Hello,

I thought the attached paper would be of interest to people on this
list. The author, Frank Bentley, gave a talk yesterday at Yahoo!
Research Berkeley, and the topic of digital music packaging arose. A
unified interface for browsing, sharing and consuming different media
types could be considered a way of dynamically creating personalized
packaging for music.

"We describe the results of two ethnographic-style studies that
investigated consumer use of photos and music respectively. Although the
studies were designed, executed, and analyzed separately, in our
findings we discovered striking similarities between the ways in which
our participants used personally captured photos and commercially
purchased music. These findings have implications for the design of
future systems with respect to handling and sharing content in photo or
music form. We discuss making allowances for satisficing behavior,
sharing media as a way to reminisce or to communicate an experience
(tell a story), getting sidetracked while browsing, and similarities in
organizing behaviors."

Cheers,
Ryan