What Noisy Cats Are We » News http://www.feedmittens.com/fmblog My life, in a nutshell. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:23:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Pandora.Com now charging .99 per month for heavy users. http://www.feedmittens.com/fmblog/2009/07/20/pandora-com-now-charging-99-month-for-heavy-usage-users/ http://www.feedmittens.com/fmblog/2009/07/20/pandora-com-now-charging-99-month-for-heavy-usage-users/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:50:57 +0000 admin http://www.feedmittens.com/fmblog/?p=246 According to this post on Pandora.Com, they will now start charging .99 per month for users who go over 40 hours a month on their service.  I have been both a Pandora, as well as Last.Fm (as you can see by the sidebar here) user for a long time, and I totally understand why they need to do this.  Maybe it speaks for the service’s longetivity, and I will not be too happy to hear about all the Internet bitching that will happen because OH NO A COMPANY NEEDS SOME INCOME TO OFFSET THE ROYALTEES AND IT WILL NOT AFFECT MANY USERS AT ALL!  OMGPONIES!!!!!  I’m already sighing that the sheer amount of tilting at windmills I’m going to be seeing on Digg and other sites.

Whatever.  Pandora rules.  It took like five songs to get from The Fiery Furnaces to Letters To Cleo.  If you know me, you’ll understand why I find that impressive.

]]> http://www.feedmittens.com/fmblog/2009/07/20/pandora-com-now-charging-99-month-for-heavy-usage-users/feed/ 0 T. Boone Pickens switches to wind energy http://www.feedmittens.com/fmblog/2008/07/08/t-boone-pickens-switches-to-wind-energy/ http://www.feedmittens.com/fmblog/2008/07/08/t-boone-pickens-switches-to-wind-energy/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:56:14 +0000 admin http://www.feedmittens.com/fmblog/?p=47 Very interesting news development.  Also, listen to the NPR story linked here:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92306239.  The guy makes a lot of sense out of things that a lot of people don’t think about normally.

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