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                  1. This BuzzFeed Playlist-Makers feature is amazing.
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                  You should note how many of these playlist makers are journalists. Basically this is a form of music journalism.
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                And wow is it easy to think of this as a counterpoint to the NYT "Be run by your readers" column that recently came out.
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              "breathe intangible values into frictionless machines." "prolific experts"
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            "creating difference in a market where everyone has more or less the same goods."
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          Like BASICALLY THE ENTIRE PROBLEM of modern digital journalism, right there ^
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        "playlists being the dominant mode of discovery in the near future ... more people are going to want to go to trusted playlists."
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      Note how focused they are on providing representation of a wide variety of demographics.
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    One successful curator "has a track record for being ahead of the curve"
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      Small-batch, curation-focused, heavily user-tested, researched, but also instinctual. "policies in place to preserve editorial independence"
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        It's even competing for subscription $$$. This is like reading an alternate reality of what journalism could've been buzzfeed.com/reggieugwu/the-unsung-heroes-of-the-music-streaming-boom?utm_term=.cekx0wAz1#.heawlyBJz
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          "accounts for things like average play length, skips, and number of thumbs-up or thumbs-down" I want this in every newsroom.
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            At Spotify: 'Many users are Latin, maybe we should have a Latin person pay special attention for them'. At NYT: publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/29/in-a-time-of-racial-turmoil-why-change-course-on-covering-race/
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              Google's playlists even structured like a newsroom, "20 full-time Google Play Music editors + an extensive network of freelance specialists"
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                "Their value to companies like Google ... ultimately stems from firsthand insight into the ways people forge big and small identities..."
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                  "more about the way it makes you feel." Imagine, just imagine, a news org less about identity or politics, more about the it makes you feel?
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                    Whole different set of verticals. News to: Make you angry; Make you happy; Make you sad; Make you celebrate... hm...
                    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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                      Or TED:
                      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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                        "existing, culturally adept, human-curated"
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                          Hold on, I'm cracking up because the description of the visit to Apple Music is hilarious.
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                            Such a good read.


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