A Bit Eclectic

Flickr rolled out a new feature to help us share our photos and videos. It is a little Share This button in the upper right hand corner of a photo page, sets page, or group. After clicking it you get a drop down menu where you can: email it, grab the link, grab the embed code, or post it to your blog (which requires some setup.)

This simple little feature will help us share more of the interesting stuff that we find on flickr.

Back in the day there were mix tapes.  You would take a set of songs that you liked and made a tape for your friends or yourself.  Then CDs came along and started to change the game.  It was faster and easier to make.  Plus, you had way more room to write the names of the songs.  The name also changed.  No longer did we have mix tapes, instead the mixes took over.  People started making these all the time.  It was one of the best ways to share your favorite songs.  Everyone could enjoy a piece of your world.

I have taken it one step further.  CDs don’t hold nearly enough music in this world full of iPods.  So I moved over to an iPod, the iPod shuffle that is.  My girlfriend and I both have shuffles.  Each of us has a playlist full of songs we love.  Whenever we visit each other we fill our shuffles with a random selection from these playlists.  Now we can rock out to the other’s musical taste.

I have always thought of the iPod as my personal music cocoon.  It wraps me up and takes me to my own place.  Now with the shuffle, I can choose to be encompassed in either my great musical taste or my girlfriends.  The lack of display isn’t really a problem.  The only button you need is the one that takes you to the next song.  This helps on those songs where your musical tastes don’t quite mesh or if you don’t want to hear that Ted Leo song for the 20th time.