According to a story at Associate Press, many indie artists support file-sharing networks. Many mostly independent artists and labels have tried the freedom of digital distribution on the Internet. And many are worried that a record companies victory in a file-sharing case before the U.S. Supreme Court could hamper the technologies they think are making the music business more of a playing field.

Costa Rica album is up. It features photos from a trip during the Christmas & New Years in 2002/2003. Great shots from Irazu Volcano, and a resort of Monte Verde, which is known for it's canopy tours and picturesque mountains and forests.

Yahoo is planning to increase the amount of disk space offered for the free email accounts to 1GB. The current quota is 250MB and the increase will match gMail's current one gig quota. The update will come sometime in mid-April.

A new album with photos form Mexico has been added. This is from a trip to Mexico and Costa Rica in December and January 2002-2003. I spent Christmas in Mexico and New Year's in Costa Rica. Mexico trip included beautiful beaches of Oaxaca (for example Mazunte & Huatulco), Ciudad de Oaxaca, Mexico City, Teotihuacan and a few other places around Mexico City.

Tori Amos has a new album out entitled The Beekeeper. It is her eight studio release, written in conjunction with music journalist Ann Powers. The Beekeeper is far away from it's predecessors like Boys for Pele or From the Choirgirl Hotel. The darkness is gone, the sun has come out and the whole album is gleaming even when the tempo slows down. The Beekeeper is an album well suited for a singer/songwriter in her forties, very different than for example Little Earthquakes, which she only could have made in her twenties. A little deliberate and studied, perhaps even a bit too consciously literary and classy, but still ambitious and restless work that builds on her past albums without having to rest on her laurels.

Google's Adsense is about to get some serious competition by Yahoo's new scheme for context sensitive text ads. I say Finally! Adsense has been enjoying virtual monopoly and although it has been fairly reasonable with it’s policies, the innovation and variety of choice can only improve with some competitive pressure. Hopefully the new Yahoo's (and maybe later on even MSN's) product will lower the spread between what the advertisers and publishers are paying. Currently estimated 60%-80% spread of Adwords doesn't sounds like a very attractive payout rate to me. More competition means more options, and there is no doubt that both advertirest and publishers would be glad to see more choices.