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MP3 Blogs and Music with a Twist

NPR

By Xeni Jardin

Published August 26, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

NPR's Noah Adams talks with technology correspondent Xeni Jardin about a new method of digital music trading. Using so-called MP3 "blogs," music fans trade and comment on songs that are often unusual twists on familiar favorites.

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Xeni Jardin

Xeni Jardin can be heard on NPRs Day to Day, offering technology insights for listeners nationwide. Jardin is also a contributing writer for Wired Magazine, as well as a tech culture journalist and co-editor of the collaborative weblog BoingBoing.net, the award-winning "Directory of Wonderful Things."

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