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Jeremy writes that the Yahoo! Music Blog is [his] new favorite Yahoo blog. So I checked it out and I agree — the Yahoo Music Blog is a good read. I was particularly impressed by Ian’s post announcing the new Yahoo! Music Engine. YME is an application that lets you manage your [...]

My friend Chris wrote a beautifully simple application that displays the google.com searches (and image searches) side-by-side with the google.cn searches.
Visit the Censorship Viewer homepage, or go directly to the examples of “tiananmen” and “Falun Gong”.
Chris — you should add Yahoo and MSN to the mix as well.

I learned about MP3Tunes.com via a Boing Boing post earlier today. MP3Tunes is a new service from Michael Robertson, the Web 1.0 entrepreneur who brought us mp3.com and Linspire. MP3Tunes’ idea is simple — for $40/yr they will provide enough hosted storage for all of your music. You can synchronize your collection [...]

I dropped by the Apple Store in Palo Alto yesterday to pick up a new iPod as a present for M__. She recently gave me a Nano for my birthday and I liked it so much I had to reciprocate. The Nano is an impressively small device and the tiny color screen is [...]

Did anyone else in California have a problem voting today? My neighborhood precinct polling location, the library on Page St., had no record of my name. Which is odd, considering I’ve registered twice in the district — once when I moved here a year and a half ago, and again when I moved [...]

This post marks the return of a series of articles that review online music services, such as EMusic, the iTunes Music Store, Napster, and more. The fact that almost 2 years have elapsed in between reviews indicates that market has gradually stabilized. Has it done so for the better? No, not necessarily. [...]

So the issue becomes two pronged - can you work a system that benefits both the artists and the end users AND can you also make this system so that it is a transparent replacement to the existing system so that the end users don’t know and/or don’t care that the system has been replaced.

Eric [...]

In reference to this BBC article that claims people who illegally download music also “spent four and a half times more on paid-for music downloads than average fans”, a friend of mine writes:
How long have we all known this, and yet it’s still news?
And she has a point — we do all know that. [...]

As has been widely reported, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has acquired Intermix Media, Inc. for $580 million. Intermix Media is the company that controls MySpace, the popular social networking site. (Read the press release Fox buys MySpace reposted over at Boycott-RIAA.com.)
On one level, I offer my congratulations to Tom and the other guys [...]

I just read a headline about how the iTunes Music Store is now more popular than most P2P networks. On the surface this seems like a great thing — legal online music downloads have reached a level of legitimacy that indicates a viable business model for the record industry. The RIAA has [...]