The articles about Pandora’s music genome was interesting and made me think about the points that were brought up. For example, how some customer feedback wanted their to be an option to play music that was local to the area. Another interesting thought to go along with that, was tracking where pockets of people were listening to the music of certain artists. This could be a tool for the artist when picking a venue for their next performance that way they could optimize their profit while touring. Also, if Pandora disclosed that information to artists they have the possibility of making and extremely large amount of money from any artists who decided to use this method of finding where to play. One thing I did agree with mostly with the doctorate student from UVA, was that Pandora seems to, without fail, play at least two songs consistently every time I will put on a certain playlist. That may be because I have given it a thumbs up, or maybe it is because I have skipped or thumbs downed so many other songs that it is going back to a song that it knows I enjoy.