Archive | July, 2001

The Problem with Alternative Radio on Shortwave: WBCQ

The Problem with Alternative Radio on Shortwave: WBCQ Shortwave radio station WBCQ is one of the 20 or so broadcast shortwave stations in the US, and amongst those one of only a few that aren’t exclusively religious or evangelical. Started by pioneering radio pirate Allan Weiner, who took to the seas with Radio New York […]

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DIY: Home Real-Time Video Editing

DIY: Home Real-Time Video Editing Tom’s Hardware has a very comprehensive review of the Matrox RT2500 digital video editing system. It seems like a good system to consider if you want to do more complex projects than possible with just a plain ol’ firewire card.

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KOPN Hangs in There: A Small Community Radio Station Struggles to Survive in Mid-Missouri

KOPN Hangs in There: A Small Community Radio Station Struggles to Survive in Mid-Missouri John Tarleton writes at his Cybertraveler site, “KOPN is one of the nation’s oldest listener-sponsored, community-access radio stations. In the late ’70s it flourished as the center of Mid-Missouri’s alternative universe. However, by 1997 KOPN was on the verge of financial […]

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Very Independent Media

Very Independent Media Global Indymedia features links to reports and information on the the North American Street Newspaper Association gathering in San Francisco. Street Newspapers, like Chicago’s Streetwise, are published by people who are currently or have been homeless, which they frequently sell on the streets to help earn subsistence. Such newspapers are also frequently […]

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