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Bye-Bye, (CD) Baby!
From Derek Sivers, Founder of CD Baby and Host Baby There's a beautiful quote from Abraham Maslow: “Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day." You might have seen in ...
Online Indie Music Retailer CD Baby Acquired by Disc Makers
Portland, Ore. - CD Baby, an online retailer of CDs for over 242,000 independent artists, has been acquired by CD and DVD manufacturer Disc Makers for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 1997, Portland, Ore.-based CD Baby charges a one-time setup fee of $35 per CD, allows artists to set their own prices, and retains $4 of ...
Google Moving Forward with Yahoo Ad Deal
Google Inc., facing a U.S. Justice Department probe of its search-advertising partnership with Yahoo Inc., will proceed with the agreement by early October, Bloomberg said. “We are going to move forward," Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Thursday in Denver. “We are in the process of talking to the ...
Comcast to Cap Monthly Internet Use
Comcast Corp., the nation's second-largest Internet service provider, Thursday said it would set an official limit on the amount of data subscribers can download and upload each month. On Oct. 1, the cable company will update its user agreement to say that users will be allowed 250 gigabytes of traffic per month, the company announced on ...
Man Arrested for Posting Guns 'N' Roses Songs
LOS ANGELES - Federal officials on Wednesday arrested a man on suspicion of violating copyright laws for placing songs on the Internet from an unreleased album by rock band Guns N' Roses. Kevin Cogill, 27, who has no known direct affiliation with Guns N' Roses, posted nine tracks from the band's upcoming album “Chinese Democracy" on ...
Greenbox Energy-Monitoring Tech Starts Trials
For most people in the US, there's no easy way to ascertain why the power bill is so high. There's a meter outside the house or in the basement that measures energy consumption, but why it reads the way it does remains a mystery, as do techniques for reducing those bills. But power doesn't need to ...
Democrats Criticize McCain's 'Dial-up Campaign'
Leading Democrats on Tuesday attacked the Bush administration's broadband policy and the technology track record of GOP presidential hopeful John McCain, while leading tech companies pushed for a more tech-savvy and innovative federal government. “The Obama campaign is the broadband campaign and the McCain campaign is the dial-up campaign," said Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat and ...
Jacqui Dankworth Launches Exclusive New Website
The UK's leading vocalist Jacqui Dankworth, daughter of Dame Cleo Laine & Sir John Dankworth, has just launched her new website at jacquidankworth.com. The website has been constructed in two halves. The first half is open to everyone who simply visits the site, but the second half is only open to those who join Jacqui's information ...
New Jazz Blog: Survival of the Cool
There's a new jazz blog in town, and it's just a little bit crazy. Join me, jazzfreak11, at my blog Survival of the Cool for posts about anything and everything. From spray sunscreen to puppet shows during drum solos to hip-hop songs with jazz samples and CD reviews, this blog has everything. Read opinions on all ...
Megapixels and the Camera World
Megapixels, like megahertz before them, are the big consumer swindle of the camera world. The first thing anyone asks me when they see my Canon G9 is “How many megapixels does it have?" My answer, 12, causes a swoon. The trouble is, I neither want nor need that many. My Nikon D60, with just 10 megapixels, ...
