Archive | June, 2002

Zine Contact Info for Today’s mediageek radio show

Zine Contact Info for Today’s mediageek radio show These are the ‘zines my guest Anita and I talked about on today’s mediageek radio show: Words Soak Up Life: A Reading Compilation Zine. Available from Celia C. Perez, 2527 N. California Ave., Chicago, IL 60647. $3-$5 on a sliding scale; pay what you can. All proceeds […]

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Alt. Weeklies Suffer, Shutter

Alt. Weeklies Suffer, ShutterThe Nose, of Portland, OR’s Willamette Week, notes that alternative weeklies are “running scared,” based upon his experiences at this year’s Association of Alternative Newsweeklies meeting in Madison, WI. Ad revenue is down and the pressure to mainstream and corporatize is strong. In a related note, Dayton, OH’s alternative weekly, the Impact […]

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Per CNN:”Movie studios and consumer-electronics

Per CNN:“Movie studios and consumer-electronics companies are close to reaching an agreement that would protect digital-television broadcasts from being copied and traded Napster-style over the Internet, negotiators said on Monday.” According to the article the copy protection method sounds similar to SCMS which is used to control direct-digital copying of music. In that system CDs […]

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