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		<title>Boxee Cancels Their HTPC</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/953</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last version of Boxee for computers (as opposed to the embedded version) has been announced; notice that I did not say the &#34;latest&#34; version.  I am not sure why the Boxee team are abandoning their users, but I will definitely be looking into other solutions since they no longer seem to care about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last.fm and Ping</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/879</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does anyone actually use Last.fm for more than scrobbling?

I did when I first subscribed and they allowed me to listen to full tracks of my choice on demand.  In more recent times, they have been removing playback features to focus on their scrobbling service.  This change makes sense for Last.fm as they have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unusual band names</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/702</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Death Cab for Cutie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dio]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following are 10 of the most bizarre band names that I have encountered.  I am sure that there are stranger &#8211; or at least as strange &#8211; band names, but either I am not coming up with them at the moment, or I have never heard of them.

Many groups name themselves after one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is everyone so friendly?</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/675</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs and Sites]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eff-Bahm]]></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>The music of Gen Con</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/668</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/668#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people think of Gen Con as just being about role-playing games, but there are many other types of games represented as well as anime, science fiction, and even music.  I have attended Gen Con for the last two years and each year there have been two groups, a pianist / keyboardist, and many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Late article on the late Michael Jackson</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/629</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Mammoth Book of Zombie Comics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Zombie Survival Guide]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I realize that Michael Jackson died a week ago and this this post is really late.  However, I did not have anything new to add to the already insane level of activity on the Internet surrounding his death at that time.  A book I picked up recently changed that.

I recently purchased &#34;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free mash-up albums</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/596</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/596#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A PLUS D]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A+D]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Best of Bootie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently while doing my monthly check through coworkers&#8217; iTunes shares looking for music that I haven&#8217;t been exposed to yet, I stumbled across a fantastic series of mash-up albums.  A+D has released a &#34;Best of Bootie&#34; album each year since 2005 containing the best tunes played at their mash-up parties during that year.

What&#8217;s even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music in Waiting Rooms</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/530</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/530#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something that has never made sense to me is why all doctors&#8217; waiting rooms seem to tune in to the same genre of radio station.  This phenomenon first sunk in last week while at my doctor&#8217;s office, but thinking back, I realized that all of the doctors &#8211; including general practitioners, dentists, and specialists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Literal videos</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/425</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/425#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[online]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://music.ballweb.org/blog/?p=425</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been meaning to write an article about the relatively new phenomena of literal videos for a couple of months, but haven&#8217;t gotten around to it.  I realize that by now, everyone with an Internet connection has already heard of this concept, but oh well.

For those two or three people left in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple and the music industry disagree</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/389</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/389#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[online]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://music.ballweb.org/blog/?p=389</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, MSN published an article concerning changes in the way online music is being distributed and the disagreements between Apple and the music industry.  The industry wants songs to be DRM encumbered, while Apple does not.  Also the industry wishes for Apple to raise prices, while Apple &#8211; for obvious competitive reasons &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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