I’m working on something that needs access to a catalog of songs and albums. I’m testing the Yahoo Music API, but I’m getting such horrible results. They are inconsistent. Simply asking for a different number of results per request causes the query to sometimes find nothing. I hate this, as they have a great catalog and the results that do return are good. The reliability is just awful, though, and that makes it hard to build anything around them.
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11/24/2008
Newsweek’s Daniel Gross explains the Consumer Price Index (here’s the official BLS site) in a very simple video. I could do without the goofy sound effects, but it’s a good, 2 minute explanation of how the government tracks inflation.
Per David Simon’s Berkeley talk, though, the video doesn’t go into why this matters. Perhaps they’ll cover that in the next installment of the Economics 101 series.
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February 24th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
you might prefer the audioscrobbler network.
http://www.audioscrobbler.net/
i’ve been working on it with a few of my projects, and i really like the idea of using it to get related artists.