So far it's been a busy month for online music....

Broadband users have stopped paying for their AOL accounts at a rapid clip, Jonathan Miller, AOL chairman and CEO, told analysts at Merrill Lynch's Media and Entertainment Conference....

Just as MySpace prepares to start selling music downloads, Universal Music Group is hinting that it will sue the social networking site for copyright infringement.

NBC thinks it's found a way to tap ino the online video market.

One of the biggest Web 2.0 stunts is hurtling towards its conclusion, as whoever's behind YouTube's newest starlet, the vlogger "LonelyGirl 15," appears poised to come clean.

Well, that was fast. Thursday night, two days after Facebook sparked an immediate and unprecedented user backlash with the introduction of RSS feeds, company executives came to their senses and said they would modify the new feature to give users more control over the feeds.

This week Facebook made a significant change without first informing users, triggering complaints and protests by hundreds of thousands of the site's members.

Well, all things come to an end eventually, right? On this day, the jig is up for this here Minute, as my tenure writing the column draws to a close.

Google this weekend decided to turn over records to the Brazilian government about users of Orkut, the company's social-networking service that has found a large fan base in Brazil. Or at least, that had a large Brazilian fan base before agreeing to roll over.

On this getaway Friday, the great day before the long Labor Day holiday, our minds turn to the approach of fall, new starts, fresh beginnings, back-to-school, and career goals. Notably then, you might be interested to know that the Monster Employment Index, a gauge of U.S. online job demand, rebounded in August as online recruitment rose.