“What does a grieving mother do after she loses a child?” asks The Taunton Gazette. Well, for Sharen Wendy Robertson relief came through the creation of a music CD. Roberton is the owner of The Story Train Literacy Center. She is a business woman and writer and sings as a hobby. “After my son died, […]
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What if you could identify the early-warning signs of a business problem? What if, in fact, the red flags are there right now, waving at you unheeded from information you’ve already collected asks Fast Company. Your source of data doesn’t need to be high tech. In fact, it doesn’t even need to be numerical. Consider
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Tim Westergren talks about Pandora’s place in the evolving worlds of music and technology in this report from CNNMoney.
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Heck with a better mousetrap. Jason Lucash, 26, is busy inventing compact products that help people listen to music. The Danville Express News reports that Rock-It, developed by Lucash, is a gadget that allows music fans to use any household object as a speaker – it’s the “first ever portable vibration speaker system,” explains Lucash.
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This small town in Pennsylvania Dutch country, in the midst of cornfields and dairy farms, would seem an unlikely home for a warehouse filled with the detritus of rock concerts past and future – a large section of the stage for the next Black Eyed Peas tour, the sets for an Elton John concert and
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Throw two former preschool teachers, a rock band keyboardist and a singer together and you get the world’s most famous pop band for the toddler set: The Wiggles. CNNMoney reports that now in their 18th year, the Australian band has become a global powerhouse in children’s entertainment, earning $45 million annually from live concert tours,
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FreeAllMusic.com, which began a test version for invited users on Dec. 22 and plans to open to the public in January, will allow users to download songs, which may be copied and shared – unencumbered, in other words, by digital rights management restrictions, reports The New York Times. In return, instead of paying 99 cents
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It arrived 30 years ago, a rebellious little ditty that became the ultimate anti-Christmas carol by killing off an eggnog-loving Grandma in the very first line, says The Dallas Morning News. But during those 30 years, “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” has become a holiday classic. Songwriter Randy Brooks estimates 40 million copies
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Thomas Alva Edison will receive a Special Merit Award from The Recording Academy this January according to The Morning Journal. Among his thousands of inventions, Edison patented his phonograph, the device that allowed people to record and play sounds. “Thomas Alva Edison was one of the most accomplished inventors in American history, holding nearly 1,100
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Hobby jingle maker Love Harnell is copying the model proven by I Wear Your Shirt – matching the social media sharing and the one-dollar-per-calendar-day-of-the-year surcharge – but substituting jingles for shirts, according to a story on Mashable. With LoveJingles, which officially kicks off on January 1, 2010, Harnell will cover, write and perform jingles for
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