freeform goodness

On the iTunes/iTMS front: Derek Sivers, president of CD Baby, an indie-focused online CD retailer, posted some fascinating notes from a meeting Apple hosted with several independent label representatives. It looks like the iTMS’ breadth of selection is about to improve dramatically, with help from the little guys.

If you write about BitTorrent a couple of times, you’ll soon find that over half of your incoming search hits are coming from people trying to find torrent links for various stuff. If you mention popular yet vapid stuff in a joke entry, you’ll get even more hits. Funny, that.

On the positive side, you’ll also see a surprisingly large number of hits coming from people looking for the good stuff, which encourages writing even more about good music. As Sven mentioned in his recent metablogging entry, contributing positive “Google juice” to a deserving site is a small but worthwhile reason for blogging.

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:: Dave Walker 13:42 (EST/EDT) [+] ::

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