It is very much possible to host enormous bodies of culture online without the help of algorithmic feeds; after all, culture itself offers a kind of algorithm to follow, as each artist influences and inspires others, referencing and building on history. Those are the kind of connections from which Paul Cavalconte built his radio playlists. I thought about Janczukowicz’s description of the need to “maintain a culture.” It’s not just that the music needs to be available to be listened to online; it’s that it must be presented in a coherent fashion, in a way that allows for education beyond
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