…far, far away, an overdue baby girl was born on this day.
It’s my Birthday day!!!!!!!!!!!!
Other cool things that happened on May 5th:
…a young woman was pregnant with the first of four children. She was more than a week overdue. Concerned, her doctor induced labor, but a strange thing happened: the baby didn’t want to come out.
The baby was so resistant, the doctor used a pair of forceps to pull the baby out, slightly denting the baby’s back and leaving a tiny scar on the baby’s forehead.
Boom! Baby (six pounds, 14 ounces) entered the world on May 5 around 8:30 in the morning. Can’t stop nature, baby.
That’s the way I like telling the birth story. 
Happy Birthday to reluctant-to-be-born me!
Other cool things that happened on May 5th:
It’s Victory Day in Ethiopia, Tango-no-sekku Children’s Day in Japan, Coronation Day in Thailand, and Cinco de Mayo in Mexico!
…to me!
Older and a wee bit wiser (late bloomer).
Special thanks to all the folks on Facebook for the Happy Birthday wishes.
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Since I started blogging about digital music late last year, I’ve heard from readers who say they don’t listen to popular music but find the whole illegal downloading and file sharing debate interesting.
Others have suggested artists and bands I might like, and some said they’ve become fans of artists I blogged about. Some of you have turned me on to new artists and new sounds. I may buy a track or two or three. I rarely buy albums. Rarer still will I buy a physical CD. In fact, I may never buy another CD, unless a favorite band decides to release a new album on CD only.
The point is that in a small way, readers and I have been engaged in “digital discovery.”
Musically
In the digital age, it’s both easy and difficult to find new bands and artists. Let’s take file sharing web sites out of the equation for a moment. If someone suggests an artist or band, and you want to hear the music, all you’d need to do (most of the time) is surf to the artist’s or band’s site and listen to a song. Hopefully, they’ll have at least two songs available for full streaming. If not, the artist or band probably has a MySpace page, where you can listen to full versions of a few songs. In this way, the Internet has made music discovery easy.
Back in the day, people bought music based on what they heard on the radio. If bands (esp. independent) can’t get radio airplay, how do they get their music out there for discovery? They need to promote like crazy, online and offline, and allow users to listen to full versions of their songs.
On the other hand, there are “tens of millions” of music tracks out there. People who create and promote this music are competing with each other for our attention, which is already stretched to capacity. With scarce attention and a seemingly limitless supply of stuff out there (again, thanks to the Internet), finding new artists that we might like is difficult.
