If you’ve ever talked to me about music, chances are that I’ve mentioned Pandora, my all-time favorite web radio application … ever. Pandora starts with a suggestion; say you like you some No Doubt, or maybe you heard Little Brown Jug for the first time, and you’re itchin’ to find something else to make your toes go all nimbly-jimbly and dance around. Pandora’s got that, they’ll take your suggestion, and they’ll roll with it, and you’ll like some of what you play, and you won’t like other choices, but as you go along you can tell them what you think, and in this fashion your station becomes more and more refined, more and more perceptive, perhaps even, ultimately, sympathetic to your search for a certain feel of music.
Today, however, no toes are tapping. Today there exists only silence in the hallowed halls of pandora.com. Today we observe a day of silence, and hope that it really, truly, only lasts a day.
Today, you can be sympathetic to Pandora’s cause, and fight to save internet radio.