With group-buying Web sites, getting more people to join in on a deal gets you a better deal.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt did one of his patented throat-clearers in an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal today and it pretty much begs for translation. Well, BoomTown shall not tarry from the task of decoding the extra-long rumination from the head of Google, who was responding to the recent spate of aggressive attacks by traditional media publishers. They have blamed the search giant for everything from their current business woes to the destruction of journalism to Tiger Woods's dicey marital troubles. Okay, not that! But the rest for sure.

by Geoffrey Fowler TuneUp Media and MusicBrainz Picard aim to clean up and properly label personal digital-music collections.