The Social Network in the Music Blogosphere

About this time last year, I was busy putting the finishing touches to a data harvesting program which would go off to the internet and grab posts from music blogs when notified of updates via a feed. The motivation was my MSc Computer Science project, at the time untitled, and without much of a plan or a direction to go in. I knew I wanted to do something related to music, and probably to do with recommendations, with a view to creating a hopefully fresh take at how content can be discovered from editorially subjective sources, rather than behavioural sources such as playlists. Read the rest of this entry »