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As the newest member of the BDTSP, I thought it only right to tell you a little bit about myself and what I am hoping to achieve as the new Community Manager.

I’m 24 and I live and work in London, England. I came across the BDTSP on the Opera Community this year and after watching a couple of episodes I was hooked! I got in touch with the guys to tell them what I thought of the show and kept in touch ever since. So when they advertised the Community Manager position, I immediately offered to help out. So here I am!!!

My Aim

As well as ensuring that all emails and messages are replied to, it is my aim to bring a bigger audience to the BDTSP and to build a community that will interact with eachother and become more involved by giving us feedback in order to improve our show and give you all a more enjoyable viewing experience.I’m also hoping to incorporate the other shows such as Scriggity, into my plan, once I have found my feet with the BDTSP (which shouldn’t be too long!).

Any suggestions, please email me:- leila@bestdamntech.com

Tonight, Tim Westergren (founder and CSO of Pandora.com) hung out with the Best Damn Tech Show, Period. and taped next weeks show. I won’t give anything away, but be sure to check out next weeks show on Tuesday. Tim came along with Michele, who also works for Pandora and they were awesome.

After the taping, we went on over to the Upenn bookstore in Philly for a town hall style meeting. There was an awesome turnout, and Tim did a great job talking about the roots of Pandora and the Music Genome project.

If you haven’t heard of Pandora, you should check them out. Basically, you go to their site, you put in the names of artists and songs you like and they spit out other musicians and songs you might like. Not totally based on user ratings though, they take the style of music, rhythm, and other things, mix and mash it up, and spit out the results.

It’s hella cool. In Best Damn Tech Land, we’re HUGE music fans. Heck, we do the Roadie Show.

We heard that Pandora was going to be in town at the UPenn (philly) bookstore to do a town hall type meeting. It’s tomorrow (Thursday Nov 2 at 7pm). So naturally we invited them to come sit in on the show and they accepted!!! So next Tuesday, be sure to watch Tim Westergren and Michele of Pandora and BDTSP!!!

Here’s some info on the meeting if you’d like to attend:

Pandora Music Genome Project Town Hall

Share your passion for music with Tim Westergren, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Pandora.com, an online personalized radio service powered by the Music Genome Project. As part of Pandora’s outreach to the listener community, and to further the musical research that fuels the Genome, Tim has been traveling around the US speaking with groups in a series of ‘Town Hall’ meetings including numerous stops on college campuses. Tim will be visiting the Penn Bookstore on November 2nd. The project began in January 2000 with the creation of the Music Genome Project, a comprehensive musical taxonomy comprised of 400 musical dimensions designed to capture a song’s musical ‘DNA’. It allows for the creation of radio ’stations’ that play music listeners’ love, with very little effort. It is a free, ad-supported service. Since its launch just 10 months ago, Pandora has become the world’s third largest online radio broadcaster, with more than 3.5 million registered listeners. The service has been featured in such publications as the New York Times, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Rolling Stone, the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine (2006 Top 50 Website), Wired, National Public Radio and many other news outlets. Come listen to Tim’s presentation, followed by an informal Q&A discussion driven by the particular interests of the audience. These forums, which have been held from Biloxi, MS to New York City, and from Orlando to Seattle, have involved lively discussions about Pandora, online music, and the evolution of digital technology in general. Don’t miss the opportunity to weigh in on this new and exciting phenomenon - plan to be at the Penn Bookstore, Nov. 2 - 7 pm

Check it out!

Audio is here folks, albeit a little delayed. For now you’ll just have to imagine our beautiful faces until we’re able to get the video up and running. Hope you’re having a geek day!

Drew Olanoff here reporting from sunny San Diego (i’ve always wanted to say I was reporting from somewhere)

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We’re going to be showing some really hot stuff at DEMOfall 2006 on Tuesday. The guys are working on the presentation and I’m grabbing some video and audio. I’ll post some stuff soon, as I haven’t really unpacked my bags yet. We grabbed some grub and we had to scoot over to another hotel because internet access at ours was dead, thanks to Sprint. Bastards.

Exciting times, stay tuned!