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The first branded Hip Digital-powered sites have been launched, and they are lookin’ fine! Check out the Country Music TV Store and eSounds.ca.

In late 2005, Hip Digital Media Inc. came to mod7 for help in the design of a robust, brand-able online music-delivery system. Working closely with OpenRoad Communications, mod7 led the initial charge into the research, prototyping and modular visual design for this B2B and B2C endeavour and stayed on for Flash application programming and front-end HTML/CSS development.

More is certainly to come.

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Fantomas: wicked cool post-industrial post-modern speed metal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGlKflP7ycE 

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In the wake of his racist barrage captured on stage, Michael Richards has hired a public relations expert, someone who’s hopefully quite adept in the ways of spin. Here’s part of what New York publicist Howard Rubenstein had to say on Richards’ behalf:

“Michael apologized profusely. He wants to heal the tremendous wound that he’s inflicted on the American public, and on the African-American community.”

Apart from the obvious and frightening underlying issues at work here — issues that point to a lingering and deep-seated racist grip still at work in America — it will be interesting to follow this story from this angle, to see how (and, truly, if) Mr. Rubenstein can help dig Richards out of this one.

If, somehow, he actually succeeds, I may never believe anyone in the media ever again…

(Side note: man, are cell phone cameras getting good these days, or what?)

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