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Music and the web have a long history, from Napster through the iTunes Store to the MP3 blogs of today. For Web 2.0 hackers, however, the availability of public APIs proves pretty hit or miss. Cool mash-ups do exist - for instance, TuneGlue MusicMap, which provides nice visualization to data from Last.fm and Amazon.
Reports are that 97.5 million viewers saw the New York Giants' 17-14 last-minute win over the New England Patriots, making it the most-watched Super Bowl ever and second biggest event in American television history. Only the "MASH" series finale in 1983, with 106 million viewers, was said to have been seen by more people.
"On January 18th 2004, Strictly Kev premiered the original 'Raiding The 20th Century' on XFM's 'The Remix' show in London. It was a 40 minute attempt to catalogue the history of cut up music - be it avant garde tape manipulation, turntable megamixes or bastard pop mash ups.
M*A*S*H ran for 11 years, despite a setting of the Korean war which was 8 years shorter. It’s just about to enter it’s 25 year of syndication and it still holds the record for the most watched episode in American history. Now I don’t know about you, but I’d love for my blog to be that remarkable, that durable, and that successful.
When a TV show lasts nearly 4 times as long as the subject it covers, it’s a pretty good indication that they did something right. When the series finale becomes the most watched episode in American history, with a whopping 50 million viewers and 60% of households tuning in, you realize the show was remarkable.
History mashed potato
