The Trent Reznor produced debut CD by Saul Williams, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust, is now available as a free download. An option is available to purchase the CD for a nominal fee, too. Here‚Äôs what Williams has to say about the new release, and the role of middlemen in the world of […]

Podbean, which describes itself as a podcast social subscribing site, has introduced an embeddable multimedia podcast player that can be used to put your podcast on Facebook, MySpace and blogs. The free player supports both videos and audios. It’s designed so that you can embed the player once, and Podbean updates the player content whenever […]

Major League Baseball (MLB) has struck out with at least one baseball mega-fan, author and blogger Allan Wood. He got thrown a curve ball when MLB changed their online video service, dumping their DRM provider and rendering fans’ older video purchases unplayable. Wood’s a vocal, major-league fan of baseball. He’s written a book about Babe […]

Opportunity is knocking for bloggers, podcasters and video podcasters interested in making money online. The amount of money spent in the US on online advertising will nearly double in the next four years, going from $21.4 billion in 2007 to $42 billion in 2011, according to a report by eMarketer. This represents an increase from […]

Zune Podcast Programming Manager Rob Greenlee sends word that podcasters will be able to add their podcast to Microsoft’s Zune Marketplace podcast directory starting on November 13th. We will be launching our Zune Marketplace Podcast Directory with approximately 1,000 podcast feeds shortly. The reason we are doing this is to seed the catalog with a […]

Podcasting pioneer Dave Winer writes on his blog that Leopard “is not a good operating system release.” Winer compares the Leopard update to Windows: “It’s that unpleasant to use. It disappears for long periods of time. Systems that didn’t used to crash now crash regularly. On one system three hard disks were rendered unusable, and […]

NPR and 12 NPR Member stations recognized for music programming have launched NPR Music, a new, free, comprehensive multimedia music discovery Web site. The site features on-air and online content aggregated from NPR and the participating stations as well as original-to-NPR Music materials such as interviews, reviews, blogs and live performances. The site is already […]

Australian vocalist Kylie Minogue appears to be the first mega-diva to launch her own social networking site. KylieKonnect.com lets fans blog, upload images and video and interact with other users. By letting fans blog and post videos, the site has the potential to be the locus of attention for Kylie fans. Currently the site is […]

comScore today released a study of online sales of In Rainbows, the new record album from the band Radiohead. The album‚Äôs release has challenged the music industry‚Äôs traditional distribution and sales model by allowing consumers to determine the price they are willing to pay. Unfortunately for the future of musicians everywhere, nearly 2/3rds of Radioheads […]

Ze Frank offers his take on the writer’s strike….