So one of the reasons why I've been so bad about blogging lately is that I'm quite obsessed with learning everything there is to know about running a record label -- in this case, the everluvin' Wide Hive Records.

It's part of my graduate research at SFSU, and my experience will also supplement a couple books I'm in the process of writing...

Anyhoo, our latest release is dissent's

Primal Deconstruction.

There are three different tracks you can check out in MP3 format.
It has been our experience during the course of my research that our downloads only increase as we increase the number of free mp3 tracks samples we give away on our website. (just to be clear, these are complete versions of these songs :)

Also, our number one and number two itunes downloads for the month of May 2005, were the two we've been giving away for free for almost a year. Interesting.

Anyway, more on all that later...just give it a listen for now, and tell me what cha think.

interested peeps: I'd be happy to send you an advance cd. Email me at lisa@widehive.com

Well, I didn't plan it that way, but July was a month off for me and my blog.

Well I'm back. I'll be blogging more regularly and podcasting in a week or so. I'm real excited to be back.

For the first time in my life, I had to rearrange things so I could spend more time in front of the computer!

I see all hell has broken loose in the mean time - with Bolton's confirmation as UN leader and Roberts up for a Supreme Court spot, so it's not like I don't have anything to talk about...

But I'm also getting back in to one of my previous missions of helping Americans understand how they are being cheated out of their side of "the copyright bargain." I've decided that we need to be more aggressive about this issue. Instead of just stopping the term from being increased, we need to start rolling it back to something reasonable, like 50 years or something.

I'll also be publishing some of my research papers from school that I've been working on this summer (the other reason I went A.W.O.L. last month.)

ok talk soon!

lisa