Those of you who've chatted with me for more than five minutes know about my interest in music - any kind of music! Needless to say, I was very much intrigued by the following news note which appeared in an early October issue of the Houston Chronicle publication, This Week:
 
 

BPI Communications Inc., parent company of Billboard magazine and the Entertainment News Wire, and Northern Light Technology LLC have announced the creation of the Internet's first music information research engine.

The Billboard Music Search, available through a link on Billboard Online  www.billboard.com  allows visitors to access content from BPI's Entertainment News Wire, articles and archives from Northern Light's collection of over 3,400 publications, and top music Web sites around the world.

Visitors to the site can research thousands of music-related subjects, and narrow their search by source, date, or document type. Northern Light's special classification technology enables users to zero in only on information that is specifically relevant.

"Northern Light has combined its powerful Web directory with its authority as the most comprehensive aggregator anywhere," said John Morgan, BPI's vice president of electronic media. "The result is a targeted music resource on the Web that filters out the fluff."