You’re well aware I’m not in love with Ping, and I’d be willing to bet you aren’t, either. Ping blows. Like, a lot. A thinly-veiled attempt to sell more albums, Ping has, so far, been a joke of a ‘social’ experience. Now, Ping has added the ability to share playlists. Of your own music. Why this feature wasn’t implemented on day one will remain forever a mystery. That’s the only reason I, for one, signed up – to share my music with friend and foe alike! Of course, when I realized that Apple wanted me to be more ‘volunteer sales associate’ than ‘music enthusiast’, I quickly shut it off and disabled my iTunes…

There’s something so bizarre about posthumous album releases. Like, what’s the deal with 2pac? I think I read somewhere that he’s released more music while dead than alive at this point? That’s probably untrue, but that the claim can even be made and reasonably believed at all renders it pretty bizarre, at any rate. Then again, I don’t listen to rap. Anyway, seems the latest corpse to be cranking out the hits will be none other than the King of Pop, whose forthcoming album ‘Michael’ will feature new music featuring the likes of 50 Cent and Lenny Kravitz, as well as a previously-unreleased jam from…

So Apple is dancing around, boasting of one million users having joined Ping in under 48 hours. That’s a pretty funky dance, Apple. “One-third of the people who have downloaded iTunes 10 have joined Ping,“ says Eddy Cue, vice president of Internet Services. “As many more people download iTunes 10 in the coming weeks, we expect the Ping community to continue growing.” Alright, Ed. Granted, that sounds impressive. But consider the following: Spider-Man 3 is one of the top-grossing movies of all time. It is also universally hailed as one of the worst movies of all time. The perceived popularity…

I’m not going to get dragged into the mudslinging over iTunes 10. I’m not. I flat out refuse. Two of my co-Techi’s have written, in some depth and with greater eloquence than I. Okay, seriously, WTF Apple? iTunes 10 UI changes-for-the-sake-of-changes aside, what is it you’ve actually got here? The ‘Facebook’ of music? The ‘Twitter’ of media? No. At best, you have a crappy, restrictive accounts system that users now have the option to make public. I know some people wanted this system, they see iTunes as Last.fm on steroids, but I really don’t see this as Apple’s advantage. Apple has typically done…