I like services like Pandora, with a huge database and a smart algorithm to help me discover music I am susceptible to like. But it still misses something : the fact that music I am susceptible to like might sound nothing like music I already like. For this I prefer blip.fm - people are very more likely to surprise me with unexpected good tunes than any machine calculus. (And anyway, Pandora is not available for me any longer).

I also like (and still use) last.fm a lot - there are humans in it already - but I find the friendship mechanism not very flexible, and I cannot listen to a stream built on all my friends tastes. For this, I prefer blip.fm, its twitter-like subscription concept (that is: not necessarily symmetric, I don't need to be approved as friend to start listening to someone's music) makes it really easy to build and fine-tune a web radio based on people I trust are going to surprise me the good way.

I subscribe to both friends I know in real life and to anonymous strangers I discover by suggestion or by accident. If I get tired of somebody's blips, I can just unsubscribe from him, and nobody's hurt (well… for people I don't know at least. For my actual friends it does not happen, because… well they are my friends, so they have good music taste ;))

Bonus reasons:

• I can decorate my twits with music
• It's damn simple
• I like receiving props :)

Pass, pass the BLIP !