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The Crucial Mistake Most Bands Are Making With Facebook

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

The Tangled Web We Watch: A Bizarre Episode of Father-Son Bonding in the 21st Century

Why Does Spotify Keep Ripping People Off?

By Emily Lundquist Ten dollars a month is a small price to pay for practically every piece of recorded music except The Beatles. Which is why, late last year, I signed up for Spotify. Only two months in, however, I was out, and feeling like I'd been ripped off. Turns out I'm not the only one. See ... More >>

Does Spotify Mean the End the iPod and Your Music Collection?

When I bought my first iPod--this was the first iPod, when the scroll wheel actually spun around--it was a severe blow to my nerd-cred, which I guarded pretty jealously at the time. (It was the only cred I had.) Relying on iTunes and its untouchable database to maintain my MP3 collection, instead of ... More >>

2012 St. Louis Food Blogger Bake Sale April 28 at Sappington Farmers' Market

Warning: The mental images produced by the following descriptions of items offered at the 2012 St. Louis Food Blogger Bake Sale might cause uncontrollable cravings and excessive salivation. The second annual St. Louis event is part of a national effort to benefit Share Our Strength, the nation's lea ... More >>

Adult Entertainment Virtual Convention: Inside the World of Wank-Craft

​ Most conventions are pants-mandatory kinds of affairs -- even those of the adult nature. For the world's first virtual porn convention, however, I'm not wearing any (relax...I'm in my PJs). This past weekend, XBiz and Red Light Center hosted the Adult Entertainment Virtual Convention, porn's fi ... More >>

Megaupload Goes Down: Five Lost Music-Stealing Technologies

It's true: Megaupload has been gone an entire week, and for the millions of people who used the site because they like their totally legal for-pay cloud storage to come equipped with fake download links and massive flash banner ads I'm sure things have been difficult. For copyright holders, massiv ... More >>

Food Bloggers Fooled, Flabbergasted by ConAgra PR Stunt

​The New York Times today has a story that's riling the food blogosphere: A group of food (and mommy) bloggers say food behemoth ConAgra and the PR agency Ketchum concocted a fake underground restaurant from celebrity chef George Duran to trick them into sampling new Marie Callender's-brand items. ... More >>

Spotify's US Launch Approaches; Which Music Service Are You?

​Music fans in the United States don't have a lot to envy of their European brothers and sisters, at least unless they're big fans of Abba or the kind of sticky, glitter-covered dance-pop that usually just makes me really want to leave the youth hostel and brush my teeth. One exception: Spotif ... More >>

ClaireMcCaskill.com Officially Worth $4,000

How much would you pay for this web domain?​From the Department of Why the Hell Didn't We Think of That?: The Post-Dispatch reports that a Columbia-based web designer named Brennan Hobart noticed that Senator Claire McCaskill's website was called claireonline.com. Hobart suspected that the do ... More >>

The RFT 2011 St. Louis Web Awards: Best Food Blog

YouTube Video: St. Louis Cop Shown Beating Suspect

Update 3:20 p.m. We've found another video (below) on YouTube that should still play.Update 2:44 p.m. YouTube has removed the video stating it violates the company's policy of showing "shocking and disgusting content." Never mind that if you search YouTube for terms such as "knock out, street fight, ... More >>

YouTube Removes Pro-Palestinian/Anti-Motorola Video

Two weeks ago, we told you about the local activists who busted out an anti-Motorola song-and-dance routine at the Best Buy and AT&T stores in suburban Brentwood -- and we posted a video of the performance. That video quickly drew more than 35,000 hits.Last week, however, YouTube unceremoniousl ... More >>

What St. Louis Food Blogs Should We Be Digesting?

​Hello, all. Courtney Schilling is out today, so the weekly St. Louis Food Blog Digest will not be appearing at its regularly scheduled time. However, earlier today I was doing some maintenance on our blogroll (which might actually be reflected on the blogroll at some point) when I realized that i ... More >>

Chipotle Offers Facebook Users Buy One, Get One Free Deal

...or without eating a few burritos.​Have you seen The Social Network? You should. It's a great movie. One of my favorite parts is a brief moment when Mark Zuckerberg (as played by Jesse Eisenberg) is brainstorming what will become Facebook. On a dry-erase board he's made three columns to compare ... More >>

4G Mobile Internet Service Launches in St. Louis Today

Image sourceThe Sprint EVO.​Gosh, and it seemed like only yesterday when everybody was lining up at the Apple Store for the 3G iPhone... Now of course that is all totally passe, especially since 4G service will only be offered through Sprint Nextel and Clearwire, not AT&T, exclusive servicer o ... More >>

