Up Next: iPod leads to Murder!

The New Scientists has a funny piece about how music-sharing with friends leads to social tensions:

Amy Voida and colleagues from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Palo Alto Research Center in California, US, interviewed 13 US office workers who routinely listened to each others’ music via their company's computer network, using Apple's iTunes music software.

Participants confessed to forming judgements about co-workers based on the taste - or lack of taste - revealed by their music collection. Many also admitted to tailoring their own music library to project a particular persona, and some said they deliberately hid particularly embarrassing tracks from others.

This is why I refuse to do the whole "Top Ten Random Tracks" thing so many other blogs do. I'm afraid of revealing my Lion King uhh... classical MP3s