Listen to me BLIP
Listen to: The Ting Tings- Great DJ and you’ll find the itch to dance difficult to hide from your co-workers. Recently the buzz (or is it the bass?) around the office is Twitters cooler sibling—Blip.fm, “a combination of 1) a song and 2) a short message that accompanies it. The way you create a blip is to first search for a song that you want to hear (or a song that you want your listeners to hear), then add a short message (under 150 characters), finally you submit it. Submitting a blip is also referred to as “blipping”, so from here on out, when you read “he blipped my favorite track” it means “he submitted a blip that had my favorite song attached.” If you fancy yourself— to steal a line from the Ting Tings — a “great DJ” you can give your social media persona a little edge by introducing your followers, friends and fellow DJs to your favorite hair metal band of the 80s, jazz quartet or country ballad (not that there is anything wrong with country music). It’s an evolutionary leap in the social media realm that may or may not be an indication of where the Web 2.0-sphere is headed. With iPods changing the face of when, where and how we listen to music (aren’t you always curious what that person on the subway is so intently listening to on your morning commute?) Blip.fm is the a new way of maintaining the conversation and capturing an audience, while introducing people (and your community) to a point of personal interest. The folks at Blip.fm even make it easy for you to share the latest single you have on repeat by linking it directly to your Twitter account (without taking your beloved 140 characters), Facebook, Digg and other online sharing devices. It’s different than its other online music peers Pandora and Playlist in that it’s…well… social. However, don’t put it past these other sites to begin introducing the social aspect to their already loyal listeners. Chances are the progressive growth of online media will render our sources for entertainment obsolete slower than recent trends may suggest. With the exception of Hulu of course, but Blip.fm does give you a chance to play DJ for the day and perhaps even entertain your co-workers with some hits from the 80s, 90s and today (Thanks Lite FM radio announcer for the catchy tag). That is unless you have questionable taste in what is constituted as “music,” then maybe it’s best you keep your white earbuds in for your own entertainment.
