" contain between 100 and 200 songs, and are labeled by genre (pop, country...
...wasn't just satisfied with static playlists, so it created a series of musical feeds. Halfway between Internet radio and RSS, it's a playlist that changes from day to day. Feeds can be artist-based - an "auto mix" for Eminem includes his work plus songs by other rappers in his league. Some feeds are collections of tracks from the network's shows, such as TRL, VH1's Best Music Week Ever and CMT's Studio 330 Sessions. Urge even includes the Informer blog series, with people writing about music and using downloadable playlists to illustrate their discussions...