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Month: March 2002

  • The BCC asks, “What if the net was as free as air?”; Sirius Satellite Radio Says: WAH! Stop It!

    The BCC asks, “What if the net was as free as air?”; Sirius Satellite Radio Says: WAH! Stop It! The BBC’s article covers a wireless freenet project in London that has over 400 nodes providing wireless Internet access throughout the city. It’s similar to wireless freenet projects going on all over the US, except that…

  • Newsbytes reports that Sen. Hollings

    Newsbytes reports that Sen. Hollings is threatening to cut funding to the Federal Trade Commission in response to that agency’s deal with the Dept. of Justice that puts the DoJ in charge of media merger oversight. He’s pissed because the deal was originally forged in secret, outside of Congress’ watchful eye, and because the DoJ…

  • The communications industry mag, Broadcasting

    The communications industry mag, Broadcasting and Cable has a brief mention of the planned protest at the FCC this weekend by the Angels of the Public Interest.

  • Savage Indie Media Collage: Guerrilla

    Savage Indie Media Collage: Guerrilla News Network presents an amazing 9/11 news coverage video collage. Juxataposition and recontextualization reveal the patent absurdity of it all. (via boingboing)

  • A Brief Meta-Blogging Indulgence

    I’m not sure whether the whole weblog phenomenon is ready to implode, eat itself alive, or if there really is a “independent publishing revolution” at hand. Regardless, there is a new on-line ‘zine called Microcontent News that might be worth checking out, if you give half a shit. It takes aim at “low-cost content formats…

  • Last Friday’s edition of the

    Last Friday’s edition of the mediageek radio show is now online. It’s the first edition of the show as official in it’s new Friday 5:30 PM slot. I had to turn it around in quick fashion since I didn’t find out that I got it until Wednesday. Anyway, click here to listen in RealAudio. It’s…

  • Twelve Days to Register Last Comments on the Digital Radio Disaster

    Twelve Days to Register Last Comments on the Digital Radio Disaster As a virtual one-man army to save radio broadcasting as we know it, Christopher Maxwell has been keeping tabs on IBOC digital radio at digitaldisaster.org and the disaster it could spell for small broadcasters and FM radio. In short, the digital radio plan that…

  • Monday Morning Update This weekend

    Monday Morning Update This weekend the site was really slow, I couldn’t even ftp in to do updates. But now things seem to be normal again. The March 8 edition of the mediageek radio show is now on-line is realaudio. It features some tasty news updates, some words from the angels of the public interest,…

  • Mediageek Radio Show a Go

    Mediageek Radio Show a Go Last night the WEFT Programming Committee approved the mediageek radio show to air Fridays at 5:30 PM on the station, at 90.1 FM in Champaign, IL. The station doesn’t netcast, but I’ve been trying hard to upload the shows to this site. That said, given my schedule it will take…

  • It looks like Zimbabwe president

    It looks like Zimbabwe president Mugave has stolen the country’s election. Although this is making the US news, to get a perspective informed by the people of Zimbabwe, look to the Zimbabwe Indymedia Center.