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Rocking out to The Go! Team while finishing a white paper on contract negotiation. # Sign for Winston Churchill Cigars makes me wonder — what other world leaders are suitable as product brands? # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Are you asking yourself whether you can still fit your dreams into a busy life? One that includes a spouse, some kids, and maybe even a day job that you enjoy — even if it’s not what you expected you’d…

We’ve all watched the sad death spiral of Britain’s Sanctuary Records over the past few years, but I didn’t think it would end up like this: Universal Music Group purchased the company for about forty U.S. cents per share. On…

Mark Cuban wonders aloud whether YouTube’s announcement that popular videos will start earning royalties will spawn a videomakers’ guild or performing rights society along the lines of ASCAP or BMI. It’s an interesting concept, since statutory royalties for songwriters have…

And we’ve got song-by-song discussion on our boards. Track these topics:

If you type the words “songwriting contest” into Google, you’re going to come back with close to a million entries. And that number is growing all the time. Too many scam artists are realizing that it’s far too easy to…

The American Idol songwriting contest is probably the highest profile event of its kind for songwriters in the past ten years, if not more. For all of our talk about the importance of building an audience and playing gigs, songwriters…

They told us that voting on the American Idol songwriting contest would begin on May 2. They just didn’t tell us when. In the meantime, the speculation still abounds about whether or not all twenty finalists have actually been chosen…

It’s still going — over 2,500 posts strong on our first discussion thread, as well as dozens of songs in the song critique area. We’ve just opened up a second American Idol Songwriter discussion thread to keep the server happy…