Friday, April 26, 2002

NOW With Bill Moyers had a good bit about the decline of commercial radio and the role of voice tracking and Clear Channel. Link: Now with Bill Moyers Virtual Radio / Clear Channel Transcript (from Moyers) NPR's All Things Considerd (radio report on same story) Future of Music Coalition has a VERY deeply researched article about CARP and the prospects for webcasting of music CARP Fact Sheet

Wednesday, April 24, 2002

A 1960s-era recording artist says he can't get Sony to pay royalties, so his psychedelic pop might as well be free. Musician to Napster judge: Let my music go (Wired) (pop-up warning)

Tuesday, April 23, 2002

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The EFF has an interesting blog called "Consensus at Lawyerpoint?". Being a true account of the undertakings of the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group (The Broadcast Protection Discussion Group is an obscure group of Hollywood studios and technology companies that are negotiating a "consensus" for any gadget or code that can touch the studios' product. Once they're done, they want to go to Washington and ask Congress and/or the FCC to give their "standard" the force of law.)

Friday, April 19, 2002

Dave Grohl & Krist Novoselic want Courtney's head examined. Is she addled now (as they say), or was she addled then? (as she says). Link Defendants' Motion to Compel Mental Examination of Courtney Love

Wednesday, April 17, 2002

Digital piracy is all the rage when it comes to assigning blame for declines of record sales. But an increasing number of critics point to the labels as the real culprits. Link: Slagging Over Sagging CD Sales (*Wired)

Friday, April 12, 2002

Oh, the humanity! The humanity..! 37 Record-Store Clerks Feared Dead In Yo La Tengo Concert Disaster (Onion)
Good, in depth article article about Moby. Interview and details of the forthcoming LP and recording process. I remember selling records to him when i worked in a record store in Greenwich CT in 1985/6. He was odd then too. All By Himself (NYT, free reg. required) (warning, pop-unders)

Thursday, April 11, 2002

134 music acts, 134 different contract riders. See which of your favourites insits on a wide variety of sex toys in the dressing room. The Smoking Guns' "Backstage Pass" (stuffed olives need not apply)

Wednesday, April 10, 2002

Wanna really scare yourself? Look at this lot and figure out how many you own... frightening, huh?! Link: 50 Coolest Records (if you have the complete list without the ads and commerce, i'll post it)
It's every parent's nightmare - discovering your offspring is a secret heavy metal addict. Dido fan Jim White on how his teenage son tried to turn him on to the aural delights of thrash/death. Link:Never mind the Sex Pistols, here's the bollocks... (Guardian UK)

Tuesday, April 09, 2002

Brilliant Digital's spyware finally blows up its "partner". Link: Download.com Removes KaZaa (MP3newswire.net)
WOW! Looks like the RIAA has learned a thing or two from the BSA. Recording industry collects $1 million fine (Reuters)

Sunday, April 07, 2002

Welcome to the PoOPlist website portal / blog/ whatever. This site links to the pooplists from 2001. You can send folks the URL instead of sending them your precious hard copy. I have attempted to preserve the formatting of lists as much as possible. Some of the handwritten lists are presented as .jpeg image files. I have opened the blog to all the folks on the PoOPlist. This means that members will be able to post stories and links. If i have not sent you an email invite, please use one of the email links and ask me for a invite so that you can upload stuff to the blog. If you know of someone who might be interested, send them to me and tell me you sent them. Of coure, you'll be vouching for them! Members will be able edit their own posts, but not others'. As the admin, i'll be able to delete members or posts. Each post carries a "comment" tag at the bottom. By clicking here anyone anywhere will be able to talk back about the original post. Simple HTML is allowed in these comments. Subjects for the blog are up to the participants. I expect that it will be mostly music related, but if you have a story you think others would enjoy or benefit from, go for it! There is a link to my "In Lieu Of Radio..." blog so you can see what a blog might look like. There are lots more examples of blos on the left-nav part of Blogger.com. That is also a very good place to find out how all this works. Once you get the hang of it, it's really easy! The general formatting for posts is <a href="insert the URL here" target="_blank"><b> write out the title you want to give the link </b></a> There is an easy "Blog This!" feature on the page How To: Blog This! (Warning! This feature requires javascript) Any questions? Just use one of the email links on this page