Entertainment

Jango is one of the more recent entries in the internet radio field -- still in beta, in fact -- and seems to be addressing the money problems that face such services by hooking up its users into a social network. Getting users to hang around on the site, and more importantly to continue interacting with the site, is the key to getting more advertising dollars.

Pandora is not the only internet radio service available, but it may well be the most interesting. Pandora is based on the 8-year-old Music Genome project, which has spent all that time deciphering and encoding the characteristics of thousands of songs for your musical pleasure.

Friends and relatives have kept me pinned down to the subject of digital photography for a while now, and I think we have a pretty good repository of material accumulated on that subject. So, I'm hoping everyone will forgive me if I move on to some other interesting things.

We've long had the idea that we should do short videos on tips and tricks that would be useful to almost everyone if they knew about them. Recently, we settled on calling these 'Short Takes,' and I added a couple of new ones this week. If you're really savvy, you probably already know about at least some of these, but I'm trying to hit the middle of the stream, here.