Thursday Shards:
My del.icio.us folder is piling up so I thought I’d empty these out before the festivities begin this weekend.
*Record labels are now delaying release of legal downloads in order to spur on sales of new albums. Sounds like desperation to me because as Tim Quirk of Rhapsody puts it “very single track that you are worried about is available for free whether you want it to be or not.”
*An assload of articles in US News & World Report about the current state of the publishing business (via Readerville).
*R.I.P Octavia Butler. Same to Kirby Puckett.
*Trader Joes is heading to NYC.
*Jesse James Garrett on why Myspace’s hideous design actually works (via Matt Haughey).
*The Get Human Detabase. On a crusade for improved customer service.
*Urban Noir on NPR. Which rhymes. Oh and features my friend Laura Lippman (via Tigerbeat).
*Now that I’m in Austin, posting switches to audio for the duration of the festival.
Then it begins again…