Miscellaneous organziation Part two!

This week we covered other miscellaneous organziational stuff via web 2.0. Professor Franks talked about several things in her lecture that I wanted to comment on:

1.   I heard about the thing in Bozeman (as where I live, we get a lot of news out of Montant) and I think it's extremely wrong and frankly against the law to do that. You're not allowed to ask about age, race, religion, etc on applications. So why should they be allowed to see that sort of thing on social networking sites? It's one thing to ask just for the URLs but to ask for the passwords and log in information? absolutely ludicrious!
2. Using Evite
   - In a group I belong to we, have virtual gift giving and we use elfster to draw names
3. Online reporting and ethics
   They may be getting it quickly but it also lowers the quality of the "reporting" and the
   ethical standards should be held on to...
4. "News Now!"
   I love my NookColor but I still will rather pick up a physical book if I can
5. Music Industry
   people still "trade" music every single day...
6. Pandora/streaming music/Music trade
   I love my Pandora... My brother got me into them when they were still a really really small group and I haven't looked back. But I also use my itunes (now that I have it back, whole drama there in and of itself) to play music. It's free and very little ads like Pandora, except I don't waste my Pandora hours
   
   Great music websites:
   Musicpedia
   Music Map
   Miscovery (Similar to pandora)
   I will still and am on planning on buying CDS. I have an artist who has a new album coming out soon and I plan on buying his CD. Most of my Cd purchases now are by small artists or artists who don't have a big name label behind them.
   Pandora has also shown me new artists who's music I've really enjoyed

Just Cause music was mentioned. One of the most awesome music experiments ever, Joshua Bell in a subway station:

Music, culture, and life

What and where are the "places" for music in your life? 
Music is huge part of my life.. I'm constantly listening to music, usually while I'm at my computer or at work. What I listen to really depends on my mood... for some things, like reading school stuff it's classical or music without lyrics; for work, it's usually just a random shuffle of my music.

What place does music have on the Internet? How is it the same or different from the physical places that exist for music in our culture such as concert halls, record shops, music stores, and music schools?
I think music has a very important place on the internet and it's changing how music is promoted, sold, and even created. It's different because people don't have to leave their homes to listen to new music or buy music. However, I truly feel that, even though you can listen to a concert on the internet, you don't get the same experience that you do when go them live. Not to mention, you find other people with similar interests and you never know where that will lead.

I was reading in the first chapter of Soundtracks: Popular Music, Identity, and Place and it talks about what is popular music and it's place in culture. It asks "what is popular music"? It is a very good question. While I don't listen to and can't stand Katy Perry, she is considered popular because she's on major radio stations. However there is artists like Carrie Underwood who is an country artist and mostly played on country stations. Is she still pop music?  Same for artists like Rod Stewart... He's popular on adult contemporary stations, so is he pop music?

On a side note, I wish people would take this title and apply it as it should be. Soundtracks provide a track of sound for something. They don't help the something along, they don't move the plot in a movie, tv show, or video game. However, CDs of musical theatre shows ARE NOT soundtracks. the songs on those cast recordings help move the plot along and if the show did not have them, the show wouldn't move.