Follow the Drinking Gourd - This Song is not 'Authentic' It is not "traditional." The signature line in the chorus, "for the old man is awaitin' for to carry you to freedom," could not possibly have been sung by escaping slaves, because it was written by Lee Hays eighty years after the end of the Civil War!

Music bloggers do it for the love of music. They can be trusted. Profit is secondary. Are blogs the new radio? If not quite, they show a pathway to the future, where it's about being turned on by love, not hype.

Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History. The Glenbuchat Ballads. Edited by David Buchan and James Moreira. The Folklore of the Jews. By Angelo S. Rappoport. Performing Dark Arts: A Cultural History of Conjuring. By Michael Mangan. Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend. By Gary L. Roberts.

Lily Vasquez, a marketing manager from Clifton, New Jersey, spent nearly eight years trying to break into the music business as a singer before she stumbled across SellaBand.com.

On Monday, January 28, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) begins the hearing that will determine mechanical rates for every songwriter and music publisher in America. It will be the most important rate hearing in the history of the music industry because in addition to setting rates for physical products, rates will be set for the first time ever for digital products such as digital downloads, subscription services and ringtones.

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Online Colleges to Post Effectiveness of Programs - Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education

Network Newsletter: This week, advisories were released for exiv2, php, scponly, xfree86, xine-lib, libvorbis, horde3, flac, tomcat, xorg, mantis, tikiwiki, libcdio, libxfont, cairo, mysql, lzma, regression, and apt-listchanges. The distributors include Debian, Gentoo, Mandriva, SuSE, and Ubuntu.

On Feb. 1 the National Institute of Standards and Technology will release a list of validated scanners that check for Federal Desktop Core Configuration compliance. The scanners all use the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) to automatically scan desktop computers and return the results, said Peter Mell, NISTs SCAP validation program manager, at an FDCC workshop held yesterday in Gaithersburg, Md.