Cornfield Commentator, Blogcritic, good pal, David Hogberg has moved to a plush new green spot – check it out my friends. Ooh and I like the running ticker across the top.

Cynthia Webb has it all in the Washington Post: The Recording Industry Association of America yesterday announced that it will start patrolling the Internet today for evidence to use against individual peer-to-peer network users and other file swappers suspected of trading “substantial” amounts of copyrighted music online. Expect users of …

A quixotic quest? Like an ice salesman setting up shop in Anchorage, an online music service plans to start recruiting paying subscribers today on the leading outlet for free music on the Internet. Dallas-based Streamwaves is the first music service backed by the major record companies to cozy up to …

Allow me to first say I hate tattoos, on anyone, but especially on women, the body being God’s temple and all of that. But I also don’t expect you to share my opinion – sometimes I think I am the only one left, even my sweet older daughter has a …

More creative use of the web – the glammy Dandy Warhols are moving their new website, called “The Odditorium,” around to various hosts in advance of the domestic release of their Welcome to the Monkey House album: The Odditorium will feature short films (both live and animated), rare and unreleased …

I am deeply gratified to see this development, with electronics manufacturers choosing to service their customers and refusing to be intimidated by the copyright industry: Seventeen of the largest computer, consumer electronics and mobile phone companies on Tuesday said they have agreed on common standards to make it easier for …

Interesting angle from Publishers Weekly on the overwhelming Harry Potter sales numbers: Sales figures for the opening months of Potter have shot up with each successive book, but they’re going up a lot faster than backlist sales are. Or, put another way, for Harry Potter, the initial release is becoming …

Kenny Loggins is the latest veteran artist (Sophie B. Hawkins, Natalie Merchant, Pearl Jam) putting out a record on his own after a lifetime with the majors. Will anyone be left at Sony? From his press release: On the cutting edge of a new trend, Kenny Loggins announced today that …

I keep waiting for R.E.M. to come back with something really great and return to their former seat atop the modern rock pantheon, but it may never happen and the band may just go on forever being pretty good. There are worse things I guess. Anyway, they just set off …

American novelist, author of Exodus about the creation of Israel and Trinity on the conflict in Ireland, has died ay 78: Uris’ novels reflected his experiences as a Marine in World War II and as a war correspondent. His first novel, “Battle Cry,” was published in 1953 when he was …