I have to admit, I’m no longer a member of the MTV generation. In fact I can’t even remember the last time I watched a music channel on TV. The idea of letting somebody else govern what music I should listen to seems bizarre to me, especially considering the wealth of sites out there that will let you listen to whatever music you like, whenever you like.

So first off, how do you find new music?

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With a capital “A”. Seriously, since Web 2.0 started to really roll out and more and more sites started to adopt its philosophy I’ve noticed a complete paradigm shift in what the Internet means to me. I literally love the internet now whereas maybe 2 years ago I was becoming increasingly disillusioned as to its real world merits. It was becoming like TV, I was merely flicking through my favorite sites on a daily basis, reading my usual RSS feeds and then switching it off.

However things started to change a while back when a friend pointed me in the direction of this new toolbar called “Stumbleupon”. My whole life I have hated additional toolbars in browsers, all to often I’ve had to clean out a friends PC only to see the myriad of toolbars they have installed that are there due to a virus or are slowing down their computer because they are bloated and poorly coded. So when I was told about this “must have” toolbar, I took the advice with a pinch of salt.

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I’m writing this in w.bloggar, posting this to my Wordpress blog and viewing it in Firefox. I edit my pictures in Paint.NET, write my documents in Open Office and upload files to my site with Filezilla. How much did I pay for this? Nothing! (well technically not nothing, electricity and bandwidth was involved which I pay for). I’m shamed to admit it but I only started using Firefox full time a week ago. In work I always had firefox installed but had become accustomed to using IE over the years, IE just “worked” so I thought “why change?”

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