I enjoyed this article in the paper Wired
this month and agree about how mix tapes were so important to opening
my horizons to new stuff when I was younger...they still do. Sonic
Youth's Thurston Moore expounds on the power of the mix tape... The Best 90 Minutes of My Life.
I'm not sure if you're hip to Jon Udell, but he's very smart and shares his ideas with us from his blog in screencasts (short Flash animations). yesterday he tackled the Google/content discussion and has some interesting solutions to them.