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	<description>Adventures of a Digital Music Startup</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>50 Awesome MySpace Band Profiles</title>
		<link>http://foxymelody.com/blog/?p=106</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a great article from Mashable.com. My personal favorite is the site for Citizen Cope. His site does a great job of cleaning up MySpace&#8217;s default design without straying too far from the original, which can confuse fans. 
And don&#8217;t forget to check out FoxyMelody&#8217;s souped up profile at myspace.com/foxymelody
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		<title>5 Biggest DRM Debacles</title>
		<link>http://foxymelody.com/blog/?p=103</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike_B</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business of Music]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Digital Distribution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
AudioTuts nails the description of Digital Rights Management software calling it: &#8220;the most pointless innovation of the digital age&#8221;.
With that in mind, they&#8217;ve compiled a listing of the 5 Biggest DRM Debacles. Relive the glory days of companies inadvertently destroying all of their customers music and investing millions of R&#38;D dollars in suing one another.
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		<title>New Way to find Artists on iTunes</title>
		<link>http://foxymelody.com/blog/?p=101</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[iTunes has just announced that they have launched a new way for artists to be found on iTunes, and it couldn&#8217;t be easier. Simply type
www.itunes.com/artistname
into your browser. It will bring you straight to the page. If you have a specific album in mind, the url is
www.itunes.com/artistname/albumname
No more iTunes link maker, no more using their questionable search engine. This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PR Mastery</title>
		<link>http://foxymelody.com/blog/?p=98</link>
		<comments>http://foxymelody.com/blog/?p=98#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General Interest]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PR]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a great publicity stunt by independent musician Josh Pyke. He had a boat built modelled after his guitar and rode it around Sydney Harbor in Australia.
You can read all about it at Wired&#8217;s Listening Post.
Why is this a great PR stunt? Well, for one, I am talking about it right now, and until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another reason major labels will perish.</title>
		<link>http://foxymelody.com/blog/?p=97</link>
		<comments>http://foxymelody.com/blog/?p=97#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business of Music]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[General Interest]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[DRM]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Music Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Universal Music Chief and admitted technophobe Doug Morris babbling about technology, furthering proof that he has no idea what he is talking about. My favorite claim: that the labels will figure out DRM.
This simply won&#8217;t happen. For every super programmer the labels hire to perfect DRM, there is a small army of 14 year old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Other Apple Music Store</title>
		<link>http://foxymelody.com/blog/?p=95</link>
		<comments>http://foxymelody.com/blog/?p=95#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike_B</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business of Music]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Digital Distribution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Production]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Recording]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tools of the Trade]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iTunes Distribution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iPhone Apple iTunes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Given their huge success of the iPod almost everyone in the free white headphoned world is familiar with the Apple iTunes music store. Less well known to musicians is the other Apple digital marketplace, the iPhone Apps store. 
Like the music store, the App Store has seen massive success and driven thousands of dollars in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music Makers and Technology Shakers</title>
		<link>http://foxymelody.com/blog/?p=93</link>
		<comments>http://foxymelody.com/blog/?p=93#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike_B</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business of Music]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Digital Distribution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Promotion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On October 15th there will be a panel discussion &#8220;Music Makers and Technology Shakers&#8221; taking place in San Francisco. Principals from Sellaband, WBR, KCRW and a few independent artists will be discussing current trends in music (as much as systemic disruption and everyone flailing about madly trying to hold onto the past can be called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pricing Strategies in Online Music Sales</title>
		<link>http://foxymelody.com/blog/?p=71</link>
		<comments>http://foxymelody.com/blog/?p=71#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike_B</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business of Music]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Digital Distribution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
For those interested in how to get the most money for their music sales, there are worse places to start than the NY Times Freakonomics blog.
They&#8217;ve run a series of interesting articles on new and innovative pricing strategies for downloadable music:


If Teaser Rates Work for Buying Houses, Why Not for Online Music?
How Much Do You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sounds of Recesssion</title>
		<link>http://foxymelody.com/blog/?p=69</link>
		<comments>http://foxymelody.com/blog/?p=69#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike_B</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business of Music]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MySpace]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iTunes Distribution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
PopMatters pushed out an article today examining the potential effects of the recession and economic decline on the music business. It&#8217;s basically the same advice that everybody is getting today: &#8220;tighten your belts, stock up on Ramen&#8221;, but directed specifically at the working musician. 
The most important thing you might be able to do now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One more reason to have your music digitally distributed</title>
		<link>http://foxymelody.com/blog/?p=68</link>
		<comments>http://foxymelody.com/blog/?p=68#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike_B</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General Interest]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Music Video]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Promotion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  YouTube, the Internet&#8217;s number one distributor of ninja cat videos, has just announced that they are going to be using their &#8220;music match&#8221; technology for something other than identifying which middle school girls are lip synching to Katy Perry: adding contextual links to AmazonMP3 and iTunes (checkout the screenshot below and read more at RWW).  
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