Opening pandora's box

I always thought opeing Pandora's box was supposed to be a bad thing. Well today I stumbled upon Pandora the site. If you're into music, this seems to be a really 'cool app'.

Pandora allows you to create 'Stations' based on your favorite musicians and/or songs. Based on these entries Pandora selects similar music to play on your station based on their "Music Gnenome Project".

I've been playing with the site for awhile here and so far so good. I've even added the Pandora App to my Facebook page so that I can share my music likes with visitors there. While, I am writing about Facebook I also recommend Shelfari as another cool app to add to pages. Just like sharing music, through Shelfari I can now share the books that I have read with my friends.

Happy Browsing!

A cornucopia of crimemap mash-ups

A number of news sites have started deploying Mash-ups of crime logs from their communities. Danny Sanchez of the Orlando Sentinel has put together a collection of these mash-ups from various outlets on his blog Journalistopia.

I have not had a chance to review many of these examples myself, but it does appear to be a great collection. If you have been thinking of utilizing crimemap mash-ups on your site, this would be a great starter location for some ideas.

Giving further props to Sanchez for this cartoon from his Journalistopia Cartoon collection.