Trent Reznor gets in on pollster action
Last week, we jested about Kanye West focus-grouping his new single and making adjustments to it after a bit of a panning online. This morning, however, Soundboard awoke to a friendly e-mail from Trent Reznor, who had a few questions of his own about our Nine Inch Nails fandom habits:
I'm enjoying my couple of weeks off between legs of our Lights In The Sky tour and got to thinking... "wouldn't it be fun to send out a survey to everyone that's shown interest in NIN?" Well, that's not exactly how it went, but regardless -- here it is. As we've moved from the familiar world of record labels and BS into the unknown world of doing everything yourself, we've realized it would benefit us and our ability to interact with you if we knew more about what you want, what you like, what you look like naked, etc.
Google offers free music to China; don't hold your breath for U.S. version
In China, Baidu is the powerhouse, the "it" girl, the search engine to beat. It's a treasure trove of music, most of it illegal. But Google may have found a way to increase its market share there -- offering free music legally.
The U.S. search giant launched a beta version of a Chinese music service called Music Onebox, which is available only in China at www.google.cn.
"We are launching Music Onebox to give users an easy and legal way
to find the music they're looking for, and to give music labels and
publishers a new channel to distribute, promote and make money off of
their valuable music content," said a Google spokesperson.
Read more of 'Google offers free music to China' at LA Times' Technology blog.
