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I caught a couple of the panels offered Thursday at the CMW Digital Media and Music Summit. The first was titled “Recommendation Engines: The Ubersolution To Managing Music Ultra Surplus“. The discussion centered on how people discover new music and how recommendation engines such as Pandora and Last FM filter music to people based on their tastes. The debate is if this is a great new innovation or simply overwhelming to the consumer who now has a million choices at their fingertips.

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Friday was a jam-packed day for this gal, and started at 7:45 am at The Royal York Hotel with the 6th Annual Women in Broadcast “Trailblazers” Breakfast, produced by a trailblazer in her own right, Liz Janik. This year’s breakfast included guest speaker Karen Salmansohn, and Evanov Radio’s Ky Joseph, recipient of this year’s “Rosalie Award”. In case you’re wondering who “Rosalie” would be, she’s none other than Rosalie Trombley, the woman with the Golden Ears, the former receptionist and music librarian who became the Music Director at CKLW-AM in Windsor, famed for her ability to recognize a hit song. Look her up - and you’ll see just how important she was to the classic hits we all know and love.

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