Month: November 2001
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Radio Free Conscience News
Radio Free Conscience News I posted a transcript of the news updates portion of my biweekly radio show to the Urbana-Champaign IMC site. Click here to read it.
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According to this thread on
According to this thread on the Free Radio Network LPFM Grapevine, EBay sent an e-mail to a seller that indicates that it is now prohibiting the sale of low-power FM transmitters on its site. Although when I just did a search for “FM transmitter” moments ago it returned several auctions for equipment useful for micropower…
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Hey, the latest issue of
Hey, the latest issue of Micro-Film, the Champaign-Urbana, IL based journal of personal filmmaking, is out. I’ve got an article in this issue which features an interview with Kevin Keyser, the documentary filmmaker behind FREE RADIO. In addition to my article this issue is chock full of other good stuff that’ll keep you reading: indie…
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Counterpoint: On the Madison-IMC site
Counterpoint: On the Madison-IMC site Wankstor X. Muzzlebutt provides a far more critical analysis of the Wired article on the CNN-Indymedia story from yesterday. I agree with Wansktor’s overall analysis — I admit I didn’t think too hard about the article before. Mostly, I judged the article against the typical standars of the mainstream media,…
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Copyright, Fair Use, Free Speech
SiliconValley.com asks “Whatever happened to fair use?” and provides a nice overview of the issues at play between the record industry, which wants to control exactly when and how you listen to their product, and the listener, who just wants to pay $15 and be left alone to listen, rip and burn that CD however…
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Wired News reports on CNN.com
Wired News reports on CNN.com banning the word/s “Indymedia” and its variants from its chat rooms. I had read the initial story on Indymedia but somehow it didn’t register with me — I’m glad to see Wired follow up on it and take the issue seriously. I think it is interesting and laudable that several…