Steve from the Wicked Good Podcast points us all to this LA Times article. Short version: the RIAA wants more money, and is tired of radio freeloading off of its content library. They want to extract performance royalties from terrestrial radio just as they want for every other form of media in which their artists [...]

I was talking last night with a good friend about something that popped up in Google Earth. There’s a layer that automatically got added - the crisis in Darfur, all the flashpoints in the conflict, and the topic drifted to - how do you make a difference? Ultimately, how do you effect real, lasting change? [...]