I received e-mail from Andrew about using the LAST FM social networking tool. He was unable to comment in a previous blog, so I’ve posted his thoughts as a blog entry. By the way, our word verification comment tool is case sensitive. We’ve had occasional problems, but I prefer to use word verification rather than having to approve every comment before it goes live. If for some odd reason you are unable to leave a comment, just e-mail me and I’ll make sure your thoughts are shared on the blog in some capacity (either comment or new blog entry).

-Stephanie ( contact alt.teen.services at yalibrarian.com )
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Hello I tried to leave a comment on the post but it kept saying that i
entered the wrong security code.  I dont know what I was doing wrong
so i figured i’d email it to you.

I have recently found a networking site which I think is really
interesting and I saw that it wasn’t mentioned in the YALSA pdf.  It
is www.Last.fm and it takes all of your recently listened mp3s(from
either your mp3 player or from the player on your computer and tracks
how many times you have played them.  It then will give you potential
“friends” who share similar musical interests.

I have been playing with this site for about a week and I am working
on a program with my teen patrons with this website as a warm up
program to a teen podcast.  I was thinking I could use this to see
what the kids are listening too and see if there is an interest in
making our own podcast.

I would be interested if anyone else has played with this site and/or
done it with teen patrons.

Andrew

p.s. heres the link to my personal last.fm profile to get an idea of
the tracking and what not… http://www.last.fm/user/scumkatt/

Thanks