Month: June 2001

Wired News reports on the FBI dropping its order for Seattle IMC’s web server logs.

Police Violence in Sweden; Indymedia Reports from the Scene The European Union Summit is underway right now in Gothenberg Sweden, and beginning this morning Swedish police have been attacking protestors and the convergence center set up in Gothenberg. Early reports indicate that the attacks were unrpovoked and that the protestors were entirely non-violent before the…

Indymedia Kicks Ass Seattle IMC announced today that the government has dropped its court order to obtain its web server log records, listing the IP addresses of all contributors and readers during the weekend of the Summit of the Americas, April 20-22. The delivery of the court order on April 21 caused a stir throughout…

Another quick LPAM link: the Ionospheric Messenger #6 has some nice info. It’s part of the Mediumwave Alliance website, which appears to be mostly abandoned since 1998 or so, but has useful stuff nonetheless.

FM Too Crowded? Unlicensed FM too risky? Try Low-power AM Breefree has assembled the start of a low-power AM broadcasting site. The rules for legal unlicensed broadcasting (Part 15) are somewhat more relaxed for the AM dial than FM. This makes it potentially easier to run a station that reaches a decent audience without the…

A DV Editing Box on the Cheap Digital Video Editing has a quickie on a cheap Duron processor based box they built for $350 using a used case that apparently does damn-well at video editing. It’s nice to see that hardware capabilities right now exceed the demands of the software, so that needing to run…

Coverage of Suck & Feed Shutdown: Both the New York Times and Salon have articles with details on the apparent demise of these two. The Times observes that along with Salon, these sites “were seen by many as embodying the democratic promise of the Internet, which would unleash a diversity of voices on the monotone…

The Web Is Still a Volunteer Medium; Web Independents Suck and Feed on Ice I was little dismayed today to find out two of my favorite “content” sites (to use “Internet-economy” jargon), Suck and Feed are–as the Feed editors term it–being put “on ice.” The message from Feed’s editors, dated today, indicates that the ‘zine…

A quick one… if you’re interested in following the assignment of new low-power FM licenses, check out the LPFM Station Database.

FCC Crackdown on Indecency? The FCC is at it again — this time the Commission has levied a fine against a Colorado Springs radio station for playing the Eminem song “The Real Slim Shady.” The twist here is that the fine is for playing the edited version of the song, with its rampant dirty words…