Do you want to enter the lucrative world of music blogging? Do you lack the ability to put together sentences, dig through piles of publicist e-mails, surf the hype/backlash wave, and actually take the time to hit "publish" once you've slogged through the previous steps? Well, fret no more! Someone has put together
a guide to putting together your own MP3 blog that will take up no more than 10 minutes of your time thanks to some "clever" use of the music-tracking site last.fm, the apparently-still-around Yahoo! Pipes, the microblog application Tumblr, and, of course, deeplinking content that other people have already posted. You'll never have to look at the gaping yawn of a "Compose New Entry" page again!
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Idolator
WFMU's Liz Berg takes up our long-dormant 
USA Weekend celebrated the tenth anniversary of Frank Sinatra's passing with a series of rememberances from friends, legendary figures, and Gay Talese. While it was touching to read Bill Clinton and Tony Bennett respectively recall discussing Duets and founding the Frank Sinatra School Of The Arts, the most startling revelation involved his Web site. Did you know that Nancy Sinatra would read him messages from franksinatra.com, and that he would dictate his response to her? In 1997? His passing was already tragic enough without knowing how enthusiastic he was about the ever-blossoming information superhighway. The ol' Reprise CEO might have shown ding-a-lings like Trent Reznor and Thom Yorke how it's done.
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Here are some highlights from the 23,095,234 music-blog posts that went up today:
