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December 31, 2007
Shorties
Five Chapters ends the year on an amazing note, with a new serialized short story by Nick Hornby.
The New Yorker features new short fiction, "Outage," by John Updike.
The Oregonian lists its top graphic novels of the year.
Bradley's Almanac posts its favorite albums and live shows of 2007.
CNET's Digital Noise blog makes predictions for 2008.
DRM will die. The trendline is clear--Apple's been selling DRM-free tunes on iTunes since May, Amazon's DRM-free MP3 store has three of the four majors signed up, and eMusic has become the second-most-popular music download service (after iTunes) thanks in part to its longstanding insistence on selling DRM-free MP3s. A year from now, DRM will be irrelevant and hardly used in digital music.
4 color rebellion lists its favorite movies, comics, and music of the year.
Politico lists the top political movies of the year.
T-shirt of the day: "I'm a noob"
also at Largehearted Boy:
2007 online music lists
Daily Downloads
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and full album streams from this week's CD releases)
this week's CD releases
tags: music books popculture indie news
