Okay, I give in

I’m horribly addicted to singing up for free things online. I suspect this is why I have more e-mail accounts than I can reasonably remember to check.

This is also why I have an account with del.icio.us, digg, FlickR, YouTube, Myspace, Facebook, and starting now, with Last.fm.

Last.fm is a social music service that Fred Wilson keeps talking about. Because Fred is a VC in the technology area, he’s usually a fairly good judge of which services are cool and useful and which ones aren’t actually that cool.

I figure that since I listen to music more or less whenever I’m doing anything, and I have a very limited scope for discovering new music I might light, I should give last.fm a try. Theoretically, they will help me keep a record of what music I listen to and use correlations between my taste and other people’s tastes to come up with new music recommendations.

I also should get a customized “radio station” of streaming music.

I hope this turns out to be cool. If you’re curious about what i’m listening to, you can find my last.fm profile page here. In a week or so, when there’s enough data, I’ll probably add a list of some sort to the sidebar.