Just learned of another new affiliate to the radio show. Berkshire Community Radio, WBCR-LP 97.7 FM in Great Barrington, MA, has been carrying the program, bringing the number of broadcast affiliates to 12. Not bad, considering my main means of promotion is just this website. If you work with a non-profit, non-commercial, community or public […]
Archive | June, 2007
Vivoleum…. is made out of… PEOPLE!
The Yes Men struck again. This time, Big Oil was their target, hitting GO-EXPO, Canada’s largest oil conference, at Stampede Park in Calgary, Alberta today. Posing as ExxonMobil and National Petroleum Council (NPC) representatives, they presented their plan for what to do with all the human casualties that will result from the energy policies of […]
Real’s New Survival Technique is Stream Ripping and Fair Use
I have no idea how I missed the big announcement at the end of May that Real’s next media player will feature the ability to record media streams in a whole host of formats — most notably, YouTube’s Flash video content. (As a tangent, the way I found out is kind of interesting — it’s […]
The Early Days of Web Radio
Jose at Arcane Radio Trivia briefly traces the beginning of internet radio, which is now nearly 14 years old (older than DVDs, in fact). However, I do have one addendum/correction. Jose says that KPIG was the first commercial station to broadcast on the web, starting in 1995. But there was a station here in ‘geek-land, […]