1. Monty Python gain from Youtube
   After three years of people uploading Python clips to Youtube, the classic comedy troupe struck back by uploading their own high quality versions. The result: a 23,000% increase in DVD sales on Amazon.
   - via Mashable.
2. Facebookers react to 2FM policy change
   In reaction to 2FM’s decision to cut all non-music talk from daytime shows Nikki Hayes and Rick O’ Shea, a Facebook group is galvanising people to voice their dissatisfaction.
   If It’s Not Broken Don’t Fix It: Keep Rick O’Shea and Nikki Hayes Talking
3. Breaking News!
   According to German scientists, the universe may be a giant hologram..
   New Scientist

1. Aeroplane Remixes
   If you’re looking for some brilliant remixes, look no further than Belgium’s Aeroplane whose reworkings of MGMT, Sebastien Tellier and Friendly Fires reside in cosmic disco heaven.
   Listen at the Hype Machine
2. Empire of The Sun
   The hype around this Aussie electro-pop collaboration between Pnau’s Nick Littlemore and Luke Steele of The Sleepy Jackson just gets louder.
   Listen at the Hype Machine
3. Feist and Bon Iver
   Tracks from the Red Hot charity compilation Dark is the Night have started to appear online including ‘The Train’, a beautiful acoustic song with Feist and Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie. The album features 31 tracks, mostly original from the likes of Bon Iver, The National, Arcade Fire, Conor Oberst, Cat Power, Grizzly Bear and much more.
   Listen at the Hype Machine
4. The Brighton Port Authority
   The album I Think We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat for Norman Cook’s new project The BPA is out next week and it features guest appearances from David Byrne, Iggy Pop, Dizzee Rascal, Jack Penate and Jamie T.
   myspace.com/thebpa

This Friday, if you pick up the Day and Night you’ll find my take on that conundrum but I wanted to share with you some responses I received from Twitter users to the question – What the best thing about Twitter?, which hopefully will help you understand a little bit why people are so enamoured with the service.

• muruch – The reason I like Twitter is being able to post & receive updates on my cell phone.
• freemansjournal – best thing about twitter is constant link feed to stuff you’d likely miss otherwise.21st century newswire.
• sweetoblivion26 – that I can pretend I’m ‘friends’ with Stephen Fry, Danny Wallace & Graham Linehan when I am in fact not.
• jeremynicolas – Stephen Fry.

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Yikes. This is uncomfortable.

1. Razorlight spoof
   UK comedian Ben Taylor has created a hilarious parody of Johnny Borrell and co. which spoofs their hit ‘America’. The lyrics centre on Borrell’s preoccupation on the war. Sample line: “When the war is this hi-res / it’s difficult to ignore”.
   
2. Shine on, you crazy diamond
   Chris Dane Owens is an artist looking for your attention, judging by this batty sci-fi romantic-fantasy music video shot in the style of a Hollywood blockbuster. Someone should tell him his “androgynous Lord of the Rings elf crossed with Vonda Shepard” is a not a good look this year..
   

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1. Zoom Doggle
   A guy called Jake started a site to chronicle “the dimple pursuit of fun for fun’s sake”. His latest project involves sending 1000 love letters to strangers for the hell of it.
   zoomdoggle.com
2. Cold Spinters
   MP3s, the outdoors, camping. What more do you want from a blog?
   coldsplinters.com
3. My Amazing Fact
   A blog which posts amazing things from the world from photos of Jupiter to images of animal camouflage.
   myamazingfact.blogspot.com

1. How much for your band?
   Find out how much your favourite band costs promoters to book for the U.S. College Circuit. 100K for David Gray?? Laugh it up fuzzball. See the full list [How much for your band?]
2. 95% of music downloaded illegally
   According to a IFPI report released last week, 95% of all music downloaded in 2008 was acquired illegally. That amounts to 40 billion songs and a loss of €55 billion in potential revenue. It’s not all bad news as digital sales were up 27% in 2008. Read the full report [Musically.com]
3. State Magazine goes online
   State Magazine (a music publication I’m actively involved in) made the decision to cease print publication last week. The magazine will publish all music reviews, news, interviews and features online from now on. Read the latest digital-only issue – [State]

We all know what a pain it is to damage an electronic device. Whether you stupidly drop your phone down the toilet, put your iPod through the wash or lose all your data on your laptop (Disclosure: Only one of these did not happen to me), you are sure to be kicking yourself. Either you have to restore your phone numbers into a banjaxed brick of a phone with a broken screen, or you have to convince Apple customer care that the iPod just inexplicably ceased functioning (Tip: Sunlight and hairdrying it for a week might help, but I didn’t tell you…), or you have to transfer all your files from that external hard-drive you cleverly bought. But here’s a very 21stcentury dilemma. What happens when both your external hard-drives containing all your music, videos, photos and important work files stop working at the same time??
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