Peter Gabriel launches a music recommendation tool called The Filter on Friday. Yes - it's that Peter Gabriel and no - I didn't realise he was working on that kind of thing either.
This tool was launched in beta last year and creates playlists from your iTunes collection according to a few seed tracks you select and according to its analysis of your music taste, which sounds rather ominous.
A new sister site will launch on Friday that includes artist biographies, YouTube videos and so on. This claims to "rekindle a love of your music collection", though I already rely on shuffle to do that. The down side is that it has a tendency to pluck Avril Lavigne out of my 3,000-song collection when I know I never downloaded that. Whatever. The release says this is compatible for Windows Media Player 10 and 11 on XP and Vista, iTunes for Mac and PC and on a handful on Nokia music players.
Anyone tried it?
ITN joins the citizen journalism bandwagon
ITN is hoping its new Uploaded service, part of the newly revamped ITV.com, will help it build a network of "citizen correspondents" that will help shape its TV coverage. That means soliciting content through a box on the new website and publishing an email address for submissions. All groundbreaking stuff.
S4C adds live streaming
S4C, the public service broadcaster for Wales, today introduced free, live streaming of digidol, its digital channel, on the S4C website. The broadcaster introduced on-demand programmes on the web last year and will shortly add live sports events to its web TV offering.
Gratuitous link of the day
This is an absolute peach - an old school film on journalism. There are millions of words out there, as if the journalist's job is to herd them up and put them into a newspaper. Can we refilm this for Web 2.0?
