Craigslist By “Weird Al” Yankovic

Weird Al Yankovic’s latest song lampoon’s Craigslist and is an homage to The Doors (based on the song Soul Kitchen) and featuring the psychedelic band’s keyboardist, Ray Manzarek. Sample lyrics: Well, we shared a quick glance Saturday at the mall I never took a chance, never approached you at all You were a blonde half-Asian with a bad [...]

A Social Network For Two

Ze Frank’s take on social networking:

Fair Use: Let’s Go Crazy

A California judge has ruled that copyright owners must consider whether their content has been used within the parameters of fair use before issuing a take down notice. The ruling is pursuant to a lawsuit filed by a Pennsylvania woman in response to Universal Music’s request to take down the following video of her child [...]

Prince Gets A Little Grabby

The Purple One performed some serious copyright overreach recently when he had YouTube remove a fan-recorded video of his perfomance of Radiohead’s song Creep at Coachella, the AP reports. Fans looking for the video at YouTube weren’t the only one’s pissed off to find the clip blocked; Radiohead was too. AP quotes Radiohead’s Thom Yorke [...]

An Ode To Digg (And Its Supporting Online Campaign)

Kina Grannis loves to Digg.   Two Weeks For Kina    Originally uploaded by kasuya She loves to Digg so much, in fact, that she’s written a very clever and catchy song about her Digg love. Clearly, Kina’s not alone. But she’s taken it another step by entering her song, Gotta Digg, [...]

Music Marketing Through Blogs, or How I Tuned Out & Discovered New Bands

05.26.06 @ The Wiltern, Los Angeles CA Originally uploaded by voxtrot I was trolling Upcoming.org last night to see what shows were coming up and it occurred to me just how important MP3 blogs have become for marketing music and bands. As a frustrated musician, I love music. As those of us who are passionate about our [...]

Online Videos – Demographics

If you haven’t yet noticed, online video has really taken off this year and it has everything to do with the success of Apple’s video iPod. Once Apple introduced the product and announced that NBC would offer TV shows for download to the iPod at $1.99 a pop, the floodgates opened. In January Apple CEO Steve [...]

Speedcasting

It is often the simplest ideas that are the most brilliant. So it is with Minnesota Public Radio’s "speedcasts." Speedcasts are, logically enough, simply podcasts speeded up just fast enough so that they are understandable yet cut down the amount of listening time significantly. To the tune of squashing a 53 minute program into 29 [...]

Product Placement In Madden NFL 06

In 1994, the neo-punk band Green Day broke onto the popular music scene with their album Dookie, several songs from which enjoyed quite a bit of airtime on radio stations nationwide. Since then, the band has not enjoyed simliar commecial success until last year’s run-away success, American Idiot. That success could very well be due [...]

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