A Review of Internet and Music Trends

Today we listened to this VOA (Voice Of America) podcast.

2006: Expanding Ways to Communicate and Have Fun on the Net
http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/archive/2006-12/2006-12-29-voa1.cfm
I had a worksheet with a lot of questions about the 15-minute podcast you heard. We focused on listening and only read the transcript afterwards. You were able to get many of the main ideas but not the details.

An outline of this program:

Trends in 2006

…Internet
…… Blogs
…… MySpace
…… YouTube
…… Second Life
…… Fantasy Sports Leagues

…Music
…… Socially active old acts

……… Madonna
……… The Dixie Chicks
……… Bruce Springsteen (Song: How can a poor man stand such times and live)

…… Indie artists

……… Death Cab for Cutie
……… Yeah Yeah Yeahs
……… My Morning Jacket (song: It Beats 4 U)

…… Newly created bands

……… Raconteurs (Jack White also of the White Stripes)
……… Gnarls Barkley (DangerMouse and Cee-Lo Green) (Song: Crazy)

…… Newly dead artists: James Brown (song: I got you/I feel good)

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