The FCC is considering requiring boredbroadcasters dedicate a certain amount of airtime to the indie kids. The problems with this plan are too many to list (okay, here are some: what is independent music, how will this help independent music, stop whining about corporate radio, how would this possibly stop payola) but that won’t stop an FCC that is 99 percent clueless, and a music industry (including the so-called independents) that is 100 percent clueless.
Just Wait Until They All Have Kids And Move To The Suburbs
The UN released a report saying that by 2008, most of the world’s people will be living in cities. Wow. The article focuses on the problems associated with that (e.g., food production, infrastructure, health care) but there is a million other ways to journey from this report.
Blog Transferred
Hopefully everyone notices that this blog has moved. Hopefully everyone will update their RSS feeds. Hopefully everything works fine. Hopefully people will tell me about any problems.
Here’s how I moved it, since WordPress makes it tought to do: exported old blog sql db via phpMyAdmin, used mysql command to import new one, went through imported db and changed all url references to this site, tested everything out.
Still to do: reinstall plug ins, Google Analytics, etc.