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		<title>Weekly Observations: 2011 Week 52 and 2012 Week 1</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/956</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Best of Bootie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boxee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HTPC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Tea Party]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With last weekend being the new year, I did not have a chance to post anything.  So, I have combined last week&#8217;s news with this week&#8217;s for another double-article.

It strikes me as odd that one of my local radio stations played Christmas music through nearly the entirety of Advent, but stops immediately after the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tubeify Review</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/886</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/886#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs and Sites]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Banshee]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Last.fm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tubeify]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tubeify is a new &#34;web 2.0&#34; service that is a combines several music related services into a useful online music experience.  It is still missing a couple of features in my opinion, but it appears to still be in Beta as you have to have an invite to join, so I expect more features [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last.fm Widget for Facebook 1.01 released</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/804</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/804#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs and Sites]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[timezone]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yep, that&#8217;s right, there&#8217;s a new version of Music Discussions&#8217; Last.fm Widget for Facebook.  Version 1.01 introduces a new feature requested by several users.

Last.fm returns the date in UTC format however, this can be inconvenient if you are not living in the UK.  The widget now looks up the current profile viewer&#8217;s timezone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last.fm widget for Facebook</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/787</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/787#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs and Sites]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday night, my Last.fm widget for Facebook went beta.  If you would like to try it out, you can add  it here.

If Facebook presents you with a prompt asking to allow the widget to access your e-mail address, say no.  I have no interest in starting a mailing list, or annoying people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Interview</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/779</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/779#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs and Sites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Lehman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Street Level Doppler]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://music.ballweb.org/blog/?p=779</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have added a new feature to Music Reviews: interviews!
In this first interview, I talk with Chris Lehman of Street Level Doppler.  I hope to interview a couple of more artists in the coming months and intend on adding some other new features to the site in the near future, so check back often.
]]></description>
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		<title>Promotion from Roadrunner Records</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/774</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/774#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs and Sites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Endgame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Megadeth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roadrunner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just bought Endgame from Megadeth and was pleasantly surprised to find a slip of paper advertising a promotion from Roadrunner Records inside.  Before I continue, I want to mention that this album will be on next month&#8217;s music that I intend to review list and it may be reviewed quickly as I tend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is everyone so friendly?</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/675</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/675#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs and Sites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eff-Bahm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamendo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magnatune]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I had received three friend requests on Jamendo. This, in and of itself, is not unusual; however, there are a couple of things that confuse me.

First, I really haven&#8217;t been in my Jamendo account since I created it so I am not an active community member.  And, as near as I can tell, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last.fm&#8217;s unwise decision</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/652</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/652#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs and Sites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[API]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banshee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GStreamer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Last.fm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oss]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://music.ballweb.org/blog/?p=652</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[*** Please read Last.fm&#8217;s response below ***
Last.fm has changed their API; for those who are not programmers, an API (application programming interface) is a set of routines that allow a program to make requests to another program or web service. In and of itself, changing an API is not a bad thing and, in many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six free albums from Amazon</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/611</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/611#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs and Sites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arts & Crafts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barsuk Records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Be on the Lookout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Remix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ropeadope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sampler]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon just released six new free sampler CD&#8217;s for download.  Granted, one of these CD&#8217;s is comedy, but the others are all music.

This equates to 51 new songs for your collection.  One of the albums (Open Remix) is a remix sampler, which, as its name implies, contains remixes.  Three of the albums [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music jokes</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/606</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/606#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs and Sites]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just found a hillarious list of music jokes filled with music humor for those who like one-liners and &#34;why is a&#8230;?&#34; format jokes.  Although there are some longer jokes later on as well as quotes from famous musicians.

Some of the jokes in the first section may only make sense to those who have [...]]]></description>
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