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Weblogs somehow manage to repeat inaccurate information. A lot of people are complaining about Alan Greenspan’s suggestions on how to re-jig the broken social security system. Many have had a knee jerk reaction to his proposals - which basically boil down to this: leave the current generation of boomers alone, but the younger folks including [...]

How not to pay over $400/hour for public relations services… reads the email in my InBox. It is from some dude called Mark Burke at NMC Partners, an LA-based PR agency. This is how the email starts:
bq. A research report by Los Angeles-based NBC-TV 4 found that one well known large PR firm had been [...]

T-Mobile has tied up with German CD retailer WOM Media Network to launch a legal music download store for German consumers..the new site is an offshoot of the established download store Musicload, and will sell tracks from labels including BMG, Edel Music, EMI, Kontor, Sony Music and Warner Music German.
The tracks cost 99 Euro cents…more [...]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a report outlining its favored solution to the music file-sharing controversy…The EFF white paper recommends that the music industry adopt a model similar to that used by radio stations today, known as voluntary collective licensing. The proposal suggests a way that artists and copyright holders can get paid and [...]

Hardly, really…A bland interview with WalMart.com’s exec on its music service:
Q: Will we see a Wal-Mart-branded music player - an iPod killer?
A. We’re always looking at opportunities to offer our customers products and services that they have a use for, so that’s one possibility…

Microsoft is desperately trying to get a toe hold in the digital music business and is now backing any all comers. The New York Post reports that Barons of Redmond are secretly backing Napster and its store. “They certainly don’t want to see [Apple] become so dominant it becomes the de facto service,” said Michael [...]