The End

As Com 435 comes to a close, I can't lie, I'm a little bit happy.
I do feel I benefited a lot from the course, such as learning about really helpful technologies such as Google Docs (Which is quite awesome!)

But I won't lie, I'll be glad to get away from Twitter..I'm so ashamed that I had to activate it on my cell phone haha.

For my technology poster, I made a presentation for Sun Micorsystem's new music recommendation technology.

It is like Pandora, but better. It's completely computer animated and does the same work that takes a Pandora staff member 20 minutes to do in 3 minutes. The computer actually determines the genre and then the system gets information about the music from more credible sources (Music Reviews, blogs, etc) and cross references those to recommend music that you might actually like!

I never use Pandora because it usually recommends things I don't want to listen to. This site appears to be more accurate!

It was fun to learn about something that i might actually use! Plus I got to include a giant picture of John Mayer on my poster so I was a happy camper!

It's been a great semester.
I hope you've all enjoyed the song selections and were open to new types of music.

So here is the final one! This song just makes me happy. Plus the video is so awesome!
"Strawberry Swing" by Coldplay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYtk1ZOUUue
(If this link doesn't work, just go to YouTube and type in the song and artist. For some reason the copy and paste feature on my computer is acting up...)
Enjoy!
Rock on!
Kimmy

For our final project for Com 435, we were to present an emerging technology to the class by competing with elaborate poster presentations to compete for our classmates' attention. It seemed somewhat like a third grade science fair in my opinion, which is part of why I actully had fun attending.



If we liked someones' presentation, we were to use our cell phones to tweet about it.



I looked high and low for technologies about music, but few presented themselves. I hope to change that for when I present on Friday!

How about some Ray LaMontange...
"Trouble"
Because with all the work I had to do this week, trouble is what I felt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp3ltmw6cml

"Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime"

I consider myself to hold very high standards when it comes to music. That said, I don't believe that the holidays are justification for us to listen to bad music all season.

Don't get me wrong, I love one cheesy Christmas song after the next, and most of the classics are beautiful, I mean, come on, who can deny Bing Crosby?

But this is the time of year where I get excited to pull out some really good songs which I feel a little bit guilty listening to any other time of year.

One of my friends just introduced me to a new website Lala.com which has about any song you could ever think of.

I also enjoy searching Google to find my favorite artists' renditions of classics.

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" by Coldplay
"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" by Barenaked Ladies and Sarah McLaughlin
"Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" By Jack Johnson

Each song is classic but the gets a little bit of flare from the artist that covers it.

I love to find new, nontraditional Christmas music as well.

My favorite Christmas song is "All That I Want" by The Weepies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0EJbr0rFV4&feature=PlayList&p=3C7EDDA78EE64DDD&index=1

So check it out!
And join in on the Christmas caroling this year!
"The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!"

Kimmy

The announcement of the Grammy Award nominees is like an early Christmas gift for me...

I was pleasantly surprised by a few nominations this year.

Coldplay, Dave Matthews Band, The Fray, u2, Deathcab for Cutie, David Bryne and Brian Eno, Jason Mraz, Kings of Leon, and the guy who engineered Ray LaMontange's latest album are all up for nominations, but I'm most thrilled for nominations for progressive rock hippies, MGMT and Paris based rockers, Phoenix!!!

Taylor Swift, Beyonce, The Black Eyed Peas, and Lady Gaga all have a bunch of nominations and certain technologies make it easy to see how people feel about the academy's choices for nominees.

However you feel about the nominees, it is easy to post your feelings on Twitter. The nomination list came out last night and was in the top 10 topics tweeted about today.

If you're not familiar with all the nominees, there is no better (or easier) way to find out their music by simply popping their name into google or YouTube.

For a full list of the 2010 Grammy Nominees go to http://www.grammy.com/

MGMT is up for 2 awards, including best new artist!
Check them out!

"Kids" by MGMT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAmcpsN1GL4&feature=related

Rock on!
Kimmy