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Tori Amos is looking for help making her music video for her single “Taxi Ride“: Epic Records, in partnership with Apple QuickTime and RollingStone.com, is pleased to announce the creation of “Tori’s Taxivision”, a new on-line contest in which fans get the opportunity to create a music video for Tori …
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MP3’s With Your Happy Meal?
An interesting take on the “music as utility” model from Greg Blonder: In the late 1800s, when a tenant sought to warm a cold apartment, she had to buy her own coal from passing coal wagons and then haul it in coal buckets up to her fourth-floor kitchen. This apparently …
Read More »Straight From the Horses’ Websites
Cynthia Webb has an excellent column in the Washington Post today listing the many and various military websites providing direct access to info on the war: The Internet offers users worldwide an unprecedented amount of news and commentary about the war in Iraq. But unlike the last war in the …
Read More »Cleve-Blog
Hey, I’m all excited, squirming around in my chair, two big events today: our electronic duo Elliptical performs tonight in Cleveland (check out Elliptical tunes on Blogcritics Radio here), AND my new blog/column, “Cleve-Blog,” went up on Cleveland.com today. Cleve-Blog is an excellent complement to Blogcritics because my focus there …
Read More »New Direction for Jewel
Jewel, who was hanging in the audience on American Idol last night, has a new direction. She swings to an edgy hip-hop beat on her new single “Intuition,” which you can check out for free on her website here. She’s just “a simple girl, in a high-tech digital world.” Word. …
Read More »Celeb Blogs
Our good bud at Forbes Arik Hesseldahl continues his Best of the Blogs tour with celebrity bloggers: You might think that movie stars and pop musicians would jump at the chance to communicate directly with their fans. And indeed, many have tried keeping personal Web logs, or blogs. Unfortunately most …
Read More »Making the RIAA Look Good
At least the RIAA hasn’t tried to press criminal charges against university administrators yet for file sharing: THE British record industry is to prosecute universities that allow students to copy music over the internet through their computer networks. Heads of universities will face criminal sanctions if they collude in the …
Read More »Huge Step Toward Digital Standardization
Hitachi introduces new new optical disc drive that can record on all types of recordable DVD and CD: The drive is different from some of the multiformat DVD drives that have been announced recently by companies such as Sony because it also handles DVD-RAM discs. These are used in several …
Read More »Hacking May Be Impacting War
If this report is accurate, it is very serious and has all kinds of implications, including civilian casualties: Sources have revealed to the mi2g Intelligence Unit that some of the most sophisticated hackers originating from Eastern Europe and Russia are being offered financial incentives to hijack satellite communications through covert …
Read More »PayPal Accused of Money Laundering
PayPal, now owned by eBay, has been accused of violating the Patriot Act by providing payment services to online gambling operations: Silicon Valley-based eBay said it received a letter on Friday in which the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri accused PayPal of violating a provision of the …
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