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Photographer: Piotr Kloczkowski

In celebration of Independence Day, I've incorporated stories around the theme of "independence and freedom".  Leading off with Prince rocking the industry once again with his avant garde decision to give away his latest CD for free in the UK. See Techdirt's article "Music Retailers Flip Out That Prince Wants To Give Away His Music" and Leftsetz Letter's galiant commentary "The Prince Flap".

Ryan Singel of Wired Blog has a great idea "Request for Corporate Privacy Villans: Help Wired News Rank and Shame Them"...here's an excerpt from his article: Heading into freedom weekend, THREAT LEVEL decided to ask readers to indulge in some free speech, whistle blowing, corporate bashing by submitting and voting on which companies have the worst privacy practices.  Spammers, squealers and slimy data sellers are all fair game."

Thanks to the We7 community for embracing the future and helping both artist and fan maintain our independence and freedom...hip hip hooray!

I thought it was time to start a blog so I can be a part of the Web 2.0 revolution.

In starting Side Niche, it's my way of returning a few bytes to the web community.  I've been on the sidelines much too long absorbing massive amount of  great and inspiring information from sites such as Hypebot, GigaOm, Scoble and Techdirt . Thanks to all the bloggers too numerous to mention for your commitment to the Web community.

Side Niche is the compliment to my site Niche-Management(still in the pre-birth stage:)  This is my official re-entry into the Music scene.  So stay tuned!

P.S. - B.E. Shiloh is one of my co-partners(he remained in the scene afroblumultimedia.com).