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Some music, radio and technology links from the past week or so. You can find more at my .

Some thoughts on and and how UX needs to engage with making these processes simple and understandable. I think we might need to start down this path sometime.

"Dialup Radio is a tool that distributes human rights and independent media via telephone." Uses interactive voice menus to navigate to content and is based on , an open-source VOIP solution.

Type in a song or band and listen to is stream (no downloads). It seems to grab audio from YouTube videos, based on my test search, as well as the usual suspects I guess. As Matthew says "Just tried it with the song that happened to be playing on my iPod (Fela Kuti's Army Arrangement). Hole in one. I'm impressed."

An RDF ontology for describing TV and radio programmes. It covers brands, series (seasons), episodes, broadcast events, broadcast services, etc. By Yves, Michael and Patrick here.

A simple attention profile generator for music - it takes your last.fm profile, grabs the top artists and creates APML from the most common tags. Nice.