Scotland Is Committing Suicide - and Good Riddance!

Seeded on Tue Dec 18, 2007 9:09 PM EST (Daily Aspect)

All intelligent people have left Scotland for greener pastures. Those that remain are choking to death on ignorance, laziness, and greed.

scotland, great-britain, united-kingdom, world-news, domestic-violence, socialism, political-correctness

SoundExchange: Cable Radio more equal than Internet Radio

Seeded on Wed Nov 7, 2007 3:46 AM EST (Music Business Times)

SoundExchange formally proposed that cable radio services pay royalties to sound recording copyright owners and recording artists at a virtually identical rate that SoundExchange and the RIAA rejected for Internet Radio.

entertainment, recording-industry-association, soundexchange, royalty-board, savenetradio-campaign, internet-radio-royalties

Guitar Hero III: The Legends of Rock - sales top $115 million in first week

Seeded on Wed Nov 7, 2007 2:44 AM EST (Music Business Times)

Sales for Guitar Hero III: The legends of Rock exceeded $115 million within seven days of the game's North American release, making it the largest single product launch in the company's history. The Guitar Hero franchise has remained the #1 best-selling franchise in the U.S.

entertainment, slash, guitar-hero, pearl-jam, the-rolling-stones, beastie-boys, guns-n-roses, aerosmith, tom-morello, legends-of-rock

Nine Inch Nails releases Remix-It-Yourself DVD-ROM with new CD

Seeded on Thu Nov 1, 2007 6:11 AM EDT (Music Business Times)

Perhaps for the first time, the master multi-tracks for every cut on a major album are being made available for the public to remix. The new Nine Inch Nails CD package for Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D includes a DVD-ROM containing every track from Year Zero in multi-track format (Mac and PC).

entertainment, nine-inch-nails, saul-williams, joy-division, trent-reznor, stephen-morris, kronos-quartet, olof-dreijer

Zazzle enables bands and digital content creators to compete with marketing pros

Seeded on Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:17 AM EDT (Music Business Times)

Zazzle's new features give bands and other user-generated digital content creators a great opportunity to market themselves online with the same competence as major labels and merchandisers.

entertainment, music-merchandising, band-merchandising, online-music-marketing, model-realviews, dark-apparel

Producer Phil Ramone remembers five decades of making hit records

Seeded on Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:36 AM EDT (Music Business Times)

Ramone shares five decades of trade secrets on creating hit music in his book "Making Records: The Scenes Behind the Music." From his early days recording jazz and commercial jingles at A&R to his first studio and eventual legendary producer status

arts, music-producer, phil-ramone, billy-joels, frank-sinatras, scenes-behind, hit-records

The Height of Ludicricity

Seeded on Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:58 PM EDT (Daily Aspect)

The most spot on description of Chris Matthews ever.

politics, chris-matthews, hit-the-nail-on-the-donkey, spot-on

What General Sanchez Also Said That the Mainstream Press Censored

Seeded on Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:28 AM EDT ()

If you thought General Sanchez blistered the Bush administration's conduct of the war in Iraq, you formed your opinion from what the mainstream press reported. Unless you heard his entire speech on C-Span, you have no idea of who got blistered.

media, iraq, politics, ethics, truth, miltary

Tennessee law enforcement is a smoke screen for fascism

Seeded on Fri Sep 28, 2007 9:07 PM EDT (Daily Aspect)

Gestapo tactics to snuff out Tenneessee smokers. Tsk!

us-news, legal-lunacy, huff-and-puff-and-blow-their-house-down

Proving Colombia University's Bollinger is a fool (as if proof were needed)

Seeded on Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:10 PM EDT (Daily Aspect)

Despite his withering introduction of Iran's little president, Columbia University's president Lee Bollinger didn't and couldn't undo the damage caused by providing Osama bin Adolph a platform.

politics, mahmoud-ahmadinejad, lee-bollinger, illiberal-liberals, round-em-all-up, colombia-university-chancellor

BBC's leftwing bias admitted by former producer.

Seeded on Sun Aug 12, 2007 7:20 AM EDT (The Times)

The only people surprised by this revelation will be the writer's former colleagues in the BBC and British press. The surprise will not be the charge of bias; it will be that one of their own dared pull the curtain back.

media, politics, bbc, bias, liberal, leftwing

When Elites Pander to the Smelly Class

Seeded on Mon Jan 15, 2007 7:57 PM EST (thebusiness.co.uk)

Fundamentals are fundamentals. Sounds dumb to state the obvious, but what's obvious to those who know the fundamentals of a science or methodology isn't obvious to those who don't.

politics, chancellor-gordon-brown, british-industry, in-britain, dublin-based-irish

Death of Gayionna Narcissus Newsom Hemba

Seeded on Tue May 23, 2006 9:45 PM EDT (-)

The trend in abbreviated obituaries (unless the bereaved can pay $17 per line) is another arrow in the quiver of reasons local newspapers decline in importance and circulation.

death, mississippi, news, us-news, obituary