Daily Tidbits: Nine Inch Nails is the coolest band around

Nine Inch Nails band leader Trent Reznor announced in a blog post on the band's official page Wednesday that a "subversive" group contacted him recently with 400GB of HD footage from three of the band's recent concerts. In a move that would send shock waves through the music industry, Reznor provided a link to the file and challenged fans to create compelling videos out of all the footage. Those interested can find more information about the video on the Nine Inch Nails Web site.

Slacker.com, a service that provides personalized online radio stations, announced Thursday that it has partnered with Research In Motion to bring its offering to BlackBerry devices. Dubbed Slacker Mobile, the service will provide personalized music discovery and listening with the help of 100 pre-programmed stations, as well as 10,000 individual artist stations. The app is free and available now.

Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show, Sonoro Audio, a German designer and engineer of high-priced audio products, announced that it has partnered with music-streaming service Pandora to make Web radio available in its entire line of Elements W radios. Much like other devices that interface with Pandora, users will be able to access all their stations anywhere a broadband connection can be established. The company's Elements W line of radios will be made available sometime in the next few months.

Mobile TV provider FLO TV released a report Thursday detailing the growth of television viewership on mobile phones. According to its research, the average consumer is now spending 20 minutes per day watching television on a mobile phone. It also found that viewership increased 103 percent over the daily average during the one-day playoff between Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate at the 2008 U.S. Open and the company witnessed a 22 percent jump on Election Day.

eFresh.com, the self-titled "eBay for produce", announced Thursday that it has secured $5.4 million of venture funding in a round that was led by Rabobank. eFresh executives say they will use the cash to expand the company's presence internationally and increase the usability of the site.

[shootthecops]

NIN has a great bootleg/live community and has encouraged bootlegging to an extent, yet they still haven't ok'd having live material hosted at archive.org's Live Music Archives, so in many ways Trent isn't doing what other bands are doing for their fans in that department. But its still nice to see him passing along torrent links, I suppose.

[Ipokemonkeys]

There is a Fan DVD of LITS being made NOW - which was linked as a "great start" by NIN's Art Director, Rob Sheridan, in the original post of the files.

Visit http://thisoneisonus.org and help make your imprint on the Tour DVD.

[thelemurking]

Trent gets it! Why is it so hard for the record companies to understand what's going on. The old way of doing stuff with locked down copyright makes them look like content Nazis.

I'm not saying that music and information wants to be FREE, but when the content is worthy, people will buy it in digital. This is why iTunes and Amazon are doing so well, because you get to pick the songs worthy of your money without having to drop down a lot of cash for a bunch of lackluster mediocre tracks that's just filler material between the decent to great songs.

I imagine there will be some fantastic edits out of this for some wonderful video footage.

[Ipokemonkeys]

http://thisoneisonus.org