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Here’s a music-festival montage set to Snoopy’s theme music. Mash-up credit goes to my colleague Matt Jessell.

Careful readers of ChasNote may have noticed a post yesterday that went up, and then came down (”unpublished” as they say), in the blink of an eye. It was a link to register for the Outside Lands music festival in San Francisco next week — for free. I posted it before I realized that it was FM’s VIP registration link, intended for my use only as part of FM’s partnership with Outside Lands to run the CrowdFire pavilion and website. Oops!

Well it turns out ChasNote does have at least one careful reader, Stacy Segal-Reichlin, and for that, Stacy, I thank you. You earned that free ticket.

Here’s my entry in Graffiti’s MUSIC! drawing contest, sponsored by Microsoft and linked to the social media music site CrowdFire, also sponsored by Microsoft. When you submit your drawing, you can immediately upload it to CrowdFire for a chance to win goodies.

Cut me some slack, I drew that with my thumb on my Mac’s trackpad.

FM’s CrowdFire, the social media music site sponsored by Microsoft, wants the graphic-design set to feel welcome, too. Hence this week’s MUSIC! Graffiti contest:

Here’s how the Graffiti crew explains CrowdFire:

Today, in partnership with Microsoft, FM launched music-oriented social media site CrowdFire.

From MediaWeek:

“In conjunction with the launch CrowdFire, the companies have announced that several kiosks will be placed at the upcoming Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival in San Francisco, Calif. on Aug. 22-24, where attendees will be able to produce and upload their own video, audio and text accounts of the events, in what will serve as a mass test run for the new site. During the event, video screens will display a real time ‘mashup’ of the crowd-produced content.”