Well I say liveblog, more notes that I’m making on the EEE as I fly, hence thenewer posts are at the bottom of this one. I’ll uploaded them when I get somewhere that’s not 6 miles up in the air, free Wi-fi enabled planes this 777 is not. (All times PST). 0500: The American Airlines...

Image via CrunchBase The UK / EU web is buzzing with the news that Youtube (Google) has started to block or remove UK music videos because they have not been able to strike a new music licensing deal with the PRS-For-Music, the UK rights society which represents the songwriters and the publishers. I...

Note: This is the first post from Jason Feinberg, MediaShift's new music correspondent. With his background in online marketing, Jason will be sharing his insights into how artists can best utilize new technology in connecting with fans. There was a time when celebrity musicians were positioned as u...

In preparation for my travels this March, I’m making sure I have a bundle of playlists ready to transfer onto my MP3 Player of choice (likely to be the gen 2 iPod Nano), and one of them is proving interesting in terms of why music is so powerful. The playlist replicates one of my old C90 audio tap...

Last night I caught this "tweet" from Zadi Diaz, the amazing vlogger behind Epic Fu. I remember my first album (embarrassingly, it was Menudo), but not my first download. Do you? It made me think about how the web and digital music has both opened up music discovery, and yet how we may have lost som...

The second week of Pirate Bay vs Sweden is upon us, and what will it bring? Pirate ship. Photograph: mikebaird/Flickr/Some rights reserved Firstly, some great lists. TorrentFreak , which has been excelling itself with comprehensive coverage of the trial, follows up on  comments by co-defendant ...

The news cycle spins fast and flimsy these days. Late Friday night, TechCrunch posted an unsourced rumour that CBS-owned Last.fm handed a "giant dump" of user data to the RIAA. The music org was said to have requested the data, which could be used to find users who are listening to as-yet-unreleased...

At the BBC Internet Blog, James Cridland has posted Better audio for BBC Radio online, which says: "It's been some time in coming, but today marks the next step in improving the audio quality of BBC Radio online." In brief, the BBC's national radio stations are now available in higher quality AAC or...

TechRadar has a trenchant interview with Steve Green* about DAB digital audio broadcasting and the UK's approach, which has been put forth by the Digital Radio Working Group (DRWG). Steve is a columnist for Hi-Fi World magazine and runs the Digital Radio Tech site. I think of him as being on the ext...

First it was YouTube vs. Viacom in a battle that is still going to this day. Now Warner Music enters the ring, insisting that any music from Warner artists be muted from YouTube clips or, in any cases, the clips have been removed altogether. This includes informal performances by kids on their perso...