Spotify gets all Social and Local

The brilliant Spotify has just released a new version with enhanced features enabling links to Facebook 'Friends' and ability to listen to your own MP3s... Is this now the genuine iTunes challenger?

More info on Techcrunch here.

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Allotment pre-production line...

It had been planted in good soil by abundant water so that it would produce branches, bear fruit and become a splendid vine... Ezekiel (quotation, NOT context!)

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Eddie Izzard - Brilliant Britain

Well, whoever you vote for you have to agree this is excellent AND positive art?!!

Love it! h/t Martin Wroe

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O for a shout of sacred joy

The last verse of Isaac Watts hymn: -

The British islands are the Lord’s,
There Abraham’s God is known;
While powers and princes, shields and swords,
Submit before His throne.

The Day the Music Died...

Last night the Digital Economy Bill went through in the 'wash up' in Parliament yesterday...

Be very afraid, you may become liable if your internet connection is not secure.

It is a huge folly which will mean broadband costs will have to rise to allow service providers to pay for the extra work and possible litigation.

Read more here: Nightmare of unintended consequences.

Steve Lawson comes up trumps again, with his blog response to the Musicians Union.

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Some of it's just transcendental...

A little Easter Sunday treat! The Peter Gabriel cover of Lou Reed's 'Power of the heart' from the 'Scratch my Back' album... enjoy!

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