MySpace campaign targets global warming

MySpace campaigntargets global warming
MySpace.com, the leading Internet lifestyle portal, announced Thursday that it has joined forces with Al Gore to create an unprecedented campaign for the global warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth." The campaign which runs for the next several weeks, is the broadest effort MySpace has undertaken on behalf of a social cause.
"MySpace has a unique ability to mobilize its community around an urgent cause. We are thrilled they are participating in the promotion of 'An Inconvenient Truth,'" said former Vice President Al Gore. "In doing so, they are helping us raise awareness about the planetary emergency posed by global warming."
MySpace's campaign for "An Inconvenient Truth" includes a custom-designed community to raise awareness and facilitate conversation about global warming. Among other features, the community's home page offers a personal environmental impact calculator so every user can assess his/her individual contribution to global warming.
Site's songs let yousit in with the stars
LOS ANGELES -- A new Web site is trying a different twist on digital music sales by selling songs that consumers can purchase stripped of musical parts such as drums, keyboards, guitar or bass guitar.
DreamMusician.com hopes to entice musicians who want to play along to hits by artists like Smash Mouth, Tears For Fears, Rick James and others while pretending they're actually filling in on a given part.
The site, which launched earlier this month, sells song downloads for about $2 each and compilations of the same song with different instrumental parts removed starting at about $18. The tracks are downloaded in the Windows Media Audio format.
Universal Music Group said this week it licensed instrumental tracks from the original masters of approximately 50 songs to the Web retailer. Among the UMG artists whose works are available on the site are Marvin Gaye, Jackson 5 and Elton John. The Web site says it expects to offer more than 1,000 songs, or 10,000 tracks, by the end of the year.
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"I didn't think being famous was any way to live. (But) there's a positive angle to everything. It's rewarding to see how celebrity can impact different causes. I just started working with the Red Cross because I want to do something. I want to get my hands dirty." -- Alexis Bledel ("Gilmore Girls"), in Teen People.
"I would be in school and I would be writing my autograph over and over and, like, saying, 'Oh, my goodness, I can't wait till I really have to do this,' and now it's so weird that I'm actually doing it for real." -- Miley Cyrus ("Hannah Montana"), on her newfound fame, in Newsweek.
"Onstage at a Stones concert and play guitar." -- Jason Biggs, on what he would do if he were invisible for an hour, in People magazine.