{"id":3504,"date":"2014-01-17T15:26:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T15:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/?p=3504"},"modified":"2014-01-17T15:26:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T15:26:28","slug":"links-worth-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/links-worth-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Links Worth Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating and frankly depressing story<\/a> about how US radio stations are playing the hits more to battle against the likes of Spotify and iTunes Radio. Because if there’s one thing I can find easily without listening to the radio, it’s the biggest hit songs. The piece ends with this profoundly downbeat quote from a US radio programmer: “Taking risks is not rewarded, so we have to be more careful than ever before.” Good luck with that strategy. [Note: It may be paywalled, but this link is from Google News]\n

Google has put together a really interesting visualisation<\/a> of the music Google Play Music users have in their libraries. Really quite fascinating and well worth playing with. There’s a bit of detail about how they put the data together here<\/a>. [Via Chris Hamilton<\/a>]\n

And a good read from Digg on why audio doesn’t go viral<\/a>. It’s a real shame that it’s so hard to share decent audio online. If I hear a funny “bit” on the radio in the morning, it’s such an effort to wait for it to be made available via podcast\/listen again, and then requires audio editing software to chop up the section you wanted to highlight. Even then, the easiest way is to probably make a YouTube “video”. [Via Brainpicker<\/a>]\n

And I wonder who the mystery radio sales exec<\/a> is who’s been posting on Twitter recently?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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