English 680V: Visual Rhetoric in a Technological Age (Purdue)

Convergence Culture? Well here's a website that reads your iTunes play counts (and you can install a plug-in that tracks your ipod) and creates "neighborhoods" of people who like similar stuff. Plus, of course, you can add friends, recommend and they (a la Epic 2015) generate not only recommendations, but have full-length and short clips of songs for you to sample. If that weren't enough (ipod-net-music industry-networking) there's also quilts of band images that you can post to your myspace profile (oh you gorgeous nugget of visual rhetoric) and a reccomended band live show search engine that recommends live performances. It's crazy.

http://www.last.fm/