Predicting what to do tonight
February 22nd, 2007
Since moving to London, I have been eagerly looking for good summaries of interesting events happening in the city. So much goes on here that you have to be focussed in what you choose to see. Also, so much happens that it is easy to miss things.
First if all I found Flavorpill, and then Kultureflash - these were a start. The problem is that they don’t tell me what events are coming up in the longer term. Being in London, this is a problem because anything vaguely good seems to sell out very far in advance. Finding out that something exciting is happening next week is often not very useful.
I was over the moon when I realised that last.fm, my favourite online source of music, not only predicts what music I would like to listen to (based on what I have listened to in the past) - it predicts what gigs I might want to go to. This was great, except I had to keep checking back to see what new events were being recommended. Then I realised that they also provide RSS feeds of London-based events that are likely to be of interest to me. You too can keep up to date with what is of interest to me! Or alternatively, set up a profile, train it to your music taste, and then let it predict gigs of interest to you.
This new finding led me to purchase tickets to see Slint in August at Koko in Camden. Magic.
One Response to “Predicting what to do tonight”
1Alex Torrance
February 22nd, 2007 @ 23:57
I subscribe to my iCal feed of attended events, but not to the RSS feed, I check up on last.fm pretty regularly anyway because I like to see what my friends are listening to. Very weird.
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