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We finally launched our SoundCloud iPhone app! Check your dropbox on the go, or email your own tracks to people you meet at the touch of a button.

I'm with Music Ally taking part in Nova Scotia Music Week. I missed this video first time round but Juan Paz just showed it during one of the sessions. Genius.

Dubber's at it again. This guy's set up more Posterous accounts than most people have had hot dinners. Well that's an exaggeration... but in fact he does actually have a Posterous account where he blogs about his dinners, hot, cold and liquid!!! For those who don't believe me, I tell you no lie. Here's the beer we drunk together during a trip to Brussels last week - http://dubberfood.posterous.com/grimbergen-with-dave-haynes

One of his more noteworthy efforts however is the all new "Dubber's Sunday Jazz Spotcast." Yes, you've guessed it, it's a regular Spotify playlist. Nice idea. And it's seriously good, so make sure you check it out and subscribe by following the link below the picture.

And here's the beauty... it's just a link. I don't need to download any files, I can listen to it tomorrow morning on the way into work via my Spotify iPhone app. I can pass it on to my wife (who commented on how superb the selection was), she can play it anywhere she wants. And then pass it on to whoever she likes. What's more, Dubber isn't restricted to just the music he owns. He doesn't have to dig through his dusty crates, he doesn't have to sit down and record anything. It's just there. Lots of links, to create a new link. A rather lovely, Sunday Jazz style link.

On the aforementioned trip to Brussels I delivered a whole 20 minutes talk (with slides) on why access vs ownership rocked. And how links were the new MP3. I'll probably put the slides up soon and share them with you. But it's more exciting to explain this way don't you think?

http://open.spotify.com/user/adubber/playlist/4X1ZZvm058XLHnAErqmuYR

loving the heavy bass on this little leftfield dubsteppish rework of Fever Ray's When I Grow Up.

I'm a little tired of this whole filesharing debate. I thought we'd moved on from that a couple of years ago. But I just got round to checking this retort to Lily Allen by @itsdanbull. Very clever, no matter what you think of the debate.

I think the video makes a deeper point in itself. No matter what you think of the track and the sentiment a guy like Dan Bull clearly understands how to harness the power of the web for promotion rather than fight against, as Lily seems to be hell bent on trying to do with this debate. At time of writing the video had nearly 200,000, 4000 ratings and over 1000 comments.