Burn, Baby Burn!: Not clear why they restricted it to webloggers, but the first round of the Blogger CD Swap is garnering much attention. Basically you put your name into a (digital) hat and draw out five other names at random, each of whom receives a copy of a lovingly crafted CD of summer music you’re going to burn. In return, you receive five such CDs from the people who have drawn your name. Everyone is, of course, oblivious to everyone else’s musical tastes, the beauty of it; perhaps the conceit is that bloggers are all discerning people, so you can’t go wrong? [Read a random assortment of blogs and tell me if you’d agree… –FmH] I’d want to rig the drawing so I got to be one of Chuck Taggart‘s recipients, for sure…

As this page points out, they’ve closed registration for the first round, but other similar swaps are springing up, at Metafilter and the CD Mix of the Month Club and Midsummernight’s Burn. This phenomenon may or may not be “fair use” — there’s a discussion at the Metafilter blink above — but you’d be advised to watch your back for the RIAA. Or just keep using those anonymous P2P networks…

Actually, I would be curious to see postings of the music various participants end up choosing. I’ve already found a few new interesting things from Beck’s iPod.