You can see my answer to the prompt “name three songs you’d put on a road mix tape” below. It takes a nice, hand-holdy approach, first simply providing blank fields for artist and song title, then asking for an intro, justifications for each of the songs (which I neglected to provide), and finally asking you to select album art. All highly structured, and simple.

It reminds me a lot of the new defunct  web 2.0 dating site consumating.com, (bought by CNET in 2005) both in terms of style (big type! ajax everywhere!) and in its approach to coaxing interesting responses out of people with highly directed questions and assignments.

It’s a great example of programming the community, and represents the 2nd wave of the user-generated content boom. By goosing the UGC machine with a little prod to expand the producer class by an order of magnitude or two,  the entire ecosystem gets more fun stuff to consume.

True Affection by The Blow

It's a long road trip. Sometimes we're going 85 on a wide-open road under the western sun, sometimes it's late at night, a blinding rain beating against the rooftop, and we're looking for a road-side motel. It's a long road trip. Let's not forget why we're doing it.