Where are the canonical web designs?

Do Canonical Web Designs Exist?

An interesting question, and the short answer is "Yes." Google and Amazon are the canonical web designs of our time. Why? Go to the Canonical Web Design site to find out.

Top 100 chart for indie cds

RIAA Radar Charts: RIAA Radar Indie 100

RIAA Radar Indie 100 is the music chart of the top 100 most popular, non-RIAA cds on amazon.com, and it's updated daily.

Regular readers of Linkjockey (Hi Jake!) might know that I love music, but I'm not a fan of the Record Labels' mega consortium. I've made a personal choice not to purchase any music this year from the major labels because of their dirty tactics. Instead, I'm downloading music legally for free on the net, and supporting independent musicians and labels wherever I can. Today's link will help me in this quest.

Today's Link source: Reddit

Top 8 Social Music sites

Social Music Overview

TechCrunch today has a round-up of 8 popular social music sites.

They are:
FineTune
Pandora
last.fm
MOG
radio.blog.club
MyStrands
iLike
iJigg

And what is a "social music site"? It's kind of like Amazon's book recommendations; the software tracks the relationships between different things that people like, and reports tendencies as suggestions for others. If you bought Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth DVD, you're more likely to buy the book Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century.

What does this mean for you? These sites will suggest new music for you, based on the suggestions of others with similar tastes or your iTunes playlist. They'll suggest music blogs or let you build online playlists. They'll help you discover great new music.