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Jimi Hendrix, Voodo Chile, live at Woodstock, Aug. 18, 1969. 10:31

Top 10 Songs Over 10 Minutes Long . Jazz and live versions (and classical, as well) not included. At JamsBio Biolog.

Dylan's Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands (11:23) is not one of them.

Neither is the Chambers' Brothers' Time Has Come Today (11:09).

Nor the Incredible String Band's A Very Cellular Song (13:09).

Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida apparently (17:05) didn't make the cut.

(And no, Meatloaf's Paradise by the Dashboard Light wasn't that long. It just seems that long: 8:28)

Internet radio threatened again: Giant of Internet Radio Nears Its 'Last Stand': Pandora, Other Webcasters Struggle Under High Song Fees. WaPo.

Last year, an obscure federal panel ordered a doubling of the per-song performance royalty that Web radio stations pay to performers and record companies.

Traditional radio, by contrast, pays no such fee. Satellite radio pays a fee but at a less onerous rate, at least by some measures.

As for Pandora, its royalty fees this year will amount to 70 percent of its projected revenue of $25 million, Westergren said, a level that could doom it and other Web radio outfits.

This week, Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-Calif.) is trying to broker a last-minute deal between webcasters and SoundExchange, the organization that represents artists and record companies. The negotiations could reduce the per-song rate set by the federal panel last year.

Kurt Hanson's RAIN (Radio and Internet Newsletter): Kurt's summary of the Internet radio royalty dispute

Perhaps Pandora Must Be Our Sacrificial Lamb. Michael Arrington, TechCrunch.

Share the unused bandwidth: Free the Airwaves. A site "supported by Google" headlined, Bring wireless Internet to everyone, everywhere.:

Why free the airwaves?

Remember that fuzzy static between channels on the old TVs? Today more than three-quarters of those radio airwaves, or "white space" spectrum, are completely unused. This vast public resource could offer a revolution in wireless services of all kinds, including universal wireless Internet. The FCC will soon decide whether to open this unused spectrum for general usage, and your voice matters -- a lot. So if you agree that freeing the white spaces represents a vote for the future of the Internet, please sign our petition and help spread the word about this campaign. Learn more

About it: Google launches white space offensive with new web site. Ars Technica.

Built for the job: Michael Phelps' Freakish Physique Explained. Gawker: "Phelps has an upper body of a 6'8" person but his lower body seems to be of someone who is only 5'10", which also make the perfect plane in water."