Podbop.org: They podcast bands coming to your town. It works in this brain-dead simple way: Type in a city, get MP3s, discover a band you like, and go see them. Music-lover Taylor McKnight (and blogger-friend of mine) is one of the creators and explains it on his blog. For those who want to know such Web 2.0ish things, it’s a mashup that uses the Eventful API and a database Tayor and co-creator Daniel Westermann-Clark have built over the past five months. (I’ve been a fan of Taylor ever since I ran-across his “Steal this Button” project a couple of years ago.)

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<b>Amazonian music:</b> From the Wall Street Journal, <a href=”http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114005222162375368.html?mod=todays_free_feature”> “Amazon Plans Music Service To Rival iPod”</a>:
<blockquote><em>Amazon…is in advanced talks with the four global music companies about a digital-music service with a range of features designed to set it apart. Among them: Amazon-branded portable music players, designed and built for the retailer, and a subscription service that would deeply discount and preload those devices with songs, not unlike mobile phones that are included with subscription plans as part of the deal.</em></blockquote>
My 2¢: I’d like to congratulate the Wall Street Journal reporters and editors who worked on this piece for getting through the entire story without using the word “killer.” I think competition is a good thing and I’d like Amazon and Google and Microsoft and Sony and Wal-Mart and MySpace and MTV and whoever, Cracker Barrel maybe, to all come out with music services to rival iPod. Competition is a good thing. They’ll get crushed, but still, competition is a good thing.

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Mississippi Coast Back to Work: A directory of Mississippi coast businesses that are rebuilding and open for business and want to let everyone know about it. More than 500 businesses have added information. The chambers of commerce of three coastal counties and the state’s Economic Council created the site.

(via: Shawn Lea)

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Jon Fine: “Budget Living magazine died, not particularly quietly, on Valentine’s Day.“

(As I say from time-to-time, the demise of magazines is not my passion, therefore I rarely blog them unless it’s a big deal. Typically, I don’t blog magazine startups or transactions, either. However, I do link to stories related to those topics on del.icio.us/rexblog.magazines; RSS feed: del.icio.us/rss/rexblog/magazines.)

Update: This is the type of high-class magazine-industry-related stories I look for.

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Candy: There’s lots of blogospheric buzz about Daily
Candy being for sale with $100 million being the asking
price. If the WSJ.com story is accurate and the 2006 EBITDA is in
the “low teen millions,” then a price of 10-times EBITDA is very doable.
The hard-to-believe part of this story is that Daily
Candy has an EBITDA in the “low teen millions.”

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