{"id":392,"date":"2006-09-26T02:25:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T07:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/392"},"modified":"2006-09-26T03:18:49","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T08:18:49","slug":"words-matter-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/392","title":{"rendered":"Words Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few days I&#8217;ve been trying out some of the music recommendation services out there. I really like the idea that my computer can help me find new music to listen to. When I was using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\">Last.fm<\/a> I noticed that the words they use for rating music really don&#8217;t fit with my mental model at all. As you can see in the image below, Last.fm asks be whether I &#8220;Love&#8221; the song, or if they should &#8220;Ban&#8221; it. What if my opinion is somewhere in the middle!? This rating scheme is just too extreme. Or maybe it&#8217;s just a wording issue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"473\" alt=\"LastFM02\" id=\"image393\" src=\"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/lastfm011.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandora.com\/\">Pandora<\/a>, uses language that is simple, and matches my mental model. While listening to each song, I can either tell Pandora that &#8220;I like it&#8221; or &#8220;I don&#8217;t like it&#8221;. Of course, I&#8217;d still like to rate it somewhere in the middle, but still, the less harsh wording encourages me to give my opinion. When the words are harsh, I&#8217;m less likely to agree with the system. That means I&#8217;ve been ignoring Last.fm&#8217;s rating feature altogether!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"473\" alt=\"Pandora02\" id=\"image394\" src=\"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/pandora011.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just my two cents on the matter. Soon enough I&#8217;ll be heading over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mystrands.com\/\">MyStrands<\/a> to give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scwn.net\/\">Justin<\/a>&#8216;s employer a go at this whole music recommendation thing. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few days I&#8217;ve been trying out some of the music recommendation services out there. I really like the idea that my computer can help me find new music to listen to. When I was using Last.fm I noticed that the words they use for rating music really don&#8217;t fit with my mental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2,10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-hci-topic","category-rambling","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}