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Power to the people!

If a band of renegade podcasters has its way, the No. 1 song Thursday at Apple's iTunes site won't be by a major-label star such as Fergie or Fall Out Boy.

Instead it will be ``Mine Again'' by Black Lab, an independent rock band formed a decade ago in San Francisco that was cast aside by two major labels.

That's the goal of Bum Rush the Charts, a movement that seeks to demonstrate the power of new media by making the Black Lab song No. 1 at iTunes for one day. Organizers are hoping for 50,000 purchases of the song Thursday at 99 cents each, a figure they believe will secure Black Lab the top spot.

A spokesman for Apple declined to detail how the chart is compiled, but said, ``It's a lot more complicated than just taking a snapshot of the previous 24 hours' worth of sales.''

Nonetheless, organizers say response to the movement so far has been positive.

Read: Podcasters aim to push song to top of iTunes chart

Attention Atlanta Bloggers!

Jon Gos has launch his bloggers meetup which I wanted to let everyone know about.
http://blog.meetup.com/375/calendar/5471619/

RSVP for Ethics and Social Behavior Online

Sunday, March 4, 2007, 7:00 PM

Where:

Sapporo Japanese Restaurant
1401 Johnson Ferry Road
Marietta , GA 30062-6495
770.565.7018

Description:

What are the ethics of Citizen Journalism?  Are there any?  Should there be? 

Anonymity seems to bring out the worst in some people. If you haven't noticed just take one look at the comments section of your favorite blog. This is a characteristic of human nature that we can't completely understand in one meeting but we can meet-up to discuss it over Japanese food!