• A profile on Jim Griffin and Choruss. "I think it's fair to say the business of music products has fallen and it just can't get up. … For any civilized society, it has to become very, very concerned when it becomes voluntary to pay for … the stuff of innovation, because those are the very things that drive civilized society, especially the one we live in." (eSchool News)

• Nokia plans to launch Comes With Music in Italy, Sweden, Mexico and other countries in the coming months. (PC World)

• Download Music Tanks report titled "Let’s Sell Recorded Music" that seeks solutions for record labels, ISPs and governments. (Music Tank)

• Mixwit's creators have just finished Mixwidget, an open-source mixtape project based on the late Mixwit mixtape. (Mixwidget)

• Some reality is setting in as ad-funded music models fail to deliver what content owners want. (New Media Age)

• Mixed results for recorded music in Australia in 2008. Total value dropped 8%, CDs dropped 12.2% by volume and 10.5% by value, digital tracks rose 33% by value and all digital rose 35.6% by value. (Billboard.biz)

• Auditude, which has deals with MTV Networks, MySpace, and Warner Brothers Entertainment, has raised a $10.5 second round of funding. The company's content identification technology identifies clients' videos and places ads over them. (VentureBeat)