The Top Kids Music Albums of All Time Poll: #s 25-11

Here's a list of album numbers 11 through 25 of the Top Kids Music Albums of All Time Poll. For a few more comments on the methodology, go here, but you may as well just dig in... because it's gonna take a little while. 25. Family Dance - Dan Zanes Points: 136 Ballots: 6 Release date: 2001 Zanes' second foray into music for families. Unlike its predecessor Rocket Ship Beach, this album to me feels like his first real "age-desegregated" album, with less of the more kid-focused stuff on the first disk. 24. Easy - Secret Agent 23 Skidoo Points: 137 Ballots: 6 Release date: 2008 (released in 2009) I'm not the only person to have said it -- it's the first great kids hip-hop album, but saying so makes it sound like its appeal would be limited. It's not. 23. Rocket Ship Beach - Dan Zanes Points: 140 Ballots: 6 Release date: 2000 Sure, Laurie Berkner and Justin Roberts released albums before this one came out, but if there was an album that first made people in the world at large aware of a resurgent genre, it was this one. 22. On a Flying Guitar - SteveSongs Points: 144 Ballots: 6 Release date: 2000 The second SteveSongs disk, and the first after Steve Roslonek left his job as a business consultant to perform music for kids full-time. It's worked out well for him, I think. 21. Singable Songs for the Very Young - Raffi Points: 146 Ballots: 6 Release date: 1976 It's been said (though by whom has been lost to the mists of time and the internet) that this album, Raffi's first, basically created the kids' music genre from a sales perspective. Seeing as the album has gone platinum, that's not entirely surprising.

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The lunchtime newsbucket - chock full o'links

Pink Floyd, Vodafone malware, Windows's origins, WiMAX, Apple's iTunesLP, ad blockers, iPhone App licensing, I Can Afford Cheezburger?, CEOP lack of buttons and more... A quick burst of links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Pink Floyd Suing EMI Label Over Online Royalties - BusinessWeek Because their songs are seamless, see, and fade into each other, every single download should count as an album. Something like that. Forecast: could get ugly. Of course in the old days, a top person at EMI would have just said "Get me Pink on the phone - he and I can sort this out..." Vodafone distributes phone that spreads Mariposa botnet >> Panda Research Blog Ooh, dear, Vodafone, we think that this counts as an enormous mistake. The Secret Origin of Windows >> Technologizer.com A year after first being announced, Windows was still vapourware - which meant Tandy Trower (no, really) had the job of wrestling it into real, running code in a product with a price tag and a strategy. When he started, it looked "a bit clunky" due to the system font. A fascinating read. Melting down the crown jewels >> Information World Review Tim Buckley Owen on the contradictions generated by the fact that data.gov.uk will make Ordnance Survey data available, but hasn't managed to get Royal Mail to do the same for postcode data. (Note though that the OS consultation proposes making CodePoint - a long/lat set of postcode locations - available for free reuse.) Gaming sites losing out to 'social networking games' >> BBC News As the Games Developers Conference comes into sight, the problem is that Farmville and Mafia Wars are sucking up peoples' time that used to be spent on games sites Another one bites the dust: Cisco steps out of the WiMAX game >> Engadget WiMAX isn't quite a dead duck, but it's starting to look distinctly peaky. Apple's iTunes LP 6 Months Later: LP What? >> GigaOM Noticed how everyone is talking about Apple's iTunes LP format? Um...perhaps they're doing it on Google Wave? Or perhaps it was launched in a hurry to placate the record industry, which wanted to have some way to tempt people to buy albums, rather than singles. Even so, it might work well with the iPad, if that ever reaches us... Should you use ad blockers or not? >> Guardian Technology Worth reading for the debate in the comments too - but why is nobody discussing the idea of the subscription to get rid of ads? All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple: The iPhone Developer Program License - EFF The Electronic Frontier Foundation "used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to ask NASA for a copy, so that the general public could see what rules conrolled the technology they could use with their phones". Inside the Low-Paying Cheezburger Empire >> Ben Huh - Gawker Those pictures of furry cats won't post themselves, you know. Oh, wait, they do. Unexplained: why are the people working at cheezburger so lowly paid? Should Microsoft get into the PC hardware business? >> Ed Bott at ZDNet.com Maybe not all PCs, but a few reference versions? Click CEOP Button - Add-ons Gallery >> IEAddons: where's the Firefox one? CEOP has a "panic button" so kids can report scary people, but is this really only available for IE8? Can't they implement a bookmarklet? Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide >> TED.com That's *Sir* TBL to you. The year before, he was getting the audience to chant "raw data now". This year, he's showing them the how of raw data. Popular [not Frequently Asked?] Questions >> UK Council for Child Internet Safety Perhaps a frequently asked question might be "why is your website so amazingly uninformative?" You can follow Guardian Technology's linkbucket on delicious Charles Arthur guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

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Photo of the Day: 2011 Chevy Cruze

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Photo of the Day: Chevy Hot Rod

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Photo of the Day: 2010 Camaro SS/RS

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How Musician Ellis Paul Got 300 Fans To Give Him $100,000 For His Latest Album

Yet another great blog post by Ariel Hyatt, exploring how musicians are embracing the concept of focusing on the true fans to build a modern business model -- this time looking at how musician Ellis Paul was able to raise $100,000 from just 300 fans. The actual concept appears quite similar to what we've seen elsewhere before, in that he put together a set of "tiers" for support. The Ellis Paul story actually sounds quite similar to the Jill Sobule story -- both musicians who have been around for many years, bouncing around in the old system before realizing that a big label doesn't make much sense, when you have a strong fan base and really aren't selling the amount of albums the big record label really needs to consider you a success. Like Sobule, Paul has focused on really building up a loyal audience, and figuring out ways to communicate with them. What's interesting here, is that it took just 300 fans buying into tiers to get Paul to that $100,000 mark. Not bad. There are some parts that suggest Paul could have an even stronger model, however. It doesn't appear that he really embraces "free." For example, there's lots of talk focusing on selling albums, even though his manager admits that he makes about 60% of his revenue from live shows, and a key focus for Paul is to build up his audience. In fact, for people who did participate in his tiered offering, they would send them CDs and ask them to pass the CDs along to other potential "true fans." But why not just embrace the more efficient system of offering the music up for free to expand the audience much further, continue to build up that live following, and offer additional alternatives for the business model that might get even more than 300 people to participate? Permalink | Comments | Email This Story

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Strokes Confirm New Album Release, Lollapalooza

Fans anxiously awaiting new music from the Strokes have two special dates to mark on their calendars. According to singer Julian Casablancas, who recently spoke to The Chicago Tribune, the quintet will release their first new album since 2006's First Impressions of Earth this September. And there's more good news: the band will bring their new tunes to Lollapalooza's main stage in August for their first U.S. show in over three years! As previously reported, rumors claimed that the Strokes, Lady Gaga, Green Day, Soundgarden, and more would appear at the Chicago fest. The Strokes' festival appearances -- which also include a few European gigs -- have Mr. Casablancas excited for his band's return. "We're getting the biggest offers of our career," he said. "It feels great, because I remember people writing things like, 'We'll see if they're still around in 10 years,' when we first came out." Casablancas added that the Strokes are nearly done recording their yet-to-be-titled fourth album in a Manhattan studio. Last month, the guys checked in via their YouTube page with a nine-minute clip of the sessions. Watch here. "I've written a lot of melodies for it, but the other guys have also contributed a lot more: melodies, choruses, parts," he explained. "It's way more collaborative. So it'll have a different feel than our other albums." If you can't wait for the new record -- or if a trip to Lollapalooza isn't in the budget -- get your Casablancas fix later this month, when the singer will kick off a nationwide solo tour behind his SPIN-approved debut, Phrazes for the Young, which includes a stop at Coachella in April. Click here for full tour dates.

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Strokes Playing Lollapalooza, Album Out In September

It looks like it's going to be even more difficult to get tickets to this year's Lollapalooza (as if it isn't already hard enough). That's because The Strokes have confirmed they'll headline the Chicago festival this summer. Singer Julian Casablancas told the Chicago Tribune the New York rockers would top the bill on one of the dates. Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire, Soundgarden and Green Day are also rumoured to play this year's festival, but the lineup has yet to be announced. Lollapalooza 2010 takes place Aug. 6 to 8 at Chicago's Grant Park. As for the follow-up to 2006's First Impressions Of Earth, Casablancas says the long-awaited album will be out in September. "I've written a lot of melodies for it, but the other guys have also contributed a lot more: melodies, choruses, parts," he told the Chicago Tribune. "It's way more collaborative. So it'll have a different feel than our other albums." In the meantime, Casablancas is still on the road supporting his Phrazes For The Young debut solo album. He'll wrap up that tour at the end of April. You can see The Strokes on June 13 at Newport, England's Seaclose Park as part of the Isle Of Wight Festival. They'll also pay this year's Hurricane Festival and Southside Festival in Scheesel, Germany and Neuhausen Ob Eck, Germany in June. In the meantime, you can see Casablancas here: March 23 Providence, RI @ Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel March 24 New York, NY @ The Fillmore at Irving Plaza March 26 Atlanta, GA @ Center Stage March 27 Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore Charlotte March 28 Baltimore, MD @ Ram's Head Live! March 30 Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom April 1 Montreal, QC @ Le National April 2 Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre April 3 Cleveland, OH @ House Of Blues Cleveland April 5 Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall April 6 Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre April 8 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue April 9 Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue Theatre April 10 Kansas City, MO @ Beaumont Club April 12 Houston, TX @ House Of Blues Houston April 13 Dallas, TX @ House Of Blues Dallas April 14 Austin, TX @ La Zona Rosa April 18 Indio, CA @ Empire Polo Club (Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival) April 21 Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre April 22 Omaha, NE @ Sokol Auditorium April 23 Des Moines, IA @ People's April 25 Columbia, MD @ The Blue Note April 26 St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant April 27 Nashville, TN @ Cannery Ballroom April 29 New Orleans, LA @ Republic

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General Support :: Media Gallery Comments and IP

By: Lizard Hi there, I was just wondering if album owners were meant to be able to delete comments in their own albums? My logged in users have the delete button, but they can not use it. Also is it possible to remove the IP addresses so that logged in users are not able to view them in the media gallery? They are not able to see the IP addresses with comments throughout the rest of my site. I am using Media Gallery version 1.5.1 with Geeklog version 1.6.1. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

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