I came across an ad in Rolling Stone about slotMusic.org, a new music "format" that is being hyped by major labels as "a versatile new physical music format for the 21st Century". In short, the new slotMusic format is a 1 Gig microSD card preloaded with DRM-free mp3s (properly tagged and 320 kBPs) and videos that consumers can load into their phones, mp3 players and computers without limitations, passwords or access to the Internet.
This article appears in Nov 19-25, 2008.