16 Cardinal Sins Food Bloggers Commit

If he were a food blogger, all the entries would be about 'triple chicken nibbler Jack Daniel's poppers at Fridays'​In the past half-decade or so, food writing has opened up to anyone with an appetite and the compulsion to over-share through blogging. It's even hit Hollywood. With that in mind, an ... More >>

A Blogger's Baker's Dozen: The RFT staff presents a sampler of St. Louis' must-read contributors to the blogosphere

Boxee Announces Boxee Beta and a New Box

Boxee made an announcement this week that makes the idea of ditching cable service for Internet-distributed video a much more tempting proposition. The announcement was a twofer: a new version of their software that provides a cable-box-like interface for Internet video and new hardware that will ru ... More >>

Mac Users Get Google Chrome (Finally)

​Yesterday Google made the the beta version of the Chrome Web browser available for Mac and Linux users. This is almost exactly a year after the browser was launched (in beta) for Windows. Why the long delay? Nobody knows. It's very likely the case that Google was concentrating its efforts at aimi ... More >>

St. Louis Sex Blogger "The Beautiful Kind" Near Tippy-Top of the Heap

Unreal likes to think we knew her when...​Yep, we stumbled across local sex blogger The Beautiful Kind back in early 2007, when she was getting down and dirty with a bull penis.

Digital Love: Checking back in with local Internet radio station 3WK

Gut Check: Ian taps into the tasty world of St. Louis-area food bloggers

Do You Have a Facesquatting Problem?

moar funny picturesThousands of Facebook users made a mad dash to reserve their unique Facebook URL's on Friday night. Did you get yours? Oh wait ... you mean you had better things to do late on a Friday night? This seemingly over-hyped event seemed to go off without a hitch. Facebook didn't crash a ... More >>

Google Fires Back at Hulu, Announces YouTube XL

YouTube XL Hulu's launch of Hulu Desktop last week might have been the little extra kick in the pants for Google to announce the YouTube version of the ten foot interface (a ten foot interface is a screen menu system that can be viewed and manipulated from across the room like yo ... More >>

The Verdict Is In: Hulu's Desktop Client is AWESOME!

A few months back there was a little dust-up between Hulu and the makers of an Internet video desktop client called Boxee. Boxee is a great little application for navigating videos and other media on your computer or on the Internet onto an interface that's designed to be navigable from ac ... More >>

Green Day Stopping by St. Louis on August 11

Hot on the heels of its super-anticipated release, 21st Century Breakdown, Green Day is stopping by St. Louis (oops, was not sent a venue, just assumed. Monday brain fart) on Tuesday, August 11, at least according to its publicist and MySpace page. Hear 90 seconds of new single "Know Your Enemy" at ... More >>

Feisty Bulldog -- Closing.

From the Management: Blogroll, Perma-Concert Calendar

Napster Drops DRM -- With a Catch; Sony BMG Does as Well

SonyBMG Launches Platinum MusicPass Album Download Cards

Smashing Pumpkins Release American Gothic EP January 2

Note from A to Z's Management

Video Ethics

Should there be rules about who gets credit for discovering popular online video clips?

Hits Galore

Baseball blogs make a successful pitch for legitimacy.

Thursday Afternoon Random Web Links: News You Can Use, Abuse and Peruse

You Play, They Pay: Internet Radio's Demise?

Small Webcasters Dealt Death Blow

The legalese surrounding Kopper's GaragePunk podcast.

Plus, meet the finalists for the RFT DJ Spin-off!

Blog-alicious

Think the coasts have a lock on good MP3 blogs? Think again.

You Play, They Pay

How much should it cost Internet radio operators like Jim and Wanda Atkinson to satisfy your cravings for streaming rock & roll?

Soup, Sandwich and Censorship

"Questionable" material is filtered off the menu at Saint Louis Bread Co.

Sweet and Lo-Fi

Bill Streeter's vlog is how others see us

Head Over Feet

We sip java with Alanis, investigate podcasting and figure out what those concert tickets are really worth

Cardinal Saint

Unreal eavesdrops on Pujols and the Heavenly Father; plus, we analyze the Lou's staggering crunk deficit, pay one last visit to Sanford-Brown and witness the demise of Wash. U.'s peer-to-peer network

Peer-to-Peer Pressure

Wash. U. students find a way around their Kazaa conundrum

Caught in the Web

Internet-only radio stations take a beating

Air Piracy

Internet-only radio faces a shaky future thanks to the grasping hands of the Recording Industry Association of America

SNAP CALL

City Hall makes a quick pick in an ugly battle over Internet and phone service. Prepare to pay the price.