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Revision3 Launches A New Underground Music Show XLR8R TV

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XLR8R TVReadWriteWeb is reporting that Revision3, the IPTV network founded last year in part by Digg’s Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose, has announced a new show to their already large line up. XLR8R TV (pronounced “accelerator” TV) is an underground music show that they hope will attract an untapped niche crowd as well as the attention of advertisers.

According to the show’s homepage:

XLR8R TV is a monthly show featuring interviews with and performances by the groundbreaking musicians and artists you’ll find in the pages of XLR8R magazine.

XLR8R magazine and website publications are dedicated to music, style, culture and technology. Founded in 1993, their scope was on electronic music and has since broadened to encompass the hip-hop, indie rock, reggae and dancehall music genres.

XLR8R TV will cover the same content covered on their website and magazine, but will use the show to shed light on emerging artists. A new episode of XLR8R TV will be released on the 1st of every month, with an extended edition in the middle of each month to include three music videos from artists they cover. The show is hosted on location, and will be comprised of interviews of music artists and their fans, and of course will include music by those artists.

You can watch their first episode here.

Digg Goes Presidential

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digg Digg today announced the inclusion of two new subcategories. I expected the addition of the “Microsoft” subcategory of Technology News, a reincarnation of the Windows section that was removed from the much earlier versions of Digg. It was only a matter of time before they realized that Digg needed to reintroduce a section to complement the Apple section.

More importantly though, and a bit unexpectedly, Digg announced a temporary subcategory under World & Business News called, “US Elections 2008.” This is surely in response to the overwhelming popularity of the Politics sections on Digg, which is evident in the past month’s Digg Presidential Statistics.

With the addition of the US Elections 2008 section, Digg only further defines it’s role as a news medium and will join the likes of YouTube in its growing influence in the 2008 presidential election.

Digg Presidential Statistics

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digg A recent study conducted over the last 30 days of Digg News submissions shows the amount and kind of attention each 2008 hopeful is receiving. You can see as the author points out, a clear organized burying of Ron Paul submissions, due to allegations that supporters of Ron Paul are spamming Digg.

It should be expected that 2008 hopefuls will keep a close eye on their support in social media sites like Digg and YouTube, as such sites can be great measures of their popularity and the popularity of their positions, especially among the younger voting population. However it should be noted, both by supporters and the candidates themselves, that using Digg to push themselves in an unfairly positive manner will get noticed and cause an adverse affect on their popularity among the community, which is proving to have a greater influence as a news medium as time goes on (the contrary holds true as well).

Looking at the number of submissions each 2008 hopefuls have received in the last 30 days, you’ll notice that it highly correlates with both name recognition and the amount each is covered in the press.

The list below is in ascending order according to number of stories submitted.

Here’s a link to the original published source.

10 New Ways To Make Money Online

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Do you ever feel like Peter Gibbons in Office Space? Do you want to be liberated from being a zombie to the corporate cubicle lifestyle? Then maybe you should consider making your living online in the new economy. Web Worker Daily has compiled a great detailed list of the 10 new ways to make money online in the new economy.

Here’s an look at each method mentioned:

  1. Offer your professional expertise in an online marketplace.
  2. Sell photos on stock photography sites.
  3. Blog for pay.
  4. Or start your own blog network.
  5. Provide service and support for open source software.
  6. Online life coaching.
  7. Virtually assist other web workers.
  8. Build services atop Amazon Web Services.
  9. Write reviews for pay or perks.
  10. Become a virtual gold farmer.

Visit Web Worker Daily for a far more detailed overview of these methods, including links to in depth articles on each method.

Show The RIAA They Can’t Bite The Hand That Feeds Them: Boycott

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Gizmodo is proposing that everyone put their money where their mouths are, and boycott the RIAA during the month of March. They make an important point; we are in effect feeding them the money they need for their lawsuits. The power of the purse is no new idea, and can be an effective method to send a message, it is simply incumbent upon the parties affected to organize and assert their power.

This doesn’t mean you should necessarily start pirating everything. There are still legal ways of sticking it to the RIAA, as Gizmodo points out:

Firstly, I encourage everyone to purchase music from unsigned bands and bands on independent record labels. There are tons of great artists out there, many of which you’re probably already a fan of, that have nothing to do with the RIAA. Buy their records at eMusic, an online store that sells independent tunes in beautiful, DRM-free MP3 format.

Secondly, you can still support RIAA-signed bands without buying their music. Go see them live and buy their merchandise; they get a hell of a lot more money from that then they do from album sales. And hey, you could benefit from getting out more, couldn’t you?

If you are unsure whether or not an album is put out by an RIAA label, the handy RIAA Radar will clear everything up for you. They have both a search engine and a great bookmarklet, so be sure to get yourself hooked up.

Actions speak louder than words. It’s time we stand up and take action against the unethical and often illegal practices of both governmental and corporate entities that have, for too long, gone uncontested.