Just received word from Mitchell at Chicago Media Action that they’re planning a protest against AT&T as part of a national Day of Media Outrage: In response to dreadful proposed media-related legislation now working its way through Congress, Chicago Media Action, along with organizers in Boston and New York City (and a number of other […]
Archive | May, 2006
Telco Scare Mongering: High-Bandwidth Video Will Clog the Pipes
A story about the looming threat of high-bandwidth video on the internet, authored by AP technology writer Peter Svensson, has been making the rounds of the blogosphere today. In it, a Verizon lobbyist claims that “The plain truth is that today’s access and backbone networks simply do not have the capacity to deliver all that […]
Broadcast Industry Journal on Jon Stewart Mocking Nexstar’s Duane Lammers Critique
Somewhat belatedly, Broadcasting and Cable picks up on the Daily Show taking aim at WTWO’s weather attack ads and Nexstar’s Duane Lammers (by the way, it’s pronounced “lamers,” as in “lame” – “ers”).
Mark Hosler: Creative Commons is “the Sierra Club of Intellectual Property, Negativland is more like Earth Firsters.”
There’s a nice short video interview with Mark Hosler of Negativland at Minnesota Stories talking about the Creative Commons approach to copyright and what he sees as problems with it. Actually, it’s more of a Hosler monologue than an interview, but pretty concise and informative nonetheless. I didn’t know this, but apparently Negativland helped come […]
The SurvivaBall Solution for Global Warming, on Today’s Mediageek Radioshow
On Tuesday a forward-thinking engineer from Halliburton presented the company’s newest invention to help solve the problems associated with global warming, the SurvivaBall: “The SurvivaBall is designed to protect the corporate manager no matter what Mother Nature throws his or her way,” said Fred Wolf, a Halliburton representative who spoke today at the Catastrophic Loss […]