Something else to do while you’re pretending to work

News from Apple today, via CBS:

iTunes 10

So far 11.7 billion songs have been downloaded from iTunes. At the same
time, 450 million TV episodes and 100 million movies have also been
downloaded, as well as 35 million books.

The 10th major version of iTunes features a hybrid view that displays
album artwork if you have five songs from the same album. Apple also
added a feature to help users discover music with a technology called
Ping, a social network for music, according to jobs. “Facebook and
Twitter meet iTunes,” he said, which is built into iTunes, that allows
you to follow your favorite music and friends and find out what they’re
downloading and talking about. It will include a Top 10 chart
customized with information about the people who you’re following. It
also features security controls allowing you to be as private or as
public as you prefer in sharing your data with a wider circle of
friends or the public.

At least, if you work in music, you can claim that messing around with your friends on iTunes all day is work? I will not be participating, since I don’t need anyone knowing that the last thing I bought on iTunes was “Skidrow (Downtown)” from Little Shop of Horrors, because I simply could not live without hearing it at 2am the other night. These are the things I like to keep private. And then blog about.