Visitors can read and listen to programs, write comments, find shows they missed and sign up to receive programs by weekly e-mail.
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Listen.com, also in San Francisco, is using a similar idea to build a directory of music on the web, complete with reviews written initially by its own reviewers, but incorporating the comments of visitors to its website as well.
"Our visitors' book is full of comments from people who've come from around the world, telling us what 'Pride and Prejudice' means to them, " says West.