A new blog is officially online for discussing music on the Web, with debates on payments to artists and issues related to copyright. It's called a2f2a (artists to fans to artists), and here's the mission statement as stated on the blog page: (continue...)

Trent Reznor decided to quit social media, or Twitter at least, as you may already know. As he stated quite clearly, he finally found out that "the problem with really getting engaged in a community is getting through the clutter and noise." (continue...)

The new BBC web platform for music is online, offering some kind of mash-up presentations of the artists that make use of semantic resources. The main source for retrieving and mashing the informations (together with sites like Wikipedia and MySpace) is MusicBrainz, a "user-maintained community music meta-database", which offers the end-user the possibility to edit the data............

1. Open File Sharing: users must be free to share files on their hard drives with each other. 2. Open File Formats: content must be distributed in MP3 and other formats with NO digital rights management protection. ......

In the music business Corey Smith can be considered a case study, as he has been capable of raising millions of dollars giving away his music for free and building at the same time a closer relationship with his fans.....