I'm using the shuffle feature on my iPod - what an odd collection of music I have... nothing like the Spring movement of Vivaldi's 4 Seasons followed by Death Comes Calling by Everlast. I'm using the shuffle feature because I've been pretty much listening to the same 3 or 4 albums over the last week... and I'm really getting bored.
With 5300 songs available, the choice that I have at my fingertips with music is not unlike being a consumer in general today. Think about it, choice is everywhere. Seth Godin had a great "edge" in Free Prize: Go to the extreme - offer a ton of stuff or very few items (or something like that).
If we decide to go out to dinner, there are dozens of restaurants, from McDonalds (which I'm not so sure is on our list anymore after watching Supersize Me) to Alfred's Victorian (one of the high end places around here).
Millions of blogs
Millions of web sites
Thousands of books, magazines, movies, and records to choose from.
Thousands of products on the average grocery store shelf.
Hundreds of TV channels.
Etc. Etc.
Perhaps we need a shuffle feature on life!
Maybe there is already a BlogShuffle - where every day you'd get 2 or 3 new/different blogs.
But what about everything else? Do you have a way of shuffling through all of lifes choices?
Shuffle in your life? I like this expression. One thing for blogs is the "Next Blog" feature at Blogger which randomly transports you to the next blog. So you get to see blog you would never have seen normally.
How is Swizerland?
Posted by: Andreas | October 06, 2004 at 09:10 PM
I shuffle my custom in shops... depending on what I find and the reception I get ;)
I hate hard sells, even if I love the article in question. I'll look elsewhere. Same goes for snobbish salesmen (there're a lot over here). The French have a lot to learn about service.
Posted by: Christopher Grove | October 07, 2004 at 06:33 AM
Andreas, thank you! Yeah, that is a nice feature on Blogger, I like it. Of course, I wouldn't want to make it easy for people to clik away from my blog... ;-) Just kidding!!!
Chris, yeah, I do the same - I'll change my demeanor based on the way I'm treated.
Posted by: Jon Strande | October 07, 2004 at 07:56 PM