A while back I signed up for SonicLiving (after hearing about them from pandora_radio's twitter feed - take that, analog life!), a service that tells you about shows coming to your town from bands you like. I've written about similar services in the past, but this one has 2 interesting twists:
- Instead of having to type in your bands like Tourfilter, or having it scan your iTunes library, like SongKick, SonicLiving scans your Pandora & Last.FM profiles once a week to look for artists that you like. I'm not sure what algorithm it uses - if it's your most listened to artists on Last.FM, or only artists you've thumbs-upped [Editor's note: what's the right way to conjugate that?] on Pandora, or maybe artists you used to seed a station, or what, but whatever, its cool. It can scan your iTunes library if you want it to, but I like that it gives me these other options since I hate iTunes.
- They email me about every 5 minutes telling me about shows.
Anyone else signed up for this thing yet?
1 comment:
can't comment on the service, but will comment on conjugation. the past tense you want is a little tricky. the infinitive is "to thumbs up" a song, so i would vote that the correct tense is "thumbed up." like "picked up" or "stood up." the tricky part is that where pick and stand are verbs, thumb is a noun. and even though it's being used as a verb, it's not really verbified in this case. it's still used as a noun wedged awkwardly in a compound verb. and it's a plural noun at that, which discourages you even more from messing with its morphology. but frankly, even if you don't pluralize the "thumb," i still stand by my arguement.
... just my guesstimation. if you want to thumb up my two cents.
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