Let it never be said that our Blogcritics aren’t newsworthy. Ryan Irelan was featured in the NY Times yesterday – how cool is that? The compulsion to get noticed by some of the big fish in the blogging world is tempting for many, however, because it can lead to significant …

Time’s new list of the 50 Best Websites is pretty standard fare: most of the ususal reference, info, shopping standards that are pretty hard to argue with. But then we come to the Blogs section. There is only one. It is Gawker. Let me think of how to put this …

The great iconoclast Lou Reed will be latest inductee to Hollywood’s RockWalk Tuesday, June 24, at noon. Sweet Lou Reed will also appear at Tower Records Sunset for an in-store signing on Monday, June 23 at 7 p.m. and will perform at The Wiltern Theatre on Tuesday, June 24. The …

A gathering to explore the future of P2P in L.A. Auguest 8: P2P Summit announced today its formation and date for the upcoming summit focused exclusively on the explosive file sharing phenomena and its impact on the future of entertainment. P2P Summit is seeking speakers, sponsors and exhibitors for the …

RIAA head Hilary Rosen to become talking head on CNBC: Rosen, who will officially step down from her powerful RIAA post at the end of the month, has inked a deal to be a commentator for CNBC, she recently told music industry executives in an e-mail, a copy of which …

FCC’s monkey spanked: The Senate Commerce Committee voted Thursday to overturn parts of a Federal Communications Commission decision freeing media companies from decades-old ownership limits and allowing them to buy more outlets and merge in new ways. The proposal … would roll back changes that allowed individual companies to own …

RIAA treading lightly with the four Verizon uploaders plus one Earthlink customer: Four Internet users at the center of a legal battle over copyright violations will receive cease-and-desist letters demanding they stop illegally offering free music for downloading, the Recording Industry Association of America said Wednesday. A U.S. appeals court …

Our own Dazzling David Weinberger featured in an anti-DRM essay by Steve Levy in Newsweek: When Steve Jobs introduced the iTunes music store a few weeks ago, the acclaim was nearly universal. Nonetheless, a small but vocal minority viewed the online emporium as a menace – because the iTunes program …

I had the great fortune of getting an early advance of the new, fateful, final Warren Zevon CD, “The Wind.” Besides being a fan for over 25 years, we also met Zevon at the big Blogger Bash at Brian Linse’s last summer. We even had some pics Dawn took. So …

Hatch isn’t satisfied with your computer – now he wants your eyeballs. As satire maybe it’s a tad heavy-handed, but then again the real story reads like The Onion: Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today introduced legislation authorizing the use of high-powered microwave lasers to burn out the eyes of non-paying …