Gleanings: Ravel, Roads, Rainbows.

• The New Yorker: Classical music is prospering in the age of the digital download. Matt Haughey speculates that it may even be the future of the music business.

• The LA Times weighs in with its best albums of 2007 (via Large Hearted Boy).

• Reason Magazine's profile of the worst mayor in America (via Kottke.org).

• The legendary Chelsea Hotel is under new management. No word yet on what this might mean for it's future (via Buzz Anderson).

• My friend Buzz had been all over the world in the last six months. I'm amazed and a little jealous.

• I have downloaded "In Rainbows". Thoughts to come...