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Gladwell On Spaghetti Sauce I need you to watch Malcolm Gladwell's TED talk "What We Can Learn From Spaghetti Sauce". I'll post the link at the bottom. It's an almost eighteen minute video. You won't understand where he's going until at least half way through. But, as he reaches his climax, you'll identify with the [...]

Albums You earn the right to release a collection. Yes, your goal is to create a body of work, but the question is how do you build a fan base that is interested in that work, and how do you grow that fan base.If you are an established act and you are releasing albums essentially [...]

Singles Only! Don't make an album. And whatever you do, don't send it to me! I don't have time. And neither does anybody else. Except for your hard core fan base. Assuming you've got one. And they might not even be interested either.The album was a moneymaker. Let's string together [...]

Madonna In Stadiums It is important to study history, so one does not repeat the same mistakes. Don't Guy Oseary, Arthur Fogel and Madge herself remember U2's PopMart tour? The biggest, baddest band in the world, one beloved by Gen-X'ers everywhere (the true Gen-X, in its forties now, the one from Douglas Coupland's novel), books stadiums [...]

Azoff’s Power As "Hits" continues to chronicle the downfall of the Warner Music Group, one must ask if major labels are even the story anymore.So Warner's numbers tanked. It's not like this is a surprise. After all, CD sales have been going down, down, down for years, unrelentingly. Hell, Warner's market share improved recently, [...]

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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Jun 2006 13:04 UTC (OS News) Microsoft has cut PC-to-PC synchronization from Vista . Vista Beta 2, which is slated to go to as many as two million testers, does not include the P2P synchronization technology.

Judge delivers fast smackdown to RIAA on P2P counterclaim (Ars Technica) Less than a day after it was filed, a federal judge denied the RIAA's motion to dismiss a P2P defendant's counterclaims. The RIAA is now 0 for 2 with that judge. Read More...

Colleges fret RIAA push for state anti-P2P laws (CNET) Capitol Hill politicos aren't alone in considering new antipiracy mandates for schools. Tennessee just passed the first such law, and universities are bracing for other states to follow.

P2P and P4P: The Tangled Web We Weave (E-Commerce Times) It was Monday morning, and Haiyong Xie was running late. His flight to Los Angeles had been delayed, and then he had to face LA's beastly morning traffic. Xie, of Yale University, was on his way to the P2P Media Summit at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel to take part in a panel discussion about the P4P Working Group.

Rogue MP3 Trojan streaks across P2P networks (Addict 3D) Worst viral outbreak in three yearsHundreds of thousands of examples of a new Trojan that poses as a media file have flooded onto P2P networks.…

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No News Month? Folks, I have failed to post an edition of "In The News" this month. There are many reasons why. --Shmoo

Microsoft May Build a Copyright Cop Into Every Zune Microsoft May Build a Copyright Cop Into Every Zune - YET ANOTHER REASON NOT TO BUY A ZUNE.

Nine Inch Nails Album Is Free Online Reznor and band offering new album THE SLIP for free on their website

20-fold increase in filesharing takedown notices Universities Baffled By Massive Surge In RIAA Copyright Notices

RIAA Lawsuits - Stuck at Square One Note: This article is a collective restatement of thoughts I have recently posted as comments at other sites. -- George Ziemann

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College Myths Here is my list of college myths: Myth: Colleges are poor. Myth: Colleges aren't businesses. Myth: You must go to college to get otherwise secret info to succeed in life. Myth: Name brand colleges justify higher prices. Myth: Colleges care first and

World's Smallest Wifi Phone - Nokia 6300i (and yes, it runs Gizmo5!) I want to hear what you think about wifi phones! Take our super quick survey and get a chance to win a Nokia 6300i wifi phone! Nokia just released the 6300i mobile phone. At first glance it looks like a small but unremarkable candy bar shaped phone. B

Defend Your Digital Rights - Support MP3tunes Let me start by saying that as the CEO of MP3tunes I appreciate all your support over the last few years. Our customer's suggestions and patience have helped us build the Locker system we have today. We just launched AutoSync -- making the management of

Fast IM, SMS, and Email on ANY mobile phone/PC in one program - Gizmo5 Like many people, my computing time is shifting from my PC to my phone (many young people are skipping the PC step altogether). What's bothersome about the phone is that it's slow to handle all my communications. Some people communicate via SMS, some via

Court Ruling Denies EMI Access to Millions of Personal MP3 Files A New York Judge has denied a request by EMI to force MP3tunes turn over all music files for its 125,000 users. For now, this means the contents of personal music Lockers will remain private.