Tamara Conniff, founder of The Comet, brings in music industry and social media experts including Justin Bieber’s manager Scooter Braun, Chester French’s DA Wallach and Topspin’s Ian Rogers to advise YouTube music talents on ways to break out online.

Halfway through his set at the Big Chill Festival in England, on August 7, Kanye West proclaimed that he was more hated than Adolf Hitler.

As a way to boost their new cloud service, Amazon.com offered users Lady Gaga’s new album for 99 cents (yes, the entire album) for one day only on May 23. As a result, servers stalled, users were not able to download all the tracks, and angry fans took to Twitter and Facebook to express their chagrin. What does it all mean?

Time to take a look at what happened in the music biz – for the week ending May 9: Lucha VaVoom owns Cinco De Mayo in Los Angeles and Chicago, Warner Music Group gets a buyer and Paula Abdul is back.

Time to take a look at what happened in the music biz – for the week ending April 10: Pia gets booted from “American Idol,” the Grammys cut categories, and Britney Spears scored her sixth No. 1 album.

Time to take a look at what happened in the music biz – for the week ending April 3: the death of legendary club owner Don Hill, Amazon’s controversial cloud service, and Live Nation’s bid for Warners.

Here’s the photo to commemorate the rowdy panel I moderated at SXSW. For the scoop check out my SXSW round-up.

(Photo: Front Row, Chuck La Vallee of Stubhub, me, Brock Jones of Bridgestone Arena. Second Row: Tyler Petersen of Eventbrite and Dan Teree of Ticketfly)

Time to take a look at what happened in the music biz – for the week ending March 20: Michael Robertson’s new disruptive company, Duran Duran, ticketing, buzz bands and more industry musical chairs.

Time to take a look at what happened in the music biz – for the week ending Feb 25, it was all about the Oscars, Cher, Ahmet Zappa and Stubhub.

Time to take a look at what happened in the music biz – for the week ending Feb 4, it was all about EMI, AEG, ticketing, and the Rolling Stones.

Time to take a look at what happened in the music biz the week ending Jan 21 – from “American Idol” to the hottest new restaurant and industry hang to open in Los Angeles.

Facebook has agreed to let MySpace integrate some of its technology. Users can log into their Facebook accounts through MySpace and import their likes and interests to get MySpace entertainment content based on those preferences. It’s so complicated they had to make a demo video.

Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now” sold over 1 million albums in one week – the biggest one-week sales since 2005, aka since the recorded music industry totally collapsed. Why?

I’ve not thought about my grade school years in a long time. Nor have I thought of all the hateful things kids said to me or how I – and what was actually sometimes worse for me – my friends were bullied. I applaud everyone who, in recent months and in light of the tragic deaths caused by bullying, have shared their experiences in hopes of educating people. Here is mine.

Why? Someone please tell me why, the minute a female becomes successful she takes off her clothes! I don’t understand why being half naked, sexed-up and verging on pornographic is pushing the envelope. Keep your clothes on, smile and be beautiful – now that’s daring!”

We’re about to head into the show’s 10th season. The franchise just changed partners from Sony Music to Universal Music Group. The judges table is in total flux. Steven Tyler? J. Lo?  Ratings went down last season. The majority of the idol winners or finalists have been dropped from their label deals. So, what’s the problem?

Pledge Music offers something for everyone – you can even fund a polka/waltz artist’s new release. But is it enough for artists to quit their day job?

For those of us who chart our life based on our favorite songs, finally a guide to help you get to where you’re going.

The social network has added new feature, Twitter Places, which allows users to tag tweets by location. Thank goodness we can let everyone know our exact geographic coordinates at all times. And yes, it’s integrated with Foursquare and Gowalla. Have I mentioned I’m the mayor of the Chevron gas station?

Kickstarter, a consumer pledge driven website, may have helped fund the new Facebook as well as plastic party favors.