Is Music distribution changing?

The music industry is still unsure if they should change anything in their business model or move into completely new territory.
This article in “FAST Company” with statements from the music industry is showing that there is some movement happening: Fast Talk: Sounds of the Future

And new music matching services are coming up and grow in usage: Last.FM or Pandora (Article in FAST Company: Algorhythm and Blues)

But until now mostly the only real change that we have seen remains the added copy protection to the music disc….. Or?

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RSS Reader

From time to time I would like to present the different web tools I am using. Feedback very welcome! Today it’s time for: RSS-Feed Reader.

I have tested the RSS Reader bloglines.com for the past few days and do highly recommend it. I do use the reader to have all my RSS Feeds in view and I am able to read then anytime an Internet connection is at hand.

I run it along with the RSS Reader of Thunderbird. Until now bloglines.com wins. Due to higher flexibility and better integration to all the other nifty web tools. What do you use?

More tools do follow.

Cheers,
Marco

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