Podzinger Rocks

When was the last time a search engine made you say, "Wow"? For me, it was probably the first time I tried on its own page. (The difference between the two: the Creative Commons search allows you to find Creative Commons-licensed work.) The search suggests you can "find music through music." Click on the graphic that invites you to open an MP3 file, and the file you select appears as a waveform in a blue space that occupies the top of the page. Click the play button and you can listen to the song as a slider moves across the waveform. Stop the music from playing when you hit a spot you really like, then click the search button. OWL will find other songs like the one you were playing from a current database of more than 10,000 songs from independent music sites. I picked "Missing Person" from the new Eric Clapton/J.J. Cale collaboration, "The Road to Escondido;" OWL found 55 songs by artists I'd never heard of, providing me with information but also the ability to play the song-and specifically, the part of the song that matched my original selection. You can also limit your search to genres like classical, new age, rock, jazz and blues. I can't get the OWL music discovery engine to work in Internet Explorer 7, so be sure you have Firefox or some other browser before giving it a try. But...wow. Bookmark Murdok: Holtz Communication + Technology which focuses on helping organizations apply online communication capabilities to their strategic organizational communications.