>>> Xpn.org will be silencing its Internet radio streams all day as well as broadcasting a few minutes of silence at 4pm on Tuesday (tomorrow) in protest of the Copyright Royalty Board‘s proposed royalty hike that would, in essence, put many of your favorite Internet radio stations out of business in the process. The silence is part of a nationwide Day Of Silence Protest. And since we here at Philebrity see this as an auxiliary Net Nuetrality issue, you should also know that we will be shutting down as well in solidarity with our friends at XPN as well as all of the great Net radio stations to enjoy, whether it’s G-Town in Germantown or KCRW out in Santa Monica. Find more information about all of this at SaveNetRadio.org. [SaveNetRadio]
>>> The Dog Ate My John Grogan Book continues: This time, his agent’s siren call to disgruntled (read: all) writers and booklovers makes it all the way up the wonkmedia rungs to Slate. Nice work, Bonnie! [Slate]
>>> And in case you missed it the other day, Steve Volk — otherwise known as the only consistently strong-good staff writer the Philadelphia Weekly had left — is off to Philadelphia Magazine. At PhillyMag, Volk will reside in a cryogenic cooling case, only to be woken once a month for six hours in which he will crank out the cover story and then be immediately refrozen; whereupon, Larry Platt and the crew then take up the arduous task of rewriting the story five times or until they think it’s good enough for Men’s Health, whichever comes first. [DN]
BONUS ROUND: Just for shits and giggles, check out this tool from CareerBuilder.com, talking about how he’s not fucking scared of Craigslist. Not him. No way. No empty rallying cries here. Nosiree. [PaidContent]

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