Someone’s Spying on Me.
Ok, so, usually I pretty much ignore recommendation engines because they’re often so far off for my tastes, they’re just pathetic noise. When I logged on to Amazon to update my Wish List (you know, my fourth (count them … fourth) blogiversary is next week …) I was stunned to see Jump, Little Children’s CD Magazine up front. A pop-up box tells me they think I might be interested in it because I purchased Vertigo from them. (I did? I usually purchase Jump at a local record store.)
I’m not sure how Amazon could glean how much I like the band compared to other bands whose music I’ve purchased from Amazon or compared to the authors of other materials I’ve purchased there. Why not Dr. Seuss or Shel Silverstein, many of whose books were in my last big purchase from Amazon? I do sometimes search for Jump’s materials in Amazon just to see what’s there. It mostly is not the last time I checked. How could Amazon know I’ve been following the band since about … 1994? … 1995? When was 96 Wave first playing Quiet? How does the recommendation engine know I was telling some 20-somethings about the bad this afternoon? And, furthermore, is Amazon aware that I found site selling some of Jump’s recorded Dock Street Theatre shows, which are only some of Jump’s best performances?
Well, it is Friday the 13th.
